Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll stop after this comment but the peace symbol would be too à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“hippy,dippyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  for an government official to use.

That sounds like you are concurring with the idea that the symbol has cultural as well as political baggage associated with it.

However, here in the States it has lost much of its original meaning and is now used on fashion shirts, earrings, bags, etc.

I’m not sure if this is any more signficant than the way many people would wear the cross simply as a fashion accessory rather than for its religious content. I’m sure a lot of Americans are unaware of the full meaning of the CND peace sign, but I do think the proof of the claim that the sign only mean peace to Americans would be to show that this is how the American officialdom sees the sign. Frankly, I very much doubt the American Government would use the sign in any official manner in public events, but I would interested to be proved wrong. If anyone has any evidence to that effect I would be intrigued to see it, especially if its use comes from the Bush era government organised events (this is not an invitation to discuss the Bush era, I’m just interested to see if there is any such evidence).

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Well, Lys, Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m 61 years old, college educated, world traveled, a white collar professional, well read and until this thread I had no idea that the peace symbol I grew up with meant nuclear disarmament.

Although I am not as old as you, I am pretty much the same and I also had no idea what the original meaning was. To most Americans, it is just symbol of peace. Honestly I wouldn’t be suprised if David would like to have nuclear disarmament. Wouldn’t we all be happier if the world was that way, even if it isn’t practical?

Heck, I’m twenty years old, I consider myself to be a fairly normal person, and I didn’t know what the peace sign originally meant until now. All the peace sign means to me is just that… peace. *shrugs*

Archie is quite knowledgable about musical history. He might even surprise people and know the origin of the sign. How about someone find out if Allison knows what it means. And then if she doesn’t we can assume she’s kind of stupid and naive.

I wanted to ask the same thing. Are they abandoning ALTNOY as a single? Is this a quick and cheap way to get a new song out there as a replacement single? Or is this specifically for a particular place where TMH is popular? Or as also posited upthread, the video is targeted specifically to build up and expand his teen audience?

ALTNOY is already done on radio, so there’s no need to abandon it. I don’t think this was intended as a quick and cheap way to get a new song out. It was Jive’s intention from the get-go to film TMH at the HOB in order to make a video–that was communicated to the fans at the concert. For what reason is still uncertain. Frankly I’ll be very surprised if Jive decides to release TMH to radio or if it does, I suspect it will be released only to Radio Disney.

I buy the theory that it may be intended for the overseas markets as TMH already has gotten a lot of play in Europe and Asia.

And. I just banned somebody!

Well . . . um . . . back to the video. Any theories about why it was made? Not just to go on his Youtube channel, right?

I wanted to ask the same thing. Are they abandoning ALTNOY as a single? Is this a quick and cheap way to get a new song out there as a replacement single? Or is this specifically for a particular place where TMH is popular? Or as also posited upthread, the video is targeted specifically to build up and expand his teen audience?

Then there would be world peace.

Don’t forget the symbol! :thumbup_tb: