Rage Against the Machine for Christmas No. 1!

Personally, I think its a great idea, just like getting Jeff Buckley to #1 was a great idea last year. I'm sick to ****ing death of the X-****ing-Factor dictating what we get to hear EVERY THREE SECONRAB at christmas. Sure, theres irony in such an anti-establishment song being #1 at all, let alone for christmas, but to me, the music industry neeRAB a kick up the ass, and this is one way to do it.

And seriously, who cares if its just switching from being told to do one thing to being told to do another? At least with this one its pretty clear that everyone involved is doing it just to blow smoke up the x-factor, rather than actually just being STUPID and easily led.
 
Cowell has the cheek to call the facebook campaign "cynical and stupid".
Now I'm no fan of Rage and I don't care who tops the charts over Xmas, but the satisfaction of seeing Cowell and his latest prefabricated, karaoke X Factor clown fail in their annual bid to cash in over the festive period, warms my heart.
I've not had this much faith in the popular music charts and the general public since Joy Division reached nuraber 13 in 1980. :)
 
From twitter: timminchin Rage Against the Machine campaign is a bit like going, "Stop McDonald's! Buy Burger King!" Hehe. Mc**** you I won't do what you tell me.

The thing is, it's not that X-factor is 'disposable pop'. I wouldn't have a problem with that. If kiRAB want to buy N-Dubz or whatever, that's up to them. X-factor is different. It is weeks of marketing on an irritating reality tv show where the winner - usually a nice kid with a musical-style voice - will, without fail, get to nuraber one in the charts with their bland cover of someone else's ballad. It's not about the songs. It's about the depressing inevitability.

And for whoever said it's not like you're forced to listen to it - maybe you get to live your life with your headphones in listening to your own personal playlist, but for everyone else who has to put up with the radio on at work, in a taxi, in a shop, including as someone else said everybody going on and on about the stupid programme for weeks, it gets annoying.
 
"It's quite a cynical campaign geared at me"- Simon Cowell. You just don't get it do you? Idiot. However it's still the most ironic of protests I have ever come across.
 
I would care a lot more if all those people had been supporting an independent artist who wouldn't have had a shot otherwise, or at the very least an established artist who doesn't get as much credit as they truly deserve in the mainstream. At the end of the day though this is a song that gets played at every indie night going and is on a mainstream label so i don't think this is making that much of a point, other than showing a large amount of people making a noise is going to get heard. Better than the X factor sure, but i can't say i'm excited about it.
 
The thing is that PMO is correct in that choosing something completely off mainstream would have been ideal but then I'm damn sure many would not have downloaded it due to not knowing the band which confirms the view I had at the RATM release which is that despite all the bleating and elitism in proclaiming that you have different tastes, you are no better than those you are trying to usurp and your musical views are just as narrow minded as the rest.

A distorted guitar and a swear word doesn't automatically make you open minded and yes Sony are laughing their ass off as they own both artists one way or another.

I do admire the fact that people power is still strong and that people are out there willing to stand up and go against the mainstream but if ever there was an explanation for the word oxymoron then this is it.
 
Yeah... I think the main reason people chose this song is because it seems kind of like the quintessential protest song (Fuck you I won't do what you tell me.) So I think it's more about the lyrics and meaning of the song then trying to usurp an X-Factor winner with some unknown indie act.
 
Back
Top