It is scary how many people in these comments lack the critical thinking to read into the lyrics. He's not criticizing fat people, he's criticizing how it's virtually impossible to avoid eating crap in the USA.
He is criticizing both the corporations for crap food, and people for allowing themselves to get fat by choosing to eat crap food. It is a problem that involves both the consumer and the producer. Stop buying and eating crap food and you won't get fat (in theory).
@@Ninjanimegamer my parents bought the crap food and i was born into their family without my consent. I had literally zero choice. millions others just like me
I believe this line might be in reference to the former drag queen now known as King Tyra, who was met with excessive force after he called the police following being the victim of a hit and run. wow shocker!! A black man ended up getting tased and arrested after HE called the police for help as a victim of a crime! Long story short, after the police station investigated themselves and found that they weren’t at fault 🙄, through staging a one man protest, King Tyra was able to get this corrupt station in Florida closed for good (there was year’s worth of other evidence of the station’s corruption all of their dirty dealings).
@@juanmansego6267 It's not. In some of his other videos, he's wearing blue but you can also see a fallen tree swaying slightly, and it doesn't affect his image or anything. The sounds as well. In every video there are birds/cicadas.
Welles wakes up every day and thinks "What massive social issue can I parody and call out in 2 minutes today?" Well done. The processed food to medical debt pipeline is a monster.
I love how the dumb people are saying the song is going to far instead listening to the lyrics. He is saying is "your own damn fault" but he is using it as sarcasm. Just like doctors told us long ago that cigarettes were okay, they also say that real sugar was the enemy to get the bio engineered stuff on the table.
Generic engineering is not inherently bad at all, it just sounds scary. Real sugar sound great, but it's litterally one of the worse things you can ingest
Advertisements use to run that said 8 out of 10 doctors suggest Camel cigarettes. There's a lot of depth to these lyrics to anybody smart enough to Google.
@@Valorince no one is getting triggered from that it's literally the opposite where everyone's going "holy shit he's so right fatties just need to stop eating." (Which is somewhat right but the entire song is focused on the chemical bullshit they put into everything.)
Everything goes over peoples heads these days. Good call, everyone looking for something to hate before the look, listen or think about what it is they are hearing
The world needs a Jesse Welles album as soon as possible! I can't stop listening to War Isn't Murder. I understand why comments are turned off on that video but let me say it's such an amazing song! It has touched me in a way that no other song ever has and I think the whole world needs to hear it. I've been showing everyone I know. Getting the good word out. Thank you for all this amazing music! We need this right now.
Whoah.. I just listened 10 times in a row in disbelief. You captured in a song how I’ve felt my entire life, battling my weight, surviving multiple eating disorders, trying every diet on earth, exercising until I collapsed. The culture of shame is so strong in the U.S. that an intelligent conversation about health and weight is impossible, including with doctors. The company’s profiting off our demise orchestrate a society where we blame the individual and bully others for entertainment. That way we’re too ashamed and distracted to ever look closely at the people making our food, medicines, etc. I’ve been searching all my life for this song and I’m very grateful to the algorithm tonight for bringing me here. Please keep writing songs, you’re extremely talented and very intelligent.
I came just to see the fuss... this must be what, "all publicity is good publicity" means. This is a great song. The truth is becoming easier to see as more people are willing to speak it. I'm an overweight person with diabetes. Can anyone guess what the hardest habit for me to break is? I've got neuropathy in my feet that's so bad, it's hard for me to wear sandles. I'm only 44 yrs old. It's the soda for me.....cherry Pepsi, vanilla coke, all the mixtures in those new machines. I go for weeks without it sometimes, and then I give in to a "treat." Then, before long, I'm right back where I started. I take accountability for my choices, but it's just so damn hard. Thank you for this song. You sing it beautifully.
Check your water quality, I found it much easier to refuse flavored drinks when I was drinking distilled water than when we had tap in Baltimore... This dude is a great songwriter, I can see his songs living on for a long long time. This is what "folk music" is supposed to be really about- music of the people's struggles of the time.
Man’s is a creative genius. Simple melody containing pure gold lyrics. I don’t typically fall into the folky country type genres but every single one of these songs are gold. I await your next post with anticipation!
Every song you write has a great blend of sarcasm/cynicism/realism while touching on topics people generally don't like to discuss. Everytime I see an upload, I know its going to be something thought provoking. I think its really cool that you prioritize art over marketability.
@@geoffreynelson6413 it's genuinely some of the most sad shit to see how many people can't understand anything that isn't literally spelled out to them in the chorus. Sure they have a lot of sarcastic lines but the message is still practically spelled out for you.
This is clearly an attack at big tobacco and large corporation that fill the shelves at the supermarket, not a directed at people. Some people just cannot see the sarcasm.
It calls out both the enablers/people who ignore that food addiction is an illness just the same as tobacco addiction was, and the companies who created such addiction/worsen it with their frankenfood. So technically it does also blame plenty of the fat people out there who deny food addictions! Great song.
The fat shaming in the comments is insane considering the message of the song does not seem to be about fat people at all, but rather mega corporations who do their best to engineer things that are incredibly addictive and extremely bad for you. Why would he spend so much time talking about the companies and the ingredients, and "self-investigations," if the message was actually about self control. One last point that people are letting fly over their heads... Cigarette companies would use the claim that doctors recommend smoking "healthy brands." One such brand was Camel, and they used this slogan to sell them: "More doctors smoke Camels than any other brand." And it took us years to do anything about it legally. In my opinion, the true message of this song is that we need to stop shaming fat people, and start targeting sinister corporations that put absolute garbage in our food with no repercussions. Take some legal action, folks. Jesse Welles has not punched down so far, why would he start now?
While I one hundred percent agree, it's an absurdity that the media literacy quota has fallen so far that what people derive from this is a completely literal interpretation of only the chorus. We are so fucked.
@@wen1188 It's alarming, but it explains some things. We could use a song about why you're so lacking in intelligence (I have to be careful what words I use or TH-cam will get me) but I fear the people who need to hear it most wouldn't grok it.
the cause of widespread obesity isn't the ingredients or the chemicals they put into food, its the portion size. Americans demand coke by the bucket and burgers so large one meal is enough calories is enough to feed two people for a day. obviously high fructose corn syrup and seed oils are terrible for your health and gut, but they are extremely cheap which is why you can have such large portions without the high costs. Japan consumes a lot of highly addicting snacks, yet doesn't have an issue with obesity because they understand that the simple equation of calories in > calories out, and have a workplace culture that promotes healthy living, you don't want to stand out as the fat person. I dont disagree with welles here, hes spot on with the research funding and that the advertising class should be blamed , i just think he is missing a few aspects of this epidemic going on.
