Nothing To Lose

Bullying in movies is seen as something funny, something that the jocks do to the typical nerds to show that they are better than them. Typically the nerds/geeks that are bullied in schools in the media do not respond to proportions that would be typical in everyday life. In the movie Can't Hardly Wait the nerds just plan to take "racey" photos of the jocks. Jocks who usually beat up the nerd are glorified and the nerds in all media are usually expected to laugh about it later on which is not realistic. Reality usually ends in more awful conditions such as suicide or murder. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among teens between 15 to 24. The ratio of teen sucide from male to female is 7:1. The two top leaders of teenage death are unintentional injury and homicide. While a lot of the media aims toward the lighthearted haha bullying is funny, it does not deal with the real truth of bullying leading to depression, anger, murder and suicide. This is why I love the Billy Talent song from their first album "Nothing to Lose."

"Nothing To Lose"

Need more friends with wings

All the angels I know

Put concrete in my veins

I’d always walk home alone

So I became lifeless

Just like my telephone

There’s nothing to lose

When no one knows your name

There’s nothing to gain

But the days don’t seem to change

Never played truth or dare

I’d have to check my mirror

To see if I’m still here

My parents had no clue

That I ate all my lunches

Alone in the bathroom

There’s nothing to lose

When no one knows your name

There’s nothing to gain

But the days don’t seem to change

There’s nothing to lose

My notebook will explain

There’s nothing to gain

And I can’t fight the pain

Teachers said "it's just a phase"

When I grow up my children

Will probably do the same

Kids just love to tease

Who'd know it put me underground at seventeen

There’s nothing to lose

When no one knows your name

There’s nothing to gain

But the days don’t seem to change

There’s nothing to lose

My notebook will explain

There’s nothing to gain

And I can’t fight the pain

There’s nothing to lose

When no one knows your name

There’s nothing to gain

But the days don’t seem to change

There’s nothing to lose

My notebook will explain

There’s nothing to lose

When no one knows your name

There’s nothing to gain

And I just died today

I think that more media should be open to the fact that bullying and suicide and murder are real in this society and start paying attention to the real fact that these things are not funny... like the movies try to make them. Billy Talent's song Nothing To Lose makes the argument against the media that teenage suicide is here..........

The Bottome Line: Billy Talent rocks and the fact they are addressing teenage suicide is awsome!