Why is gangsters paradise playing in the background.
Seriously. Whoever chose this song needs to be whipped in the face with a rotting trout.
For those of you who weren't there in the 90's, "Gangster's Paradise" was written for the movie Dangerous Minds, which is a (admittedly mediocre and rather insulting) movie about a white teacher who goes into a troubled inner city school and makes a difference in a bunch of juvenile delinquents' lives with music. It was based on a true story, but in real life the teacher taught poetry by using rap and connecting with the kids on their level, which the school's authorities fight her on because they see the kids as lost causes; the insulting part is the movies changed the rap and connecting with them on their level to 60's hippie rock and token acknowledgement that "yeah, it was kinda about drugs so it works on your level," basically turning a touching story about crossing barriers to help people into a Mighty Whitey story.
The song Dangerous Minds is basically referencing how the students' lives would have turned out without her--stuck in a gang/criminal lifestyle they were heading toward at the beginning of the movie, lamenting that they don't want this, that they have no way out, that their own parents disowned them/think they're a lost cause, and basically killing people who offend them because that's all they know how to do anymore.
I get that advertisements pull this all the time, choosing songs either because they're catchy or because they don't pay attention to the lyrics enough to actually understand what it's about, but this is a rather extreme example because the lyrics even to a casual listener don't fit the movie they're advertising. Either that or someone on the advertising team decided that "rebellious teen" means "gangster wannabe."
