We are fortunate that we could come here…. WE were lucky, because we had a place to escape to. I often say, ask us!!! The immigrants… the Cubans, the Venezuelans, the North Koreans, anyone from the former Soviet block… Talk to us and we will tell you …. Pretty much the standard in all dictatorships and totalitarian regimes (I had the displeasure of growing up in one) hence the reference. When the rules are made for you but those who made them are exempt. The mask segments are about hypocrisy on the highest level. Just as I prefaced it: ‘We as artists, have a unique opportunity to portray and ridicule the absurd to prevent it from *becoming* reality.’ If I must explain this: The whole video is in the frame work of fiction, a dystopian nightmare of one of the founding fathers – right before he signs the constitution. The scene in question is not about the masks… it’s NOT an Anti-Mask message… in fact you can go to right now and buy some cool ones. “As much as some *news sites* used ‘anti-mask’ as a clickbait title (And I must applaud the capitalist in them or I myself would be a hypocrite) Let’s make this crystal clear: In a fictional story, Amongst shopping cart zombies, Tide Pod eating fat superheroes and all the other metaphors, why would anyone think the mask scene isn’t one. Update: Guitarist Zoltan Bathory has issued a lengthy statement denying that there is an anti-mask message in the “Living the Dream” video: It’s time to pass the baton and move on to new challenges.” “I’ve been in bands my entire life and I feel like I’ve done all the good that I can here. “As far the reason I’m leaving… well, there really isn’t just one,” Hook said in a press release. Hook had to leave the band’s February tour early due to complications from a recent gallbladder surgery, and has now made his departure permanent.Įditor's Pick Five Finger Death Punch announce new album and US tour, unleash new song “Inside Out”: Stream The song “Living the Dream” is from FFDP’s most recent album, F8, which came out in February of this year. Earlier this week, Five Finger Death Punch officially parted ways with longtime guitarist Jason Hook, who has been replaced by British guitarist Andy James. We as artists, however, have a unique opportunity to portray and ridicule the absurd to prevent it from becoming reality.” So we are living in the manipulators’ paradise, where liars and hypocrites run unscathed, the news are just opinions, politics are a blood sport, and facts are determined by consensus instead of the truth. The bad news is that now everyone has a voice. The good news is that now everyone has a voice. The growing pains of a civilization that without the necessary spiritual enlightenment, arrived a bit early to a level of technology where everyone is connected. This idea is now under siege and certain events are starting to remind me of the things many of us came here to escape… It’s not a ‘left against right’ problem but an evolutionary problem. “America is a beautiful idea that draws immigrants like myself from all over the world to the promised land of equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Is it all a big right-wing metaphor? Outspoken Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory released a statement that doesn’t overtly say that the video is anti-mask, but his political opinion is thinly veiled:
In the end, it turns out it’s all just the premonition of one of the Founding Fathers, who wakes from the dream right as he’s about to sign the U.S. The video then cuts to a television news item on “The Great Awakening”, and climaxes with a number of unmasked patriotic Americans, the members of Five Finger Death Punch included, being mowed down with gunfire. “Exempt” loses it and unleashes her gimps, who cinematically destroy the ice cream truck. When a masked ice cream truck worker is spotted with an actual American flag, Mrs. The American flag is seen in the video with the stars replaced by the hammer and sickle, as well. There are also zombies hoarding toilet paper and Pulp Fiction-like gimps who are walked on a chain by the “Exempt” leader. A sinister female leader who gives out the masks doesn’t have to wear one, as her button reads “Exempt”. In the video, civilians who wear masks are given a button that says “Compliant” emblazoned with a hammer and sickle (a longtime communist symbol). One aspect of the video appears to take an anti-mask stance, although there’s some ambiguity in the band’s intentions. Five Finger Death Punch have released a music video for the single “Living the Dream” that is rife with political symbolism.
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