Students Against the Abuse of Sigur Ros
SATAOSR is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending the abuse of Sigur Ros songs in popular culture.
We are dedicated to preventing anymore videos featuring the song Hoppipolla and other sonically mind-blowing tracks by Sigur Ros from ever being produced. It is Sigur Ros Abuse (SRA) at its finest.
Taken from their pristine and untouched land of Iceland, Sigur Ros has been exploited and in danger of being completely void of all cultural meaning by the West. Sigur Ros thrives on “chill” atmospheres and “relaxed dudes”, but when maimed and processed into popular culture it loses its unique, progressive sound.
Our movement began in 2007 when we learned of Sigur Ros from the Slumdog Millionaire Trailer (like everyone else) and then realized that every other person at our university had gone and dried up the “Sigur Ros wells”. We were furious to find that the song was ravenously being overplayed.
There was the “great murder of ‘08” resulting in countless Study Abroad collages like Brian Chen’s “Adventures in Munich” and Chris Logston’s “Beijing Summer ‘07 Blast”. Not to mention the massacre that was the FIFA World Cup ‘06 advertisements.
Young 20 somethings racing to find any excuse to utilize the band’s delicate orchestral movement, its breathtaking grandeur, and its ultimately, beautifully enchanting melodies. It’s ability to capture one’s heart and mind was something so rare, it had to be exploited.
Today we live in a world where murderous Environmental Conservation Groups take innocent Sigur Ros tracks and place them against their will in their Public Service Announcements; where youtube users violently mangle SR tracks to compliment their timelapse and “High School Memories” videos; and films like Children of Men can look at themselves in the mirror and say, “I lived a good life”.
A sick, twisted travesty to say the least.
We are dedicated to returning Sigur Ros to where it belongs. In the dorm rooms of blazed out Sophomores who are “looking to trip far beyond the reaches of reality”. To return these songs to their rightful place—the backseat of a Honda Civic to compliment a young couple’s love-making session. To return them to their homes in every College Campus’s Co-Op Commune.
Please if you are as disgusted as we are in the treatment of Sigur Ros songs and wish to return them to their rightful homes, then join our cause.
Watch our PSA video for more information on what you can do to help. (Note: We realize that in our informational video we use the Sigur Ros song, Hoppipolla, to make our point. We realize the irony in this, but so what dickbag? You were moved weren’t you?!)
Please help, if not for our sake, then for our grandchildren’s sake.
