Man - So American [Official Music Video]

Official Music Video for “So American“ by Portugal. The Man off their album, In The Mountain In The Cloud. Download/Stream: Our new album “Chris Black Changed My Life“ coming June 23rd Pre-order now- Subscribe for more official content from Portugal. The Man: Follow Portugal. The Man Website: FB: IG: TW: SC: TikTok: @portugaltheman Directed By: Nik Zografos Lyrics: If pain was a color to paint on you Your heart would be the color blue Be a painting, hung up there ’til your body met your head Which were made of silver You are the one they call Jesus Christ Who didn’t know no rock and roll Just a mission made of guns that they give boys in Vietnam But they always told him There’s a madness in us all There’s a madness in us all So Who broke the rules? Who broke the rules? Who broke the rules? They said Every one of you will never try to lend a hand When the policemen don’t understand Oh, you boys, all you boys Think you’re so American Girls, all you girls They’re so American He may not be born of this land But he was born of this world He was born of all the mothers And the colors of our brothers And the love that we sent him You are the one they call Jesus Christ You may not know no rock and roll There may not be a heaven or a place in which to send you But you know in the end There’s a madness in us all There’s a madness in us all There’s a madness in us all There’s a madness in us all So Who broke the rules? Who broke the rules? Who broke the rules? They say Every one of you will never try to lend a hand When the policemen don’t understand Boys, all you boys Think you’re so American Girls, all you girls Yeah, you’re so American There’s two eyes for every one of us But somebody got there first and took them all There’s two eyes for every one of us But somebody got there first and took them all Man, oh, man Think you’re so American Man, oh, man Yeah, you’re so American Man, oh, man You think you’re so American Man, oh, man Yeah, you’re so American There’s two eyes for every one of us But somebody got there first and took them all There’s two eyes for every one of us But somebody got there first and took them all The official YouTube channel of Atlantic Records artist Portugal. The Man. Subscribe for the latest music videos, performances, and more. Portugal. The Man took 2017 by the horns after a considerably long gap, between records. They spent years working on an album called Gloomin Doomin before later developing what would become known as their latest studio album WOODSTOCK. Fate struck lead singer, John Gourley, twice. First, John got some parental tough love from his old man. “What’s taking so long to finish the album?,” John’s dad asked. “Isn’t that what bands do? Write songs and then put them out?” The whole thing got John thinking about why the band seemed to be stuck on a musical elliptical machine from hell and more importantly, about how to get off of it. Second, John found his dad’s ticket stub from the original 1969 Woodstock music festival, which ultimately knocked something loose in his head. He realized that, in the same tradition of bands from that era, Portugal. The Man needed to speak out about the world crumbling around them. With these two ideas converging, the band made a seemingly bat-shit-crazy decision: they took all of the work they had done for the three years prior and threw it out. The band went back to the studio – working with John Hill, Danger Mouse and longtime collaborator Casey Bates. In this new-found creative territory, the album that became WOODSTOCK rolled out naturally from there. Fast forward to present day and it was impossible to escape the album’s first single “Feel It Still,” which dominated the charts and radio airwaves in 2017. The 6X Platinum Certified hit reigned at #1 at nearly all radio formats, including Top 40, as well as Alternative, where the song held the chart’s top spot for a mind-blowing 20 weeks, breaking the record for most weeks at #1. Yes, you read that right. 5 guys from Wasilla, Alaska who have played nearly 1,500 shows in their career broke Alternative radio records and had a #1 song at Pop radio. Billboard Magazine even went as far as to call the song, “the unexpected rock crossover hit of 2017,” while Rolling Stone listed it as “one of the best songs of 2017.” AND THEN…the band kicked off 2018 by winning a GRAMMY Award for “Feel It Still.” WOODSTOCK has since been certified gold, as has their second single “Live In The Moment”. #SoAmerican #PortugalTheMan #TheresAMadnessInUsAll #InTheMountainInTheClouds #OfficialMusicVideo #AtlanticRecords