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"Another Brick in the Wall" is a three-part composition on Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall, written by the bassist, Roger Waters. "Part 2", a protest song against corporal punishment and rigid and abusive schooling, features a children's choir.
"Brick" is a song by American alternative rock group Ben Folds Five. It was released in November 1997 as a single from their album Whatever and Ever Amen and later on Ben Folds Live . [ 2 ] The verses were written by Ben Folds about his high school girlfriend getting an abortion , and the chorus was written by the band's drummer, Darren Jessee .
The music video for the song features Daniel Ilabaca escaping school (which connects to the original song's theme) while doing parkour stunts. They sneak into a number of apartments and perform energy efficient tasks, such as replacing lightbulbs with their energy efficient equivalent, turning down thermostats, turning off televisions, putting bricks in toilets (to save water), etc.
The song was issued almost five months after "Concrete and Clay"; Tracy notes the long gap in between singles, during an era where a band was expected to issue singles within two month intervals. [15] As "Concrete and Clay" was still in the charts in the US during May 1965, the band's US label London Records postponed the release until July 1965.
The main characters consist of a range of different construction equipment. They are as follows: Diggs is a blue male backhoe loader; Bozer is a red male bulldozer; Scooch is an orange male dumper
The "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" video was directed by Jim Shea, and aired for the first time in January 1999. As the recordings took place in November 1998, Class of '99 is now notable for being Staley's final appearance in the studio prior to his death from a drug overdose in April 2002.
Each half-hour video featured around 10 songs in a music video style production starring a group of children known as the "Kidsongs Kids". They sing and dance their way through well-known children's songs, nursery rhymes and covers of pop hits from the '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s, all tied together by a simple story and theme.
The song is a power ballad, centering on a main theme of child abuse. The narrator tells a story about a little girl who endures severe abuse. The abuse is silently questioned by her teachers and neighbors, but goes unreported. By the song's end, the girl dies and goes on to an afterlife where "she is loved" more than she was on earth.