Terrible Sons - The World is Walking Over Us

What this video is

Released in 2020 amid global pandemic-era economic disruption, 'The World is Walking Over Us' positions Terrible Sons — a husband-and-wife duo living in an intentional Christian community near Christchurch, New Zealand — within a lineage of folk protest music. The song explicitly addresses the widening wealth gap, drawing on folk tradition to give political weight to a sound otherwise known for intimate…

Why it matters

Represents a significant aesthetic and thematic pivot within Terrible Sons' catalog — their first self-described protest song — and within the broader Aotearoa indie-folk scene's engagement with socio-political subject matter. The track connects New Zealand's folk-pop tradition to international…