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As a reaction to the X factor and all that, there's now a campaign to get Rage Against the Machine's "Killing In The Name Of" to be the Christmas number 1, rather than the latest X factor spam.

This amuses me. Enough to buy at least one copy, anyway. For anyone interested...

Here's some news about it. For reference, some/all of the profits from the sales will be going to charity.

For anyone interested in joining in, here's the links to do so on:
Amazon
Play.com
iTunes

I rather like the idea of it all, plus RATM are a good enough band for me to be willing to help them in their resurgence.

Date: 2009-12-19 12:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
Which, my assertion that they're a mass-marketed product taking on a carefully crafted pose intended to appeal to (and thus get money from) teenagers who aren't smart enough to notice the massive disconnect between their rhetoric and their actions?

(And OF COURSE they're a fucking boy-band. They've adopted a carefully crafted persona intended to make dumb people wish they were JUST LIKE the band. With the concomitant implication that they can take the first step along the road by giving money to the band's record company. There are two kinds of boy-bands: The ones you're supposed to want to be, and the ones you're supposed to want to sleep with. Both ways, it's fake, and it's pretty much the defining characteristic of pop music.)

If you want a band that take their politics seriously, look at U2. If you want a band that takes RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE'S politics seriously, go look up Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Notice what they do that Rage didn't? Oh, that's right, they practiced what they preached, they didn't just sell the preaching.

To call RatM "sellouts" implies that there was anything there *except* a carefully crafted product to be sold, which there wasn't, so I don't like the word sellout. I prefer "televangelist" - they're a band who people pay lots of money to hear "do as I say, not as I do" from.

Also, their music sucks. But that's a more subjective thing.

Date: 2009-12-19 12:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
I mean, fuck, at least Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson *admit* that their personas are a joke and invite you in on it.

Date: 2009-12-19 01:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
Sorry, I thought it was clear: they crafted their hypocritical messages and fake personas, for the purpose of selling them.

And then Sony paid them millions of dollars over the decades to sell their fakeness, because that particular kind of fake was worth quite a lot of money to Sony.

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