After Ever After

I came across this video and thought this was a really funny and creative way to express political views on certain (somewhat) current events…I’ve provided the link to the video and analyzed some of the lyrics…enjoy!

After Ever After Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diU70KshcjA&feature=kp

AFTER EVER AFTER - LYRICS


         Song by: Paint

If you've ever wondered why


Disney's tales all end in lies


Here's what happened after all their dreams came true



Ariel


I loved being princess down in -- this beautiful ocean blue


But mermaids are going missing -- they end up in someone's stew


So just try to put yourself in -- to somebody else's gills


You're killing my ecosystem -- with fishing and oil spills


Thank you BP, thank you BP


The British are killing, oil is spilling


Now I can't see... MY EYES!


Chinamen feast on Flounder's fins


Plus the Japanese killed all my whale friends


Oceans are browning, I think I'm drowning


Thanks to BP


YOU SUCK!



Jasmine


Hey, I'm OK, but I'm slightly scared


My husband's a mark for the War on Terror


Aladdin was taken by the CIA


We're not Taliban


You've got the wrong man


In Guantanamo Bay


Prince Ali, where could he be, drowning in wawa


Interrogation from the nation of the "free"


Bin Laden's taken the fall


We're not trained pilots at all


Jafar went crazy and no one put up a fuss


We're for freedom, Genie can vouch for us


Bush was crazy, Obama's lazy, al-Qaeda's not in this country


Set free my Prince Ali



Belle


A horror! A horror! A horror, a horror, a horror!*

This town's gone wild since I married Adam**

They think I'm going straight to hell


But the charges laid on me


Of bestiality


Could wind up getting me thrown in a cell


No, I'm overrun by mad men


I hear they plan to burn me at the stake


They legit believe I'm Satan


And now I hear that PETA's gonna take my beast away



Pocahontas


After John Smith traveled back to England


I helped my people cultivate the fields


More English, French, and Spaniards came to visit


And they greeted us with guns and germs and steel


They forced us into unknown lands of exile


They pillaged, raped, and left us all for dead


So now I'm far more liberal with a weapon


When I separate their bodies from their heads
(Wait – what?!)

Have you ever held the entrails of an English guy?


Or bit the beating hearts of Spanish men?


Can you shoot an arrow in some French guy's eyeball?


Can you paint with the red colors in these men


I can murder if I please


Cause I'm dying of disease


I can paint with the red colors in these men



Thanks to BP


Where's Prince Ali?


Bestiality


I've got STDs

(Wa wa, wa wa wa wa) [Disney theme song]

*Censored for educational purposes

**the Beast

Analysis:

“Thank you BP” - A reference to British Petroleum, an English oil company responsible for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, which is considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. After the Deepwater Horizon oil rig sank to the sea floor, an oil gusher continued to flow for 87 days before it was finally capped, resulting in the expulsion of an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil. Some reports indicate that the well continues to leak.

“Chinamen feast on Flounder’s fins” – China accounts for one third of the world’s reported fish production, and it’s reported harvest (in ponds, lakes, and tanks)  in 2005 was more than 10 times that of the second place nation – 32.4 million tons to India’s 2.8 million tons. IChina’s wild fish catch (from rivers, lakes, and the sea) was 17.1 million tonnes in 2005, compared to the U.S.’s reported 4.9 million tonnes. (1 tonne = 1,000 kg = 2,204.6 lbs)

“Japanese killed all my whale friends” – A reference to the Japanese whaling industry, which began in the 12^th century and is still going on today. Currently, Japanese whaling is conducted by the Institute of Cetacean Research under the title of ‘scientific whale hunts’, after which the whale meat acquired from these hunts is sold in shops and restaurants. These hunts are a source of conflict between pro- and anti-whaling organizations today, and some consider the Japanese research program to be a thinly disguised commercial whaling operation.

“Guantanamo Bay” -  Referencing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp that is a U.S. military prison located in a naval base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. It was initially set up in 2002 to detain, interrogate, and prosecute dangerous prisoners for war crimes. Detainees captured in the “War on Terror” (terrorism) were transported to the prison, many of them from Afghanistan and later Iraq. In 2009, President Obama signed an order to suspend proceedings for 120 days and shut down the facility for that year. Later in 2011, he signed the Defense Authorization Bill, which placed restrictions on the transfer of prisoners to the mainland or other foreign countries, impeding the closure of the facility. As of March 2014, 154 detainees remain at Guantanamo. (“Drowning in wawa” refers to waterboarding, an interrogation tactic used by the “nation of the free”, aka the United States.)

Both Belle and Pocahontas’s sections are pretty obvious…if you really need an explanation go to these links:

Belle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beastiality

Pocahontas: Covered in the AP reviews, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States