Rage Against the Machine for Christmas No. 1!

Eh I still think Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip did the best job at taking the piss out of the X-Factor.

For people who aren't aware of them they're an electronic/hip-hop duo from Scotland, Dan Le Sac is the DJ and Scroobius Pip is the MC. Now they're both kind of goofy looking, Pip's got this massive beard and a thick Scottish accent so automatically you're thinking "Ok what's the guy thinking?". So they do this spoof of the X-Factor where it looks like they're auditioning, but they're actually using spliced up footage (you can tell by the judges changing costumes) of "Ain't No Fun" by Snoop Dogg. The entire performance is pretty horrible, they're just swaying a little bit and snapping their fingers, then occasionally there will be a bleeped out word. Needless to say the judges are quite perplexed and say no. As they're walking out, one of the songs from their album starts playing and then you realize that it's a plug for their new album! Absolutely brilliant, using the X-Factor to plug your album, totally taking the piss out of it. Now that's how it's done!

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yes, let's all celebrate pop music's ineptitude by playing a single to death by a washed-up 90s American alt-rock group. it's only seventeen years old, after all.
 
I don't give a **** either, but then again, even with that in mind, x-factor is IMPOSSIBLE to ignore. Literally. You could wall yourself in your house with a hose and a crate of supernoodles, kettle at the ready with a vat of coca cola, and you would STILL somehow find out what was going on on x-factor. Its THAT bloody annoying.

With that in mind, can you understand why some of us are jumping at the chance to knock it around a little for the sake of making a point? The only reason these crappy singles are getting anywhere is because they have what is basically the worlRAB biggest ad campaign behind them. An ad campaign which makes money on its own no less, which then releases a single which makes even MORE money and gives us yet ANOTHER mediocre celebrity C-Lister to show up everywhere for the next year or two.

And no it won't make the industry as a whole sit up and take notice of how pissed off a lot of fans are at the mickey mouse operation the UK business has become, but god damn its better than nothing.


And Dave - refer to my above comment. Your mcdonalRAB analogy isn't quite valid. I for one don't care if people listen to pop music or not, i like a lot of pop acts to be honest, but its not a case of 'someone sitting there eating a big mac' as if its an unobtrusive and ignorable thing.

Its a case of twenty people sat around you, ALL eating big macs, while talking about eating big macs, then when they've finished eating, they turn around to discuss how that big mac compared to the one they ate five minutes earlier, at length and in great insufferable detail, while STILL somehow managing to not even touch on one aspect of the taste or nutrition, judging their big mac solely on how hilarious it looked or how pristine perfect it was in its portrayal of big macness. I have honestly TRIED to avoid knowing anything about x-factor this year. I have still failed because people INSIST on discussing it with me. They will ask me if I've seen it and when I say no they WILL TELL ME ABOUT IT.
 
I think you're missing the point. Of course it would be better to have something new and exciting and maybe even Christmassy. But part of the idea is to prove that anything can make no.1 with the right amount of promotion (and what is X-factor after all but 12 or so weeks of promotion for a bland cover of a bland song?). I think that KitN was chosen precisely for its inappropriateness.
 
You're missing the point. THis isn't about who gets the money, its about not having another bland and boring pop star shoved down our throats. Simon Cowell owns the rights to jeff buckley's hallelujah when that was christmas nuraber 2 or 3 last year for the same reason. People bought it KNOWING that.
 
That's the sound of another 1000 Rage fans emptying their wallets at HMV.

I used to enjoy the Christmas chart battles, it's the only time of the year when the charts are genuinely interesting and get people talking about pop music again. I'm backing Rage, because the Joe McElderry song is absolutely terrible. Hopefully next year when there is inevitably another campaign to stop the X Factor getting to nuraber one, they will choose an actual Christmas song rather than political rap metal.
 
I don't know anything about this British stuff but I think I can assume I like this song a lot more than whatever else would have been #1... :band:
 
Not going to read the whole thread, but its nice to see a change at the nuraber one spot for Christmas. Year after year of Simon Cowell acts getting the spot does take the piss, and thats saying something considering all the dross that has had the Christmas Nuraber One spot over the years.

I do question the merit of a song practically owned by a huge label, getting this kind of a publicity drive to out do another song owned by a huge label, maybe even the same label, who knows!

I would have prefered energies being aimed at a more rags to riches story, maybe some obscure small time Indie band from up North or something.

But anyhow, still nice news all the same
 
Who's dictating what you get to hear? Is it the music industries duty to provide you with quality songs. Are they some kind of public service, and they need to be held accountably?..what a crock of ****.
 
Well, yeah, I think the idea of picking a song including that is as a big '**** you' to Simon Cowell and his X-factor empire. Of course, there is an irony in millions of people going out and downloading something else because they're told to, which I'm sure is not lost on most people. Although there is a difference between doing what you're told by the advertising industry and some random group on facebook. But it's still funny.
 
Why does this matter? I thought most people listen to what they want to listen to anyway...unless they have some obligation to listen to whatever song is no.1 on the charts.
 
Read the above for an explanation of exactly why this phenomena pisses people off man. It is absolutely 100% inescapable. I haven't watched TV regularly in 5 years, my TV at home isn't even plugged in and I do all of my show watching through downloaRAB and DVRAB. I could not possibly be further removed from X-Factor unless I were to cut off contact with everyone I know.

Despite this, facebook, family, frienRAB, and even random strangers on trains, or taxi drivers, all conspire to ENSURE that every single week, WITHOUT FAIL, I know what has just happened on the X-Factor. Then, without fail, the X-Factor single, another pedestrian, dull, boring cover of another far more interesting classic song to which Simon Cowell owns the rights, is christmas nuraber one, and it becomes nigh on impossible to escape its musical butchery if placed within earshot of a radio for more than ten minutes.
 
yeah that lyric was most of my exact comment the last time this exact same thread popped up on these forums (about a week and a half ago).
 
Awful stuff.The fact an overplayed 17-year old heavy metal standard can make it to nuraber 1 will only irabue adolescent tossers convinced of their genius with the confidence to form even more crap metal banRAB.
 
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