I can't believe we went through a period of time where people on the internet claimed to be fluent in sarcasm and then take his lyrics literally to shame who this was meant for.
YOU. CANNOT. CANCEL. A. PERSON. It's not real. People came up with the term a few years ago and for some mysterious reason that even god could not possibly fathom, people ran with it. Nobody has ever been cancelled and nobody ever will be. Unless you're talking about plain murdering someone, which is literally the opposite of cancelling someone because that just turns them into a martyr whose voice will ring out all the louder to an even wider audience. Where on earth does this idea come from? It's just playground politics.
@@nellkellino-miller7673i think it originally referred to people who had their careers ended, public appearance was destroyed, and lives were severely disrupted by the general public’s response to something they did or said. Which has happened to a few people, but is really uncommon. Since then, the term has come to mean “anyone that a liberal has ever complained about”
please for the love of god this song is not about shaming fat people and no one is trying to cancel him. he's talking about how obesity isnt a personal moral failure but a result of the fact that most if not all of the food that poor people can afford is overprocessed and engineered to keep people buying more of it instead of to actually be healthy, and how the beauty/diet industry works to shame and isolate fat people instead of actually helping them or just like leaving them alone.
Brutal people can't see he's not even blaming people for being fat. He's blaming the companies for stuffing grocery stores with garbage products as well as false advertising. "It's your fault" is what coca-cola tells you while suggesting to have a soda instead of a water.
"...they did their own investigation like a Florida Sheriff station...."😁 "...all the food on the shelf was engineered for your health, so you're going to have to take the blame." 😁 This is so perfect! Keep em' coming!
everyone missing the point. saying its someone else's fault for being fat, is the same as blaming someone's grandpa for dying of lung disease after smoking their whole life. Yeah were their people saying to stop, sure, we focus on them nowadays, and the anecdotes of Camels being the "number one recommended by doctors" but its the government's fault for not regulating these businesses and upholding them to the same standards as any healthy community.
All of his songs skillfully use satire to make a point around the common theme that greedy profiteering capitalists are ruining the world. Whether it's the military industrial complex, the private medical industry, or the food industry, etc.
It’s the government’s fault for failing to regulate corporations adding sugar to everything and for not helping make healthy food way more expensive than the junk.
But really, it's just pushing the blame outside of your control. The burden falls on the consumer. It isn't the brewery's fault if I die drunk driving - it's mine.
@@setterfieldstray So we can control what's on the shelves at the grocery store? Not too much of that stuff is even remotely healthy sir, even the "organic" stuff that the majority of average people can't afford. FDA is a joke. Take a look at the ingredients of any food product on the shelves, if you googled those things it would blow your mind what americans are putting in their bodies. Shredded cheese had natamycin in it, which is a medicine available only by prescription. I think you may have missed the "point"
@@setterfieldstray they engineer products that are cheap that the poor folks will buy because healthy became expensive, they get addicted, most likely early on as they have ads showing off those foodstuffs every day of their lives for years on end shoved down their throats while society does nothing to stop the influence these corporations have, bloody capitalism
I feel like it’s extremely obvious he’s being sarcastic, but soooo many people misunderstood the message. Now I’m wondering if people really believe war isn’t murder too lmao
“The doctor told em what to do, he smoked camels, guess he bought the wrong pack” “All the food on the shelf was engineered for your health so you’re gonna have to take the blame”
I’ve gone from being fat to being obsessed with losing weight to an unhealthy level in my life and I’m only 21, hopefully I’ll be able to carry on being more stable now, trying to be healthy and having cheat days every so often and working out. This song is great, explains some of the issues with the food industry
@@setterfieldstray”it just works” Okay todd, why don’t you get back to trying to sell me skyrim for the 19th time instead of posting horrible opinions on the internet.
The US isn't in any major wars, but is facing several health crises that are all impacted by diet, so I'd say this song is addressing one of the most pressing issues in the US.
The lyrics are BRILLIANT - Back in the 50s and 60s, doctors did tell people to smoke Camel, but as Jesse sings, maybe he got the wrong pack-that's why his lungs turned black. And all that stuff they put in the food makes you addicted to it. Please just listen to the message he's conveying!
I love that this song shifts the search for a solution from personal responsibility to systemic problems. We need more songs like this if we want to educate and focus Americans enough to drive change.
The media shames us on one hand and then goes to commercial to entice us with things that are bad for us but are deceptively marketed and then shames us again. It's a fantastic irony. I appreciate your songs man, hopefully literacy rates will stop plummeting at some point once education stops being defunded and we'll get more people appreciating the messages you're actually putting forth :)
I have battled the demon of obesity all my life and I very much appreciate this song. Of course I will take the blame when it comes to self control. I can't control myself, eat way too much, way too unhealthy. But like dude.... nobody can tell me that all that food in the shelf was engineered for our health.
Have you tried eating only produce and meats? Like only meat, fresh fruits and veggies? I ditched all chemicals and processed foods and have so much energy all my auto immune symptoms are gone! And it’s cheap!! Lettuce and tomatoes aren’t expensive especially when you buy what’s on sale
@@CMM726 There's a good reason food corporations spend hundreds of millions on marketing and advertising. 90% of people are dumb enough to fall for color theorized designs, fun buzzwords, and the coolest, latest new flavor of their trendy hot chip. Every other ad is for some junk food packaged in plastic. When's the last time you saw an ad for fresh meat or produce, outside of a sign for a local farmers market?
@@MTBTSP exactly!! People are really busy working and often don’t have time to think too much, they are just exhausted after work. But with everyone having a computer in their pocket these days there’s no excuse for ignorance. All though, all the fake studies and lies propagated by big food aren’t helping. I’ve tried sharing the truth at work and 75 percent don’t care and don’t want to change
Could use polish, but I'm hardly a sign writer or have any talent. Also, the "food on the shelf" is engineered to be addictive and make one sick. It's so full of toxic chemicals it makes me sick - just eat real foods.
