dragontamer5788 wrote:BasharOfTheAges wrote:I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it wasn't that they were laughing at his death, but, rather, they thought you were going with an implied yaoi subtext angle.
That's a good point.
The first time I heard the song (months ago on the radio), I thought it was a love song. But as the rap begins and the lyrics come out, it becomes clear that it is a "bro" song... no homo (seriously).
I don't think it's a "bro" song just because it has a rapping part in the middle. I just thought the rapping was appropriate given the film franchise it was written for and who it was written for.
(I took issue with people laughing through most of "The Hero You're Dreaming Of" that I made two years ago. I got over it, but still, I don't like how with certain pairings there has to be some kind of implied and insulting "no homo" when certain songs are used.)
So if a good chunk of the audience wasn't familiar with the song, its probably easy for them to think it was a Yaoi thing. After the song is played, they realize how well it matched and then voted for the video?
I really didn't think the audience was laughing at that angle. I saw nothing that indicated there was some sort of implied or explicit yaoi thing at all. I guess it was just funny that they were "singing these lines" while there was a huge gaping hole in Goku's chest.
Although not having seen Furious 7, I knew this song was one of those songs you hear after someone close to you has passed away. It was used at AMA as the tribute song/video for Big Danny T (well-known regular con goer in Virginia and very good friend) who died last Halloween. I would think with as many people that saw Furious 7, they knew going in what kind of song it was, and at first was laughing because Krillin seemed to be the fodder for this song at first glance, which is why some of the audience was laughing at that point. Again, Team Four Star seems to have corrupted people's thoughts about Dragon Ball Z.
