{"id":986436,"date":"2023-02-08T14:23:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shadowproof.com\/?p=224268"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:23:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:23:43","slug":"protest-song-of-the-week-found-by-fucked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/08\/protest-song-of-the-week-found-by-fucked-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest Song Of The Week: \u2018Found\u2019 By Fucked Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Originally posted at Ongoing History of Protest Music<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canadian hardcore punk band Fucked Up recently released their sixth full-length album “One Day.” As denoted by the album’s title, each band member committed to a self-imposed time frame of 24 hours to write and record their contributions.

Compared to their previous ambitious standards, the album<\/a> is more straightforward but still carries considerable weight. It also features a few poignant social commentaries.

“Broken Little Boys” explores the generational cycle of toxic masculinity. Another song, “Found,” which is Shadowproof’s protest song of the week, chronicles how Indigenous people have been displaced and
murdered to build highways and \u201ctemples of police and landlords.” All for the worship of money.

The track was inspired by guitarist Mike Haliechuk\u2019s experiences living on one of the oldest streets in
North America and his observations of the tragic consequences of colonization and gentrification.

\u201cI used to live on Davenport Road, which is one of the oldest streets in North America and has been a
First Nations trail for thousands of years, running along the north shore of Lake Iroquois, which receded
after the last ice age,\u201d Haliechuk recalled<\/a>. \u201cJust to the east was Taddle Creek, which was
buried underground during the 19th century to build the streets I walk on. I thought about gentrification
a lot, watching little stores get swallowed up by big buildings until I realized I am one of those big
buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haliechuk continued, \u201cThe name of the song comes from the Shadi Bartsch translation of\u00a0The Aeneid<\/em>,
where she points out that the words \u2018found\u2019 and \u2018stab\u2019 open and close the book, which are two
meanings for the same Greek verb. That discovery is actually conquest, and that settlement is always
violence. And that any story I try to tell myself about the place I found to live can only be a story to
justify the expansion of one people across the world of another.\u201d

The lyrics, \u201cThere I stood on the shore. Of a story we don\u2019t tell anymore. All the names were erased.
Buried under a land that my people stole,\u201d connect to repeated talks of a reconciliation taking place within Canada.

An essential part of the process is an acknowledgment that Canada is “a country found on a genocide”. It is time to discontinue the whitewashing of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to Fucked Up’s “Found” off their album “One Day.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n