The Cure - Killing an Arab live @ Royal Albert Hall, London, 28 March 2014
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- Опубліковано 28 бер 2014
- The Cure - Killing an Arab live @ Royal Albert Hall, London, 28 March 2014 (Teenage Cancer Trust)
More footage of the nice pogo in the audience than of the band, sorry for that, but it was great to see! :)
Excellent, can see myself in the melee at the front with a whole bunch of other misbehaving middle aged men
fyi....not a racist song as some think, it's actually Robert's 'summary' or 'expression' of Camus Book 'The Stranger'
Only someone looking to justify their own hatred would interpret this as racist.
"One of the themes of the song is that everyone's existence is pretty much the same. Everyone lives, everyone dies, our existences are the same. It's as far from a racist song as you can write. It seems though that no one can get past the title and that's incredibly frustrating.
"The fact is it's based on a book that's set in France and deals with the problems of the Algerians, so it was only geographical reasons why it was an Arab and not anyone else." - Robert Smith
The song could just as easily be "Killing Another" rather than "an Arab" and indeed has been performed that way at some shows.
hotspur666 You completely missed the point. He is discussing existentialism, which is the main theme of the book this song was inspired from. At that point in time, the French and the Arabs were the most populated ethnicities in Algeria. Thus, he's justifying why they would use an Arab specifically, because The Cure wanted to depict the book as accurately as they could in the song. Way to assume he's a nazi communist.
+hotspur666 R O
TheAustinsMusic " Nazi communist? Tautology.