"Holiday in Cambodia" was the only Dead Kennedys' song to have a music video. The video intersperses footage of the band playing the song with real-life scenes from the Vietnam war, complete with moshpit-like footage of rioters at the U.S embassy when the music gets heavy.
The song appears to be an attack upon both Eastern totalitarianism and Western complacency. The song's lyrics offer a satirical view of the young, self-righteous American upper class (So you been to school/For a year or two/And you know you’ve seen it all/In daddy’s car/Thinkin’ you’ll go far...) and contrast such a lifestyle with a brutal depiction of the horrible Pol Pot regime of Cambodia (Well you’ll work harder/With a gun in your back/For a bowl of rice a day/Slave for soldiers/Till you starve/Then your head is skewered on a stake).
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aidosEssential Kennedys
PostMortemLONG LIVE JELLO BIAFRA!!! Fuck the rest of the Dead Kennedys!
bamdrew(a lot of the footage interspersed is not "real-life", including most of the explosion footage... the poor quality and shakiness of some of the film scenes are decent indicator when it was truly shot in Vietnam by journalists)
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