One ounce of critical thinking…

I thought the meaning was completely obvious.

Another great song that will be ruined by tick tok

Sing along with the common people
Sing along and it might just get you through

The influencers were likely paid to get the phrase "Common people" to go viral. Negative attention is still attention. It is a standard tactic to put a deliberate mistake so others will post videos correcting the mistake. This could all be on purpose.

I don't know who I actually hate worse these days. The guys with no media literacy of the guy who only know media literacy

Obligatory Shatner cover where he really sells that feeling of scrambling off a madman's property while he flings lawn furniture at you. 

TikTok influencers don't represent an entire people.

Plenty of Americans have known this popular song for quite some time and have always understood it. We aren't all just now discovering a song we don't understand just because he saw a handful of young Tiktok users made some uniformed 10 second videos recently.

Same with “Fortunate Son”, “Born in the USA”, a plethora of Rage Against the Machine songs. Dumbfucks who can’t read between the lines.

The My Chemical Romance cover was recorded live in BBC Radio 1, they are not promoting the song, I don't think they are 'paying influencers to promote the song', now, Tik Tok influencers taking the song and misinterpreted is another topic.

Listen, the definitive cover has already been done anyway by William Shatner, Joe Jackson (the English one, not the horrible dad from Indiana) and produced by Ben Folds. Like, it's legitimately really really good.

Also, the fun little note about the song is that the real story is that the singer was interested in a posh girl who didn't actually want anything to do with him, so the song isn't actually biographical in any way, but is more of a fantasy. Still one of my favorite songs and has a very VERY clear message for the song, but the story behind it is kind of funny.