Strength Through Music - "Who Killed Amanda Palmer" Video Series: Part 6

Part 6 of the "Who Killed Amanda Palmer" video series, the music video for "Strength Through Music"

From the debut solo album "Who Killed Amanda Palmer", produced by Ben Folds - Available now at http://music.amandapalmer.net

For info on new videos and songs coming ALL year long, please visit http://www.amandapalmer.net

Directed by Michael Pope
Produced by BriAnna Olson & MediaVox

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• amanda palmer
• afp
• columbine
• school shooting
• high school
• teenager
• virginia tech
• massacre
• memorial
• mediavox
• michael pope

[Rey513]

For those of you who aren't aware, Iron Pyrite (fool's gold) is a compound of "F" (or Fe, iron) and "S" (sulfur).

~Knowledge Empowers!

[BaldotheDon]

I don't think the song is about a school shooting, it's about a school shooter. A subtle but important difference. The video is the nightmare of a sensitive, loving soul discovering she made the music that inspired a massacre. I mean, just look at the way her head drops after she finds her title on the player's display. Her spirit was with him, and she really wishes he hadn't brought her where he did.

[neonballroom]

This is my fave song on her album, btw.<3

[neonballroom]

This woman makes incredible, inspiring music.She also makes hairy armpits and drawn-on eyebrows strangely appealing...

[errbt]

Her wonderfully bowlegged stance make me weak in the knees...she is so much more woman than us mere mortals could handle, and I mean that in every way - physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually...still, I wish I could try (curse you, Neil Gaiman)! :p

[Frankmuddy]

@BearInfestedWaters There's a good chance that's not a total accident.

[HiroClownstep]

i did not expect the original voiceover to be a fucked up cartoon at all....

[eeeviiilll]

I went to Columbine. I was of the generation just before the shooting. I used to be friends with Mark Manes and Phil Duran. I was working at a snowboard shop about a mile away from the school when it all happened and remember wondering who I knew might still be there, and listening to frantic phone calls from my friends and employees trying to find out if their loved ones were alright. I haven't felt as close to the way I did at that moment as I do right now, having just seen this video. Hell...

[QuirkyGirl12345]

Perhaps it wouldnhelp some to k ow that in most of the live performances of this song, instead of the "F and S" stuff, the names, ages, injuries and place of death of the victims of the Columbine Masacre are read out.

If u haven't seen a live version before I highly recommend it at least for the start. I constantly get shivers every time they read out something like (not exactly):

Rachel Scott. 16 years old. Shot four times in the head in the West staircase.

[BearInfestedWaters]

Amanda seems like she's Death, from Sandman comics. I know that's totally not what it is but it reminds me of her.

[noisenik]

Re intro puzzle: Greek had no F, that's how all those PH's got into philosophical discourse, for instance... further, i think you'll find that ferus=iron is latin anyway... anyway, more confidently... er, irony, anyone? Mad alchemist takes instruction from twig omen, which represents complex curved shapes... ie a nutter; "Ah! Sweet Columbine, you're here, now lief us wither away...!"

[skaaragurl]

@InvisibleGothSoul I would also like to know! I must have them!!