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When the site was chosen, that a lot of people chose the filming site, because it has a beautiful clock tower, it is kind of like the clock tower you see on the universal lot or something. but whether they knew about it or not, i can believe they didn't actually mean to evoke historical lynching when they chose that site, but you know, there's enough that is problematic and disturbing about the song and the video even without reading that sort of deliberate racism and dog whistles into it. i mean at worst, you know, it has this racial tinge with lines like see how far you make it down the road...