Anyone claiming this song is fat-shaming lacks the capacity to understand satire. Great work crafting a song that enflames the passions of multiple groups of people. You, Jesse, have an excellent voice, classic Jim Morrison looks, and a keen mind for attacking socially relevant topics in an amusing and equally infuriating manner. Bravo!
Not even that it's the inability to understand a message that isn't literally cut and dry spelled out for them so they grasp onto the one they assume is being told directly to them (being the sarcastic line of it's your fault you're fat)
Another good one damn. Lyrics are insane you thought to add it all together perfectly. Such a sick twist to the feeling of insult some get and dont catch its the world being designed to kill us in complacency.
@@rowan248 Either way its still a step in the right direction. You have to understand a problem to solve it. Also almost everything in this world gets done just because not doing it makes you feel miserable. Pain is a powerful motivator.
@raidrampant5140 blaming the world for you being fat doesn't make you thin either, it just makes you accepting and content with a form that will inevitably kill you much quicker.
Why am I not shocked that soooo many people are misunderstanding the message behind this song, and are using it as validation of their ignorant assholery
People getting mad about this song are not listening to the words! He is literally pointing out how ludicrous it is to blame the end user in a system so rigged against them from the top down
I feel less people are getting mad then it is people who are missing the message and agreeing to the chorus- you’re right, but I think you’re pointing it out to the wrong group of people.
I disagree; I think the criticisms of the system is sarcasm: ie, you can't blame a company/manufacturer/etc for decisions YOU make! Note that he also makes mention of a man ignoring a Dr.'s correct diagnosis for his health re: cigarettes. You are fat/unhealthy/etc because of YOU, not because of some corporate boogeyman.
@@andreweff1284 I get where you’re coming from for sure, but I feel like that would be a crazy amount of irony, like, a confusing amount of irony. He says in the non chorus parts of the song that it’s “not like an evil scientist” something about making super unhealthy food, yk? And while this COULD be supposed to be taken literally, I find it kind of hard to believe. Especially since he mentions “critters and chemicals” which are both used in making processed food. Also, with the doctor thing, he mentions it’s grandpappy, which leads me to believe he may be referring to how in the 30s-50s some cigarettes were “doctor approved” hence, “I guess he bought the wrong pack” anyway, I could be wrong of course, and you’re not even replying to me in the first place, just wanted to share my opinion. I mean, all that being said, it’s important to try to make better decisions for your health, I think he’s just, as another commenter said, pointing out the irony that when the system creates an unhealthy environment that promotes addiction, the people shouldn’t turn on each other and blame the people who get addicted. You feel?
@@Bepipen that was a really well-articulated comment and I partially agree with your points. *HOWEVER* if you would, let me put this up for your consideration: all of the unhealthy consumer products mentioned in the song, are generally available across the US to all 340 million (approximated) people living here...yet we can adequately state that not all 340 million people are fat and/or suffering from black lung. That presumes one of two main consumer outcomes: 1) not all people are using these unhealthy products, or 2) all 340 million people ARE using said products, but are NOT being affected the same by them. It makes much more sense to me that instance 1) is being assumed in the song, rather than instance 2). Anyway, thanks for sharing your perspective in an intelligent, well-thought-out way. 🤙
💯 You get it completely. The intended message was obvious as soon as I heard the lyric about the scientists, chemicals, rigorous testing. I think the verse referring to grandpappys smoking could be confusing people. I am assuming most people don't know much of the history between the tobacco industry, American Medical industry and their role in the rise of our country. America was built on tobacco and for a very long time it wasn't just dr approved but medically prescribed as a cure for a list of ailments. I don't think much was ever said publicly or better put, Allowed to be said publicly untill the 60s or 70s. I'm not certain on those exact dates but that's irrelevant. Point is you are correct his reference of tobacco use and the now elderly generation keeps pace witb the same sarcastic undertone of the rest of the song. In defense of some of the negative comments I can say that if I did not know that bit of history and thought people always knew cigarettes were bad for you then that lyric could easily have given me the impression that the song is about personal responsibility instead of the intended exposure of corporate injustices. Again I am 100% certain this song is in defence of people suffering from the mentioned diseases/afflictions by spreading awareness to the facts that these large corporations are intentionally making their products extremely addictive. The fact that Addiction is now medically classified as a physical disease that can permanently alters brain function in such a way that the addictive substance becomes hardwired into your central cortex while weakening the connections to the frontal cortex. To simplify that a little after a varied period of regular use your brain puts the addictive substance (whatever it may be) into the same part of your brain that tells you your thirsty or hungry. You don't think about being thirsty but if you go long enough without drinking anything your brain makes damn sure your body knows it needs water to survive. It's hard to imagine unless youve experienced it but your brain starts doing the same thing for a chemical it has become addicted to and over time this subconscious survival instinct gets stronger and at the same time this portion of your brains connection to the reasoning/thinking section of your brain that says we'll actually we don't need this to survive infact it's bad gets weaker and eventually severed so bad that your brain demands the addictive substance and will go absolutly haywire without it the same as it would if you tried to intentionally deny it oxygen. You cant hold your breath untill you die because your brain will take control despite your every intention to deny it. Replace oxygen with heroin in that scenario. Try as hard as you can to deny your brain something it's been convinced it needs to live and it goes into survival mode where it will very literally and physically make you suffer in unimaginable ways untill you give it what it needs. I Apologize for going deep into that small peice of my originally intended comment but what better place to try and spread awareness than in the comments on video of a song about awareness.
@@Rollmops94 by you people do you mean intelligent, successful writers? i mean thanks for putting me in the same category as jesse here but i'm not gen z bob dylan he is. im just published in literary journals a whole bunch.
0:33 "self investigation, like a Florida sheriff station...." Nice verse. So far you always incorporate at least one poetically powerful verse in each tune. My synapses appreciate this and my fingers colloborate to initiate this written text. Inspired the rise of the reclining ibex, previously hidden in my minds deepest dephs. Before I wrote that, I believed the metaphor to be in keeping with the context. But now upon reading I just think I digressed, should lie less and have a reader to digest. We tried God, and the dog didnt pass the goddamn test. Now its down to the song to keep us blessed. And the singer of the song will teach us this. The messages in the frequency's will reach us yes. The Hertz can hurt us, if not in vibrational harmony with how we resonate inately. Anyway, ahumen and mmuch love
I didn’t even realize till yesterday this man has a BADASS rock career too! He’s a musical chameleon and a serious poet. I aspire to be able to write with the amount of authenticity that this man has.
