Not Listening by Papa Roach

Album: Getting Away With Murder (2004)

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Lead singer Jacoby Shaddix said of this song: "Lyrically, it's about looking into media and what's going on in the world today and it's like it's all half-truths. It's never the entire story. It's filtered. They're saying, 'Let's feed America what we think they should eat.' Question the media. People need to do that. This political s--t that's going down right now is all shady, and people are okay with it, and I'm not. People either ignore it on purpose, or they've just been hoodwinked into believing that what's going on now is the right thing to be doing." >>>
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Tim - Pittsburgh, PA

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Gabby from Seymour, InNot Listening Also Appeared In One Of The Resident Evil Apocalypse Trailers
Jesse from Falls, PaNot Listening appeared on another video game: Nascar 2005: Chase for the Cup. One of the best songs on the game, in my opinion.
Eren from Istanbul, TurkeyThis song also appeared at the video game: Flatout 2 , loved listening to the song while smashing other cars!
Melissa from Toledo, OhI love Papa Roach. They always know the best things to write and sing about! They rock!
Maria from Nowhere, Otheri love it when people write about politics, especially the american government controlling the nation by controlling the media. They control people's thoughts and opinions. So yea its great that a cool band like papa roach is trying to reach out to people and tell them that

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