We’ve repeatedly called for more Zombie Friendly music here at the ZRC, and have made an effort to get to know the work of Zombie Friendly groups like Rainbow Destroyer and Dr. Cancer and the SKAmbies. This means we’re always on the look out for more Zombie related songs.

Unfortunately, as often as not, we find Anti-Zombie music instead, like ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ by Kirby Krackle or ‘Z-Day: The Zombie Musical’.

That was sadly the case today when we stumbled upon “Zombie Love Song” by ‘Your Favorite Martian’, a cartoon-band entity that is apparently the product of an internet personality, Ray William Johnson.

All starts out well enough, in the song and the video. A Zombie plaintively writes a love letter to his intended beloved online, chatting with her on Facebook (or something very much like it), trying to convince her to look past the whole ectothermia thing (or is it poikilothermia?)

Then midway through the song it suddenly becomes clear: our alleged Zombie character singing the song? He wants, of course, to eat her brains.

Big surprise.

Some of the lyrics are particularly offensive:

So give me a chance girl,
You know I’ll be worth it,
Yeah I’m a Zombie baby — ain’t nobody perfect!

I’ll chase you through the yard and
all through the house into the dark
oh – I – want to steal your heart
And eat your brains.

The ZRC is saddened most of all by the lost opportunity presented here. It’s a catchy tune and a well-animated video, and with a more positive outlook, one featuring a relationship based on mutual respect and less on devouring grey matter, this song and video could have made a positive difference for The Cause. The video also raises the spectre of Living-Undead relationships (what I’ve recently seen called ‘mixed mortality’ which is cute but too hung up on death for the ZRC’s taste). Why is it so terrifying that Zombies might want to have romantic relationships with Living people?

And why is it that it’s almost always a *male* Zombie and a female Living person? Is this a revival of old stereotypes about some nebulous ‘They’ that wants ‘our women’?

This song could have helped fight negative stereotyping like that, but instead it’s yet another wasted opportunity and more Anti-Zombie prejudice marketed with catchy pop music.

For those reasons the ZRC has given the song and video our second-lowest rating, marking it forever in shame as being officially Anti-Zombie.

To enable you watch for yourself, and be suitably offended, I have embedded it below.

Tags: Music, Youtube Mischief

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