Today’s music constitutes sober reminders of how we affect others, and how deeply others can be hurting, and not fully display it.
“Jeremy,” by Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, was about a high school sophomore, Jeremy, who committed suicide by putting a gun in his mouth and pulling the trigger in front of his class one day. They based the song on the short newspaper article telling about it.
The video progresses from slower, more abstract ideas about the news, the world, and Jeremy, until Jeremy is shown as the only person in motion as he shouts at others. Meanwhile, Pearl Jam’s music is rising in volume and intensity, until the climax.
Not a fun fact, and a disheartening reminder. But sometimes, reminders are required.
Michael Seidel, writer 
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