For those who don’t understand. He isn’t fat shaming you for not being able to lose weight or trying. He’s using satire to adress how companies put what ever they want in food aslong as it doesn’t kill you or taste horrible and there’s not much you can do about it
Except in America, the additives really will kill you, slowly and brutally through cancer. They only get to fly through standards here because our government agencies are corrupt and allow corporations to literally write their own rules and regulations.
I show Jesse to my conservative friends and they don't like him because they think he's liberal, and my liberal friends don't like him because they think he's conservative
Wait, what are you gonna tell me next, the Colbert Report was satire?? That Ron Swanson supposed to be a caricature?? That I'm not supposed to stan Walt from Breaking Bad, but be horrified that I'm identifying with him??? Say it ain't so 😮😮😮
I saw this clipped somewhere else and I searched for it to give it a like, I'm fat and a smoker, truth deserves publicizing, especially in this evil ungodly world!
It is scary how many people in these comments lack the critical thinking to read into the lyrics. He's not criticizing fat people, he's criticizing how it's virtually impossible to avoid eating crap in the USA.
He is criticizing both the corporations for crap food, and people for allowing themselves to get fat by choosing to eat crap food. It is a problem that involves both the consumer and the producer.
Stop buying and eating crap food and you won't get fat (in theory).
@@Ninjanimegamer my parents bought the crap food and i was born into their family without my consent. I had literally zero choice. millions others just like me
@GrenadeGoose yes but did you consume different foods once you were no longer being supported by your parents and their suboptimal choices?
@@GrenadeGoose “I was born without my consent” has to be one of the lamest things I’ve ever read. 😆
@@BellyUpFishGarage odd considering i didnt say that? did you misread my comment?
"They[Coca-Cola] did a self investigation like a Florida sheriff station, so you know they wont be found at fault." Damn.
A wordsmith
I believe this line might be in reference to the former drag queen now known as King Tyra, who was met with excessive force after he called the police following being the victim of a hit and run.
wow shocker!!
A black man ended up getting tased and arrested after HE called the police for help as a victim of a crime!
Long story short, after the police station investigated themselves and found that they weren’t at fault 🙄, through staging a one man protest, King Tyra was able to get this corrupt station in Florida closed for good (there was year’s worth of other evidence of the station’s corruption all of their dirty dealings).
@@ARareAndDifferentTune_13long live the Grateful Dead!
That’s my favorite verse lol
@@bumblebootwiddletoes5185 NFA my dear friend! 💀🌹⚡️
I just keep thinking how tight it would be to be a critter in the woods out there
It looks like a blue screen
@@juanmansego6267 the completely blue shirt he's wearing probably means its not lol
@@juanmansego6267that's what someone who doesn't go outdoors would say. I guess he pumped in the sound of the cicadas and leaves underfoot too...
If you were a critter in the woods you would have no cognition or what was going on and therefore could not appreciate it on any perceptible level.
@@juanmansego6267 It's not. In some of his other videos, he's wearing blue but you can also see a fallen tree swaying slightly, and it doesn't affect his image or anything. The sounds as well. In every video there are birds/cicadas.
Benny Johnson made a GREAT video about you & this video!
I’m SO glad he did and I was able to find you!!
AMAZING GREAT Song!! LOVE IT!!!
I’ve seen 2 now, I’m here!
Welles wakes up every day and thinks "What massive social issue can I parody and call out in 2 minutes today?"
Well done. The processed food to medical debt pipeline is a monster.
Addicted to our msg salt sugar fat crunchies??? Have a GLP-1 agonist. Don't worry your insurance won't cover it, because you did this to you. 🤔
@@veal_vermicelli You know what the far more interesting social issue is that currently spreads like a wild fire? Finger pointing.
@@Rollmops94 your sarcasm meter broken? The addiction to biopharmacy pipeline is what I'm referencing.
Made me go out and get ice cream.
I love how the dumb people are saying the song is going to far instead listening to the lyrics. He is saying is "your own damn fault" but he is using it as sarcasm. Just like doctors told us long ago that cigarettes were okay, they also say that real sugar was the enemy to get the bio engineered stuff on the table.
It is both parties. Not just one or the other.
Who the hell said anything about political parties, its the whole gobalist regime.@@gilbertwilson9093
Generic engineering is not inherently bad at all, it just sounds scary. Real sugar sound great, but it's litterally one of the worse things you can ingest
‘self investigation like a florida sheriff station..’ is crazy lmao
AMAZING line
Advertisements use to run that said 8 out of 10 doctors suggest Camel cigarettes. There's a lot of depth to these lyrics to anybody smart enough to Google.
Nope. Based on the comments, people aren't smart enough for that. Instead, they heard "its your own fault you're fat" and immediately got triggered.
@@Valorince no one is getting triggered from that it's literally the opposite where everyone's going "holy shit he's so right fatties just need to stop eating." (Which is somewhat right but the entire song is focused on the chemical bullshit they put into everything.)
I think the lyrics went over ppl’s heads
Definitely. Anyone who is offended by this song is obviously not very bright.
Everything goes over peoples heads these days. Good call, everyone looking for something to hate before the look, listen or think about what it is they are hearing
I mean the dude has a song titled "War isn't murder" and people still are this dumb about it lmao
The world needs a Jesse Welles album as soon as possible! I can't stop listening to War Isn't Murder. I understand why comments are turned off on that video but let me say it's such an amazing song! It has touched me in a way that no other song ever has and I think the whole world needs to hear it. I've been showing everyone I know. Getting the good word out. Thank you for all this amazing music! We need this right now.
Amen
Chill with the antisemitism
@@charleshuddle8225 ain’t nobody say anything antisemitic here
Jesse Welles has recorded a lot of albums, but he decided to start from scratch this time.
@@charleshuddle8225Where the hell are you getting antisemitism from?
You might need to explain your logic here...
Babe wake up, Welles is roasting our overlords
And us* cause god damn are we dumb and ignorant and preyed on too
Sweet bird of Truth
Absolutely
Genius
@@BestSomebodyNAcorrect. I hear there are skinny people in Gaza but they don't have a choice.
