Killing in the Name, by Rage Against the Machine: analysis, translation and context of music
Killing in the Name is a music by rap metal by North American band Rage Against the Machine, released in 1991. Or first single The group reached a great international success and became one that marked the last decades.
Crossed through the rebellion and the hair, he denounced, it is about a protest music that police brutality, abuse of power and racist violence in the United States of America.
Original lyrics Killing in the Name
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses (x4)
Ugh!
Killing in the name of... (x2)
Now you do what they told ya (x4)
And now you do what they told ya (x8)
Well now you do what they told ya!
Those who died are justified
For wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
You justify those that died
By wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses (x4)
Ugh!
Killing in the name of... (x2)
Now you do what they told ya (x4)
And now you do what they told ya
(Now you're under control) And now you do what they told ya (x7)
Those who died are justified
For wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
You justify those that died
By wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites
Come on!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me (x16)
Motherfucker!
Ugh!
Analysis and translation of the lyrics
First verses
Some two that are not able to
São you same that queimam cruzes
Logo our first verses gives the letter and it is evident that Rage Against Machine is failing to do so. aggressive behavior of police. Denounce that the agents give authority to you the same that broke the social order, instead of compliance or seu dever.
There exists here uma Direct referral to Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist terrorist group that has ruined the United States for decades. Among the numerous crimes, ficaram conheted by burning crosses during a night, as a form of intimidation.
A letter explains the proximity that exists, a little throughout the world, between some members of the police and military forces and the fascist and authoritarian ideas. Comparing police rape to lynch mobs in the Klan, the composition shows the two as being related, motivated by the same hate.
Ou seja, or what I say here is that some individuals who should be responsible for maintaining peace and in order to defend racist and violent positions.
The United States, a country whose history is stained by racial segregation policiesThere will always be indications of the involvement of members of the army police and the Klan.
Either group places or "finger na ferida" and appoints to inherent hypocrisy, also extending criticism to political class, government years and society itself. This is a patent in the original version of the lyrics, as a possible set of words existing in "work forces", which opens two senses.
Apart from "labor forces" (police, military), this expression can be read as a reference to "labor forces", conveying a message that the North American himself was racist.
With just two verses, the band succeeds in failing in an eximic way about the segregation and the preconceptions Raciais that ficaram very marked in the history of the country and even transversed years several sectors of the society.
Hook
Killing em nome of ...
Or more interesting in this passage, perhaps, that the fica in open, as a reflection: killing em nome de que? By letter it is clear that um assassinato is always an assassinato, it does not matter in the name of what this crime is committed.
Assim, music is questioning the ways and motives hair quais we get used to normalize and justify violence.
Pré-refrão
And now you face what they will send you
And now you face what they will send you
But now you face what will I send you
So now you face what they will send you
A repetition of this idea intends to call attention to what it looks like, as it is tempted to awaken it and or to force it to face reality.
In the middle of the atmosphere it peels police violence and the way it is, or poorly, is repressed when it questions the authorities, leads to submissiveness, to obedienceblind.
Refrão
Those who morreram are justified
By usarem or distinctive, eles são os brancos escolhidos
You justify those who morreram
By usarem or distinctive, eles são os brancos escolhidos
Here, or lyrical subject tries to express or point of view two aggressors, or way in which they think and falam: acham that they are certain, defend that the assassinations are justified.
Prove that you are superiors, that the police badge and / or your social status make you two "escorts". Ou seja, I do not found nem acham that suas ações devam be questioned hair fato de serem cidadãos brancos e terem positions of power.
Pré-refrão
And now you face what they will send you
(You are on control)
Or little subject lembra or public that is living on it or domain repressive and violent authority figures, where society's preconceptions proliferate.
Or I mean that the geram of us cidadãos ends up raising them to a passive conduct and little criticism, which normalizes violence and oppression.
Or a group that breaks this cycle of intimidation and physical assault, through the complaint and the answer.
Final verses
Foda-se, não vou fazer or what do you send
Rage Against the Machine ends a music com um derradeiro I defy authorities instituted, which rejeitam e nas quais not confiam.
Your message from revolt and rebellion, you are inviting or your public to question the rules and confront the police forces about certain violent and discriminatory acts.
Directly faking with these racist and aggressive agents, denying their power, even insulting them.
Historical context and meaning of music
Killing in the Name It was composted 6 months after the case of Rodney King, an African-American taxi driver who was sent to the Los Angeles police in March 1991.
Accused of being drunk driving, he was arrested and attacked by various agents, who ended up being acquitted. Injustice da decision provoked fúria dos locais, giving rise to three days of conflicts between the citizens and the police, in April 1992.
It is, therefore, about a protest against police brutality and the serious means of intimidation and demonstration of power. A layer of the band's music album also has a very powerful symbolic charge.
This is a photograph of Thích Quang Duc, or a Buddhist monk imitating himself, on behalf of President Ngô Dình Diêm forbidding the practice of Buddhism outside of Vietnam.
A capa do disco, assim like his songs, mainly Killin in the Name promovem mensagens de endurance to any price. Prove that it requires constant disobedience and questioning, against the authoritarian system.
By irony of fate, it arose to pageantry that music was used by the North American government to torture the prisoners of Guantánamo.
In this respect, or vocalist of the band, Zack de la Rocha, declared in an interview:
It is very painful that a music that was written about the liberation of the body and the spirit is used as a device of medieval açoite.
About Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine was a band of rock North-American, formed in 1991, in California. Or it does not seem to me to translate the spirit of this work: "Fúria contra a Machine", ou seja, or system.
His music will be characterized by being full of criticism and social and political denunciations, marking his geração. Killing in the Name It was the greatest success of the band over its decades, continuing today in Trump's America.
Conheça also
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- Alive Music by Pearl Jam
- Music Hurt by Johnny Cash
- Music Minha Alma (A Paz que Eu Não Quero), d'O Rappa
- Music Que País É Este, by Legião Urbana
