AJJ - Good Luck Everybody
Something of a crowd-pleaser, despite the dark subject matter.
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A track built on graphic violence and moral collapse. AJJ narrates a sequence of murders with methodical brutality, the voice detached and almost conversational as it describes killing a family and then turning on the survivor. The lyrics are deliberately transgressive, designed to unsettle rather than entertain. What saves the song from mere shock value is its theological preoccupation. The narrator, having committed these acts, contemplates damnation and the possibility of heaven with a kind of grim dark humour. The repetition of "If I don't go to Hell when I die I might go to Heaven" becomes both a confession and a joke at the expense of moral certainty. The song refuses easy judgment; it presents violence and its aftermath as a problem of conscience rather than a narrative to be resolved.
"Bad Bad Things" is a track by AJJ, from the album People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World, released 11th September 2007. Full lyrics are available below.
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