This tune is absolutely GENIUS! (A lot of folks seem to be misinterpreting)
Whoah.. I just listened 10 times in a row in disbelief. You captured in a song how I’ve felt my entire life, battling my weight, surviving multiple eating disorders, trying every diet on earth, exercising until I collapsed. The culture of shame is so strong in the U.S. that an intelligent conversation about health and weight is impossible, including with doctors. The company’s profiting off our demise orchestrate a society where we blame the individual and bully others for entertainment. That way we’re too ashamed and distracted to ever look closely at the people making our food, medicines, etc.
I’ve been searching all my life for this song and I’m very grateful to the algorithm tonight for bringing me here. Please keep writing songs, you’re extremely talented and very intelligent.
I'd like to think the "cancelled" shorts that lead ALL of us here was a clever ploy that i refuse to be mad about
I came just to see the fuss... this must be what, "all publicity is good publicity" means. This is a great song. The truth is becoming easier to see as more people are willing to speak it. I'm an overweight person with diabetes. Can anyone guess what the hardest habit for me to break is? I've got neuropathy in my feet that's so bad, it's hard for me to wear sandles. I'm only 44 yrs old. It's the soda for me.....cherry Pepsi, vanilla coke, all the mixtures in those new machines. I go for weeks without it sometimes, and then I give in to a "treat." Then, before long, I'm right back where I started. I take accountability for my choices, but it's just so damn hard. Thank you for this song. You sing it beautifully.
Check your water quality, I found it much easier to refuse flavored drinks when I was drinking distilled water than when we had tap in Baltimore...
This dude is a great songwriter, I can see his songs living on for a long long time. This is what "folk music" is supposed to be really about- music of the people's struggles of the time.
Seen this video on @Benny Johnsons channel. I had to see this for myself. Love it!!!
Man’s is a creative genius. Simple melody containing pure gold lyrics. I don’t typically fall into the folky country type genres but every single one of these songs are gold. I await your next post with anticipation!
Every song you write has a great blend of sarcasm/cynicism/realism while touching on topics people generally don't like to discuss.
Everytime I see an upload, I know its going to be something thought provoking.
I think its really cool that you prioritize art over marketability.
My dad always said to me
“Be careful with irony, son, because most folks don’t know what it is and they won’t understand.”
@@geoffreynelson6413 it's genuinely some of the most sad shit to see how many people can't understand anything that isn't literally spelled out to them in the chorus. Sure they have a lot of sarcastic lines but the message is still practically spelled out for you.
"Appalachian rage is my new favorite genre" 😂
You are missing the point if you think this song is about fat shaming.
The food on the shelf was engineered for The Health...damn shame.
This is clearly an attack at big tobacco and large corporation that fill the shelves at the supermarket, not a directed at people. Some people just cannot see the sarcasm.
It calls out both the enablers/people who ignore that food addiction is an illness just the same as tobacco addiction was, and the companies who created such addiction/worsen it with their frankenfood. So technically it does also blame plenty of the fat people out there who deny food addictions! Great song.
This guy is literally the most clever lyricist I've come across. Keep it up.
Benny
Sent me 🎉
Love this music 🎶
I'm 65. My left is done after failed neck surgery. No guitar for me again.
Thanks kid! You remind me John Prine when he was young.
Great stuff!
Visually I'm thinking Jim Morrison
A short saying he was cancelled brought me here. The first 5 seconds made me laugh, its so true. I'm subscribing to this guy!
The fat shaming in the comments is insane considering the message of the song does not seem to be about fat people at all, but rather mega corporations who do their best to engineer things that are incredibly addictive and extremely bad for you.
Why would he spend so much time talking about the companies and the ingredients, and "self-investigations," if the message was actually about self control.
One last point that people are letting fly over their heads... Cigarette companies would use the claim that doctors recommend smoking "healthy brands." One such brand was Camel, and they used this slogan to sell them: "More doctors smoke Camels than any other brand." And it took us years to do anything about it legally.
In my opinion, the true message of this song is that we need to stop shaming fat people, and start targeting sinister corporations that put absolute garbage in our food with no repercussions. Take some legal action, folks. Jesse Welles has not punched down so far, why would he start now?
While I one hundred percent agree, it's an absurdity that the media literacy quota has fallen so far that what people derive from this is a completely literal interpretation of only the chorus. We are so fucked.
@@wen1188 It's alarming, but it explains some things. We could use a song about why you're so lacking in intelligence (I have to be careful what words I use or TH-cam will get me) but I fear the people who need to hear it most wouldn't grok it.
Well articulated. I find it motivating to try and get healthy. I'm an overweight smoker
Philip Morris diversified into food and the world is forever changed in a negative way.
the cause of widespread obesity isn't the ingredients or the chemicals they put into food, its the portion size. Americans demand coke by the bucket and burgers so large one meal is enough calories is enough to feed two people for a day. obviously high fructose corn syrup and seed oils are terrible for your health and gut, but they are extremely cheap which is why you can have such large portions without the high costs. Japan consumes a lot of highly addicting snacks, yet doesn't have an issue with obesity because they understand that the simple equation of calories in > calories out, and have a workplace culture that promotes healthy living, you don't want to stand out as the fat person. I dont disagree with welles here, hes spot on with the research funding and that the advertising class should be blamed , i just think he is missing a few aspects of this epidemic going on.
I can't believe we went through a period of time where people on the internet claimed to be fluent in sarcasm and then take his lyrics literally to shame who this was meant for.
You can tell by his grin it's all a big piss-take!
Jesse once again blesses my feed with another fantastically crafted song. Everything this guy makes is pure gold
I know right!?! I was like awww what a treat! He knows how to give it to us bit by bit, so we can savor every morsel
Nice commentary on food system. I bet there is no way in this modern highly educated society that it will go over anyone’s head. 😂
"they did a self investigation like a florida sheriff's station" 🔥
The people trying to cancel him for this song clearly havent actually listened and understood the lyrics...
Naw that's the real reason he's cancelled.
agreed its so sad how many people just blindly follow the mass opinion without checking it out themselves
YOU. CANNOT. CANCEL. A. PERSON.
It's not real. People came up with the term a few years ago and for some mysterious reason that even god could not possibly fathom, people ran with it. Nobody has ever been cancelled and nobody ever will be. Unless you're talking about plain murdering someone, which is literally the opposite of cancelling someone because that just turns them into a martyr whose voice will ring out all the louder to an even wider audience.
Where on earth does this idea come from? It's just playground politics.
