The video depicts the story of a woman rebelling against the societal values that are forced upon her. She is seen to drop her glass of wine which shortly after falls onto the faces of the band that are positioned underneath the room, her dropping the glass symbolises how she doesn’t want to be caught up in the expectations of society. As the gallon barrels of wine are spilled, the band soon get completely drenched in the wines of society, this represents how many people dump their values onto other people and force their views upon them without giving much of a choice or consideration towards the person of whom they are doing so to. As the woman breaks through the floor into the room of which the band were playing in, it represents the escape from what she was once captured in, it conveys that she no longer wants to be held in a place she doesn’t feel she belongs. The dropping of the glass and the pouring of the wine barrels have very different connotations. The glass shatters spilling the wine, showing how the values (represented by the wine) which were once contained no longer have a place in the thoughts of the woman. The downpour from the wine barrels however connotes how one value is applied to all and forced upon them, as the band are underneath the high flyers of society and they are singing about rebellion and drugs etc, the wine is dumped upon them as a way of drenching them in the ideas of which they should be following. The fact that the band are no longer in the room at the end of the song implies that they fled from the values of which were placed upon them, showing that if you try you can escape them.
The whole song is about breaking the mould and not exactly fitting in to the ‘social norm’. The last line of the song says “if she had the chance to live it all over again you know she wouldn’t change anything for the world” fitting with the video as it shows how she wasn’t conforming to what she was expected to do, she didn’t give in to the pressure exhumed on her by the male character, nor did she stand for the moral values of those she was with, so she broke free and broke out. It’s about not apologising for being who you are and making the decisions that are best for you, for making the decisions that allow you to live your life how you wish. The whole video also relates to the values of the band themselves as they are of the punk genre the music they create and the messages they send out are a rebellion against the world in which they live. There is a reference made in the song through the lyrics to the Billy Idol song ‘Rebel Yell’ which was released in 1983, those lyrics being “She can still hear that rebel yell just as loud as it was in 1983”. Billy Idol made his fame during the punk rock era, leading a new generation forward in their thinking. The reference was made as way of paying tribute to the founding members of the punk scene. Lyrics in Rebel Yell that relate to the song/video are “She don’t like slavery, she won’t sit and beg” thus making a link to what is being discussed in the song Thrash Unreal about not wanting to be placed under the confinements of the society in which she lives in.
The whole song is about breaking the mould and not exactly fitting in to the ‘social norm’. The last line of the song says “if she had the chance to live it all over again you know she wouldn’t change anything for the world” fitting with the video as it shows how she wasn’t conforming to what she was expected to do, she didn’t give in to the pressure exhumed on her by the male character, nor did she stand for the moral values of those she was with, so she broke free and broke out. It’s about not apologising for being who you are and making the decisions that are best for you, for making the decisions that allow you to live your life how you wish. The whole video also relates to the values of the band themselves as they are of the punk genre the music they create and the messages they send out are a rebellion against the world in which they live. There is a reference made in the song through the lyrics to the Billy Idol song ‘Rebel Yell’ which was released in 1983, those lyrics being “She can still hear that rebel yell just as loud as it was in 1983”. Billy Idol made his fame during the punk rock era, leading a new generation forward in their thinking. The reference was made as way of paying tribute to the founding members of the punk scene. Lyrics in Rebel Yell that relate to the song/video are “She don’t like slavery, she won’t sit and beg” thus making a link to what is being discussed in the song Thrash Unreal about not wanting to be placed under the confinements of the society in which she lives in.
The song itself was released in October 2007 and was released as a downloadable track for the Rock Band video game series in March 2009. The fact that the song was used in the game two years after release meant that the song got a second signal boost and there for more views on the video, the game was used as a way to promote the song.