Living in a Clown World

"Living in a Clown World" is a song off the Every Ape and His Brother album The Sent-In Clowns. It's a parody of "Mad World" by Within Temptation.

Background
The parody song was written in October of 2019, and quickly submitted to AmIRight under the user alias "AranJutan." It was submitted as a commentary on the disintegration of western culture that was evident during the fall of 2019 - especially with such events as the Extinction Rebellion going on in Europe - which later betrayed itself as nothing but a certifiably insane gay supremacist movement. The song was inspired by MeMeMeme's series NPC University, as well as by various culture videos being put out by Paul Joseph Watson.

While the parody song was going to initially be released in late September of 2019, it was delayed because of A Very Anarteq Tour of the Soo. It chose to use "Mad World" as a template, because the original song's lyrics were deemed simple enough to allow for easy exploitation.

While the original song talks about how corruption and the struggle against it seems to be inherent in the soul of modern man; the parody song portrays the world's population as having mostly already completely given itself over to the darkness, and having become fools on account of this.

Topics
The song begins by condemning Colin Kaepernick's hypocrisy at pretending to stand up for human rights; as he condemns the national anthem for promoting a "racist country" that had slavery in it 200 years earlier, but then cheers on the human rights abuses of the Castro regime in Cuba, at events where he goes to pains to show insensitivity to Cuban refugees. Regardless, the NFL makes him out to be a "hero" for this hypocrisy.

Around the time the song was released, there were wildfires in the Amazon forest again. However, they were stopped much more quickly than in the 80s. The singer declares this a pity, that the flames didn't consume the entire planet. A background chorus wishes for the asteroid Apophis to hit Earth, wiping out all the morons that have taken the planet over.

The world's degenerate fools are all summarized by the NPC meme, with them "screaming in pain" and "turning red and murdering upon hearing truth." This is in reference to MeMeMeme's animated series NPC University, where the college students would often behave in this irrational, demonic manner whenever they heard anything their programming couldn't reconcile.

The song then postulates that Soros own their souls, and goes on to mock them for getting so bent out of shape over the Honkler meme. Repetition of "because we're living in a clown world" mirror's the original song's repetition of "mad world."

The second version turns thing around, telling conservative voters that trying to "preserve" the America that once was is a losing proposition, as that America no longer exists. Instead, it states they should focus on building a new one, that honors the intentions of the old one they lost while correcting its past acts of negligence - which created the current one. From there, this shift in focus is deemed imperative, before leftism gets everyone killed with its foolishness.

The song then mentions how Kate Steinle's killer was absolved of murder charges in her death, and what a travesty of justice this was, as further proof of "Clown World."

The Tide Pod hysteria of 2018 is referenced, along with mentioning the suspicious circumstances around the death of Jeffery Epstein, and rise of the "Epstein didn't kill himself" meme. Next are mentioned rumors spread by The National Enquirer and other rag mags about Epstein's ties to the royal family in Britain, specifically Prince Andrew. That this would give both the CIA and MI-6 motive to want Epstein assassinated, to prevent him from giving court testimony. The song summarizes it as "he had dirt on everyone."

The song's bridge encourages listeners to take the honk pill as a coping strategy. Around this same time, several convicted sex offenders began abusing Gnosticism's new stranglehold on western culture to circumvent their restraining orders and visit libraries. Where they were then caught preying on children while abusing "Drag Queen Story Hour" as an opportunity to find new targets for child molestation and trafficking.

The fruitcake left in that same time period not only tried to argue "trans rights" to defend Drag Queen Story Hour - which was nothing but child sex abuse in the form of corruption of minors - but even went so far as to defend the sex offenders abusing the event to circumvent their restraining orders - going so far as to argue that the sex offender registry itself was "bigotry"! Calling these criminals and their enablers out became part of activist Elizabeth Johnston's personal crusade, especially in 2019. In reaction, sexual deviants and predators began seizing control of the Twitter "Woke" Mob, and declaring literally any and all resistance to their advocacy of child rape to be "transphobia."

The song condemns this insane left-wing postulation openly, before moving on to describe how out-of-control human trafficking has become in Clown World. The final chorus opens with blaming a Clinton-era badly-written law for modern-day CPS corruption. It ends with more repetition of the fact that humanity now lives in a "Clown World," where morality has all but ceased to exist in any form recognizable to the world of before.

Reception
In spite over 300 views, "Living in a Clown World," as of 2021, has no reviews.

Trivia

 * At the time of its release, "Living in a Clown World" was the second-ever song parody submitted to AmIRight to feature a rewrite of a song originally performed by Within Temptation. The only other song at the time with this honorable designation was "Diamonds" by TheLastAurora, which took the tune of "Angels."
 * "Living in a Clown World" is the only time in the history of AmIRight in which a song by Within Temptation from the 2010s had a parody submitted in the 2010s.
 * By contrast, TheLastAurora's "Diamonds" was the only time in the history of AmIRight in which a song by Within Temptation from the 2000s had a parody submitted in the 2000s to the site. "Diamonds" was submitted on July 20th of 2008, whereas "Living in a Clown World" was submitted in October of 2019.