@@nellkellino-miller7673i think it originally referred to people who had their careers ended, public appearance was destroyed, and lives were severely disrupted by the general public’s response to something they did or said. Which has happened to a few people, but is really uncommon.
Since then, the term has come to mean “anyone that a liberal has ever complained about”
Well, personally I love this song and the artist. A breath of fresh air.
please for the love of god this song is not about shaming fat people and no one is trying to cancel him. he's talking about how obesity isnt a personal moral failure but a result of the fact that most if not all of the food that poor people can afford is overprocessed and engineered to keep people buying more of it instead of to actually be healthy, and how the beauty/diet industry works to shame and isolate fat people instead of actually helping them or just like leaving them alone.
Very good
Fat
That's what i've been saying! It's disappointing to see how many people have literally no media literacy or ability to simply read lyrics.
"self investigation like a florida sheriff station"
Brutal people can't see he's not even blaming people for being fat. He's blaming the companies for stuffing grocery stores with garbage products as well as false advertising. "It's your fault" is what coca-cola tells you while suggesting to have a soda instead of a water.
"coca cola just walked in with the results. They did a self investigation like a Florida sheriff station so ya know they won't be found at fault" 🔥💀
Jim Morisson and Bob Dylan's illegitimate son:
Very accurate! He does look strangely similar to Jim morrison haha
"...they did their own investigation like a Florida Sheriff station...."😁 "...all the food on the shelf was engineered for your health, so you're going to have to take the blame." 😁 This is so perfect! Keep em' coming!
Benny Johnson. It's his damn fault I ended up here.
Me too and I’m so glad he didn’t get it…this guy is amazing!
What episode was it where he talked about this song?
@@aiden6705 : It was a short so tracking it down is not easy.
@@martab2761 : It's also not too hard to understand sarcasm. Apparently it's hard for you bro.
Talented, on so many levels.
Very smart way to criticize a system of greed, but also those who enable it.
I loved the Florida Sheriff's Station line. Genius.
everyone missing the point. saying its someone else's fault for being fat, is the same as blaming someone's grandpa for dying of lung disease after smoking their whole life. Yeah were their people saying to stop, sure, we focus on them nowadays, and the anecdotes of Camels being the "number one recommended by doctors" but its the government's fault for not regulating these businesses and upholding them to the same standards as any healthy community.
All of his songs skillfully use satire to make a point around the common theme that greedy profiteering capitalists are ruining the world. Whether it's the military industrial complex, the private medical industry, or the food industry, etc.
It's so easy to blame someone else, or the governments inability to regulate, when we have that power ourselves.
It’s the government’s fault for failing to regulate corporations adding sugar to everything and for not helping make healthy food way more expensive than the junk.
@@USMCshermannot when the government made deals to poison its on citizens, sounds like you were "educated" like a good lil soldier.
@@USMCsherman Thank you. All this finger pointing in modern times really pulls me down. Feels like everyone went nuts.
Here from Benny and your frigging hilarious 😂, love your music btw
love the sarcasm -" all the food on the shelf- was engineered for your health- so your gonna have to take the blame....shame shame shame!"
But really, it's just pushing the blame outside of your control. The burden falls on the consumer. It isn't the brewery's fault if I die drunk driving - it's mine.
@@setterfieldstray So we can control what's on the shelves at the grocery store? Not too much of that stuff is even remotely healthy sir, even the "organic" stuff that the majority of average people can't afford. FDA is a joke. Take a look at the ingredients of any food product on the shelves, if you googled those things it would blow your mind what americans are putting in their bodies. Shredded cheese had natamycin in it, which is a medicine available only by prescription. I think you may have missed the "point"
@@setterfieldstray they engineer products that are cheap that the poor folks will buy because healthy became expensive, they get addicted, most likely early on as they have ads showing off those foodstuffs every day of their lives for years on end shoved down their throats while society does nothing to stop the influence these corporations have, bloody capitalism
"Self investigation like a Florida Sheriff's station" is hilarious 😂
In essence, if you don't get the song, it's your own damn fault.
Benny Johnson just played a video with you in it..I love this song !!!
better write a little dumber welles, looks like this one flew right over their heads lol
this dudes puttin out bangers in real-time
I'm fat and approve of this message 😂
I'm fat as fuck. I love this song.might help me drop some pounds ...
I feel like it’s extremely obvious he’s being sarcastic, but soooo many people misunderstood the message. Now I’m wondering if people really believe war isn’t murder too lmao
“The doctor told em what to do, he smoked camels, guess he bought the wrong pack”
“All the food on the shelf was engineered for your health so you’re gonna have to take the blame”
How he can sing such complicated lyrics and play guitar simultaneously is something that an evil team of scientists needs to rigorously test 😂
I’ve gone from being fat to being obsessed with losing weight to an unhealthy level in my life and I’m only 21, hopefully I’ll be able to carry on being more stable now, trying to be healthy and having cheat days every so often and working out. This song is great, explains some of the issues with the food industry
Shit's hard, and we're NOT created equal. Don't forget to be kind to yourself as well.
Just remember to explore your motivations behind food choices. Eating disorders are easy to develop and hard to kick.
Just do keto or carnivore. There's nothing to obsess over. It just works.
@@setterfieldstray”it just works”
Okay todd, why don’t you get back to trying to sell me skyrim for the 19th time instead of posting horrible opinions on the internet.
@@mildly_miffed_man1414 lol "horrible opinion"
Judging by your pfp, you wouldn't know anything about dieting, so follow your own advice.
Old school talent right there, Live Raw and nails it. Good Job
Bro... I'm 51 years old, 5'10 and am down to 190 (down from 200) because of this song. You really struck a chord here.
This is my favorite song you’ve done.
War isn’t murder probably is “more important” but this captures the madness of modern life so so much.
The US isn't in any major wars, but is facing several health crises that are all impacted by diet, so I'd say this song is addressing one of the most pressing issues in the US.
Never mind, I forgot the US is supporting Israel
The lyrics are BRILLIANT - Back in the 50s and 60s, doctors did tell people to smoke Camel, but as Jesse sings, maybe he got the wrong pack-that's why his lungs turned black. And all that stuff they put in the food makes you addicted to it. Please just listen to the message he's conveying!
go listen to Welles - Seventeen , thank me later.
Actually sad how many people can't grasp a message that's not literally outright told to them
I am fat. It is my fault. They do feed us poison but I choose what goes in my mouth, and How much i exercise. sick song
At the end he looks left and right to see if Big Fat had found him.
