I propose a game...

[Earth_First]

1 -Post a link to a YouTube music video

2 -The video will be someway related to a current event news story...

3 -Your guess follows the link...

Ready?

Go...

[Boom Sound 416]

1. I'll roll

[Chan790]

3. That one is easy.

Zombie by The Cranberries is about the oppression and guerrilla resistance on both sides during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. More precisely how tired of it all the civilians stuck in the middle were and simply wanting an end to the conflict.

You're drawing an allegory to the conflict in the Gaza Strip.

[Boom Sound 416]

4. Drink!

You got it.

[Chan790]

2. This is about the Ebola epidemic?

That's my guess.

The funny part about that song...it's not really about Africa per se. It's about "... a white boy is trying to write a song on Africa, but since he's never been there, he can only tell what he's seen on TV or remembers in the past." (description from Wikipedia of what the song is about according to Jeff Pocorro, the keyboardist for Toto, who wrote it.) That's why the whole song is one long romanticized trope of Africa that sounds like something out of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

[trof]

6. 'persay' It's 'per se'. Sorry, grammar nazi?

Being such inherently, clearly, or as a matter of law <a per se conflict of interest>
Also "by itself" or "in itself". Without referring to anything else, intrinsically, taken without qualifications etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_se_%28terminology%29#per_se

[Chan790]

7. Fixed. n/t

[Earth_First]

10. Indeed it is about the humanitarian crisis in W. Africa.

Song meaning aside.

[Boom Sound 416]

5. Ok, here we go. Still level 1

[Earth_First]

9. NSA surveillance... nt

[Boom Sound 416]

11. Point, but

You could have qualified for the extra bonus points bonus if you had mentioned Senator Feinstein.

[Earth_First]

14. I'll take partial credit... nt

[clarice]

8. Eagles. nt

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[Boom Sound 416]

12. Let's take it to two

[Callmecrazy]

13. I was going to post Africa too...

but I like this version much better.

[marzipanni]

17. I thought of that version, too. I love it! n/t

[orleans]

15. here's a tricky one

[pinboy3niner]

16. American exceptionalism. nt