They don't care about us (video musical)

They Don't Care About Us
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Video musical | Bandera de los Estados Unidos de América Estados UnidosBandera de Brasil Brasil
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Esta canción fue lanzada en enero de 1995 y grabada en junio de 1989.
Estreno1995
GuiónMichael Jackson
DirectorSpike Lee
Producción GeneralMichael Jackson
PaisBandera de los Estados Unidos de América Estados UnidosBandera de Brasil Brasil

They Don't Care About Us (Ellos no se preocupan por nosotros). Video musical que se lanzó al mercado en 1996, interpretado por Michael Jackson.

Descripción

La canción estuvo acompañada de dos videos musicales dirigidos por Spike Lee. El primero fue filmado en dos lugares de Brasil , en Pelourinho , el centro histórico de la ciudad de Salvador, y en una favela de Río de Janeiro llamada Doña Marta ,donde las autoridades estatales habían tratado de prohibir toda producción por temor. el video dañaría su imagen, el área y las perspectivas de Río de Janeiro como escenario de los Juegos Olímpicos de 2004 . Aún así, los residentes de la zona estaban felices de ver al cantante, esperando que sus problemas fueran visibles para una audiencia más amplia. El segundo video fue filmado en una prisión y contenía secuencias de video de múltiples referencias a abusos contra los derechos humanos .

Comercialmente, la canción se convirtió en un éxito entre los diez primeros en todos los países europeos y el número uno en Alemania durante tres semanas. En los Estados Unidos, las estaciones de radio se mostraron reacias a reproducir la controvertida composición; Sin embargo, logró alcanzar el número 30 en el Billboard Hot 100 .

La canción se mezcló con partes de canciones como "Privacy" (del álbum Invincible ) y " Tabloid Junkie ", y se lanzó en el álbum Immortal , en noviembre de 2011.

Letra

Tema en inglés


Skin head, dead head
Everybody's gone bad
Situation, aggravation, everybody's allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Bang bang, shot dead, everybody's gone mad
All I want to say is that they don't really care about us
All I want to say is that they don't really care about us


Beat me, hate me, you can never break me
Will me, thrill me, you can never kill me
Do me, sue me, everybody do me
Kick me, kike me
Don't you black or white me
All I want to say is that they don't really care about us
All I want to say is that they don't really care about us


Tell me what has become of my life
I have a wife and two children who love me
And I am the victim of police brutality
I'm tired of being the victim of hate
You're ripping me off my pride, oh, for God's sake
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy, set me free


Skin head, dead head
Everybody's gone bad
Trepidation, speculation, everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Black male, black mail
Throw your brother in jail
All I want to say is that they don't really care about us
All I want to say is that they don't really care about us



Tell me what has become of my rights
Am I invisible? because you ignore me
Your proclamation promised me free liberty
I'm tired of being the victim of shame
They're throwing me in a class with a bad name
I can't believe this is the land from which I came
You know I really do hate to say it
The government don't want to see
But if Roosevelt was living, he wouldn't let this be, no, no


Skin head, dead head
Everybody's gone bad
Situation, speculation, everybody litigation
Beat me, bash me, you can never trash me
Hit me, kick me, you can never get me
All I want to say is that they don't really care about us
All I want to say is that they don't really care about us


Some things in life they just don't want to see
But if Martin Luther was living, he wouldn't let this be


Skin head, dead head
Everybody's gone bad
Situation, segregation, everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Kick me, kike me
Don't you wrong or right me


All I want to say is that they don't really care about us
All I want to say is that they don't really care about us
All I want to say is that they don't really care about us
All I want to say is that they don't really care about us

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