I love that this song shifts the search for a solution from personal responsibility to systemic problems. We need more songs like this if we want to educate and focus Americans enough to drive change.
The media shames us on one hand and then goes to commercial to entice us with things that are bad for us but are deceptively marketed and then shames us again. It's a fantastic irony. I appreciate your songs man, hopefully literacy rates will stop plummeting at some point once education stops being defunded and we'll get more people appreciating the messages you're actually putting forth :)
Do people not get this is facetious? He's mocking the relentless victim blaming of society.
He just keeps getting better! If he’s not huge in a year then something’s really wrong with America. Oh wait… there IS something wrong with America!
damn right there is
This song single-handedly changed my mind about the obesity epidemic in America.
you do more with 2 chords than most people can with a book full of them
Objectively wrong, but i agree with your message
@@wigglypfffyea i counted more than 2. But he has a song that’s just 1 chord, and it’s a banged
@@bradenfry8939 yeaaa i didn’t mean this song specifically but i do think it’s true
His songs are actually pretty complicated. He is very good at guitar.
@@MUDBLUD_Official eh if your into folk/blues it’s pretty basic stuff but I get what you kean
I have battled the demon of obesity all my life and I very much appreciate this song. Of course I will take the blame when it comes to self control. I can't control myself, eat way too much, way too unhealthy. But like dude.... nobody can tell me that all that food in the shelf was engineered for our health.
Absolutely right, it's was actually created to be highly addictive.
Have you tried eating only produce and meats? Like only meat, fresh fruits and veggies? I ditched all chemicals and processed foods and have so much energy all my auto immune symptoms are gone! And it’s cheap!! Lettuce and tomatoes aren’t expensive especially when you buy what’s on sale
@@CMM726 There's a good reason food corporations spend hundreds of millions on marketing and advertising. 90% of people are dumb enough to fall for color theorized designs, fun buzzwords, and the coolest, latest new flavor of their trendy hot chip. Every other ad is for some junk food packaged in plastic. When's the last time you saw an ad for fresh meat or produce, outside of a sign for a local farmers market?
@@MTBTSP exactly!! People are really busy working and often don’t have time to think too much, they are just exhausted after work. But with everyone having a computer in their pocket these days there’s no excuse for ignorance. All though, all the fake studies and lies propagated by big food aren’t helping. I’ve tried sharing the truth at work and 75 percent don’t care and don’t want to change
I freaking love this. Benny Johnson told me about the song - glad he did
Could use polish, but I'm hardly a sign writer or have any talent.
Also, the "food on the shelf" is engineered to be addictive and make one sick. It's so full of toxic chemicals it makes me sick - just eat real foods.
Me too!! Here after seeing Benny's short
@@mprattyh3add me to the list. Thanks Benny! 😂
This is one of my favorites so far, succinct and thoughtful and new and classic all at the same time. Jesse does NOT miss.
Came over from Benny too!
Same here 😂
@@thevoicezjtj-999same here
Anyone claiming this song is fat-shaming lacks the capacity to understand satire. Great work crafting a song that enflames the passions of multiple groups of people. You, Jesse, have an excellent voice, classic Jim Morrison looks, and a keen mind for attacking socially relevant topics in an amusing and equally infuriating manner. Bravo!
Somwtimes he looks like John Fogerty
Not even that it's the inability to understand a message that isn't literally cut and dry spelled out for them so they grasp onto the one they assume is being told directly to them (being the sarcastic line of it's your fault you're fat)
It's not necessarily the song itself that is "fat shaming" but there are definitely people in the comments that are because of the song. So....
Another good one damn. Lyrics are insane you thought to add it all together perfectly. Such a sick twist to the feeling of insult some get and dont catch its the world being designed to kill us in complacency.
As a fat dude whose biggest insecurity is my body, its so validating to hear you say this
Just do carnivore
That won't help you one bit. If you start blaming the food industry you'll not only be obese, but also crazy.
@@Rollmops94blaming yourself for being fat doesn’t make you thin, you know. just miserable
@@rowan248 Either way its still a step in the right direction. You have to understand a problem to solve it. Also almost everything in this world gets done just because not doing it makes you feel miserable. Pain is a powerful motivator.
@raidrampant5140 blaming the world for you being fat doesn't make you thin either, it just makes you accepting and content with a form that will inevitably kill you much quicker.
"Guess he bought the wrong pack" gold
Someone in this kid family is a Jim Morrison love child!
Totally, I was thinking the same thing,
Why am I not shocked that soooo many people are misunderstanding the message behind this song, and are using it as validation of their ignorant assholery
Protect this man at all costs.
😆So good! I'm willing to bet this is the first song to feature disthetic malt and sucrose monosaccharides
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People getting mad about this song are not listening to the words! He is literally pointing out how ludicrous it is to blame the end user in a system so rigged against them from the top down
I feel less people are getting mad then it is people who are missing the message and agreeing to the chorus- you’re right, but I think you’re pointing it out to the wrong group of people.
I disagree; I think the criticisms of the system is sarcasm: ie, you can't blame a company/manufacturer/etc for decisions YOU make! Note that he also makes mention of a man ignoring a Dr.'s correct diagnosis for his health re: cigarettes.
You are fat/unhealthy/etc because of YOU, not because of some corporate boogeyman.
@@andreweff1284 I get where you’re coming from for sure, but I feel like that would be a crazy amount of irony, like, a confusing amount of irony. He says in the non chorus parts of the song that it’s “not like an evil scientist” something about making super unhealthy food, yk? And while this COULD be supposed to be taken literally, I find it kind of hard to believe. Especially since he mentions “critters and chemicals” which are both used in making processed food. Also, with the doctor thing, he mentions it’s grandpappy, which leads me to believe he may be referring to how in the 30s-50s some cigarettes were “doctor approved” hence, “I guess he bought the wrong pack” anyway, I could be wrong of course, and you’re not even replying to me in the first place, just wanted to share my opinion.
I mean, all that being said, it’s important to try to make better decisions for your health, I think he’s just, as another commenter said, pointing out the irony that when the system creates an unhealthy environment that promotes addiction, the people shouldn’t turn on each other and blame the people who get addicted. You feel?
@@Bepipen that was a really well-articulated comment and I partially agree with your points.
*HOWEVER* if you would, let me put this up for your consideration: all of the unhealthy consumer products mentioned in the song, are generally available across the US to all 340 million (approximated) people living here...yet we can adequately state that not all 340 million people are fat and/or suffering from black lung. That presumes one of two main consumer outcomes: 1) not all people are using these unhealthy products, or 2) all 340 million people ARE using said products, but are NOT being affected the same by them.
It makes much more sense to me that instance 1) is being assumed in the song, rather than instance 2). Anyway, thanks for sharing your perspective in an intelligent, well-thought-out way. 🤙
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You get it completely. The intended message was obvious as soon as I heard the lyric about the scientists, chemicals, rigorous testing. I think the verse referring to grandpappys smoking could be confusing people. I am assuming most people don't know much of the history between the tobacco industry, American Medical industry and their role in the rise of our country. America was built on tobacco and for a very long time it wasn't just dr approved but medically prescribed as a cure for a list of ailments. I don't think much was ever said publicly or better put, Allowed to be said publicly untill the 60s or 70s. I'm not certain on those exact dates but that's irrelevant. Point is you are correct his reference of tobacco use and the now elderly generation keeps pace witb the same sarcastic undertone of the rest of the song.
In defense of some of the negative comments I can say that if I did not know that bit of history and thought people always knew cigarettes were bad for you then that lyric could easily have given me the impression that the song is about personal responsibility instead of the intended exposure of corporate injustices. Again I am 100% certain this song is in defence of people suffering from the mentioned diseases/afflictions by spreading awareness to the facts that these large corporations are intentionally making their products extremely addictive.
The fact that Addiction is now medically classified as a physical disease that can permanently alters brain function in such a way that the addictive substance becomes hardwired into your central cortex while weakening the connections to the frontal cortex. To simplify that a little after a varied period of regular use your brain puts the addictive substance (whatever it may be) into the same part of your brain that tells you your thirsty or hungry. You don't think about being thirsty but if you go long enough without drinking anything your brain makes damn sure your body knows it needs water to survive. It's hard to imagine unless youve experienced it but your brain starts doing the same thing for a chemical it has become addicted to and over time this subconscious survival instinct gets stronger and at the same time this portion of your brains connection to the reasoning/thinking section of your brain that says we'll actually we don't need this to survive infact it's bad gets weaker and eventually severed so bad that your brain demands the addictive substance and will go absolutly haywire without it the same as it would if you tried to intentionally deny it oxygen. You cant hold your breath untill you die because your brain will take control despite your every intention to deny it. Replace oxygen with heroin in that scenario. Try as hard as you can to deny your brain something it's been convinced it needs to live and it goes into survival mode where it will very literally and physically make you suffer in unimaginable ways untill you give it what it needs.
I Apologize for going deep into that small peice of my originally intended comment but what better place to try and spread awareness than in the comments on video of a song about awareness.
Diabetus rhyme with Jesus was just… lol
These are real songs.
Straight from the heart.
I saw a short saying you got canceled. My first thought was this somg must be a grade A banger. Keep it up, brother, you aint doin nothin wrong. 🤙🏻
A lot of people seem to be missing half the joke here. Cola-Cola just walked in with the results… nobody? Nobody?
True, a significant half of the joke is that this is the result of a study conducted by high fructose inc.
Did this guy just time travel from 1974 ? 😃
No, he’s still there, they just keep finding these videos buried in his back yard.
the sad way he sings ‘shame shame shame’ makes me want to be a better person
That falsetto “fault” was a nice surprise. Haven’t seen you do that before, very well done!
You can tell he's trying not to laugh at the beginning. Give-away that it's irony.
I love this song, but I really hope people dont confused about the messaging here! I think the lyrics are incredibly creative. Keep up the great work!
i'm just glad we're all here to witness this dude invent culture. keep having fun and keep love in your heart.
Wow. You people act so full of yourselves.
@@Rollmops94 huh? come again? i think youre confused. please elaborate.
@@Rollmops94 by you people do you mean intelligent, successful writers? i mean thanks for putting me in the same category as jesse here but i'm not gen z bob dylan he is. im just published in literary journals a whole bunch.
A singer who actually has something to sing about? Haven't seen this one in a while.
I think we just found the next ‘‘Rich Men North of Richmond.‘‘
0:33 "self investigation, like a Florida sheriff station...." Nice verse. So far you always incorporate at least one poetically powerful verse in each tune. My synapses appreciate this and my fingers colloborate to initiate this written text. Inspired the rise of the reclining ibex, previously hidden in my minds deepest dephs. Before I wrote that, I believed the metaphor to be in keeping with the context. But now upon reading I just think I digressed, should lie less and have a reader to digest.
We tried God, and the dog didnt pass the goddamn test. Now its down to the song to keep us blessed. And the singer of the song will teach us this. The messages in the frequency's will reach us yes. The Hertz can hurt us, if not in vibrational harmony with how we resonate inately.
Anyway, ahumen and mmuch love
I didn’t even realize till yesterday this man has a BADASS rock career too! He’s a musical chameleon and a serious poet. I aspire to be able to write with the amount of authenticity that this man has.
For those who don’t understand. He isn’t fat shaming you for not being able to lose weight or trying. He’s using satire to adress how companies put what ever they want in food aslong as it doesn’t kill you or taste horrible and there’s not much you can do about it
Except in America, the additives really will kill you, slowly and brutally through cancer. They only get to fly through standards here because our government agencies are corrupt and allow corporations to literally write their own rules and regulations.
66 years old - God I missed this kind of music 👍👍👍
He looks a lot like Jim Morrison, and writes like Bob Dylan! Love this guy❤
Better than Dylan, since these originals aren’t plagerized from blues oldies
I show Jesse to my conservative friends and they don't like him because they think he's liberal, and my liberal friends don't like him because they think he's conservative
❤❤ So good
all voting options back Israel.
Your friends sound like idiots
the amount of people completely missing the point is amazing
Not really, unfortunately they walk among us in droves.
Wait, what are you gonna tell me next, the Colbert Report was satire?? That Ron Swanson supposed to be a caricature?? That I'm not supposed to stan Walt from Breaking Bad, but be horrified that I'm identifying with him??? Say it ain't so 😮😮😮
I saw this clipped somewhere else and I searched for it to give it a like, I'm fat and a smoker, truth deserves publicizing, especially in this evil ungodly world!