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rage against the x-factor - Outcome: RATM is the Christmas Number One!
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You cant really do this every year though. Continual fixing will make the charts a joke, and nobody will care (a la MTV award and Rick Astley). Doing it once to prove a point against the X-Factor commercial exploitation train is an amusing and (in my opinion) worthwhile cause. Doing it every year is just destroying the validity of the charts, at which stage, there will be no point.
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Wow, that was slightly vitriolic. I'm not sure how my previous comment was construed as being self rightous. I was mearly pointing out the reasoning behind the campaign. There is no need to get uppity about it. We're on the same side with fundamentally wanting the same result.
Aside from that - how is buying the X-Factor song democratic? It's no more or less democratic than buying RATM or any other song available at the moment. That statement makes no sense.
Validity of the charts?! There's a point to them now!? Unless you're under 10 I don't think the charts really matter!
I've got nothing against Joe. He could be a fantastic singer for all I know, I've never watched it. He doesn't write his own music, but neither did Sinatra or Elvis. That's not what I have a problem with.
Also LOL this has to be the worst Featured Article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christmas_number_one_singles_(UK) Although I was somewhat surprised to learn that Another Brick in the Wall was a Christmas #1.
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The sheer ignorance posted in this thread is what drives me to dispair for the future of music. The fact that the music business has become so ultra capitalist should concern everyone. I'd bet people in the 90s were sick with the state of the business, little did they know it was going to get far worse! We really are teetering on the edge of seeing decent original music disappear from the mainstream for the foreseeable future, as there's no way labels will fund original artists when this kind of machine is in place.
I'm my opinion, it is every free-thinking individuals duty, nay, honour to buy the Rage single, for no other reason than to stand up and be counted, to say to those blind fools led by Cowell the puppet-master, that we will not let good music go quitely into the night! And I couldn't think of a better track to signify this protest!
I'm my opinion, it is every free-thinking individuals duty, nay, honour to buy the Rage single, for no other reason than to stand up and be counted, to say to those blind fools led by Cowell the puppet-master, that we will not let good music go quitely into the night! And I couldn't think of a better track to signify this protest!
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We won't know until the chart is announced on Sunday.
At the moment, RATM is #1 on Play.com, and HMV but #2 on iTunes.
Free thinking individuals that a few weeks ago wouldn't have cared? The same free thinking individuals that are buying the song cause some fella on Facebook is telling them too?
Yes, definetly not sheep
.Out of interest, has Killing in the Name been released as a phyiscal single or is it just digital?
I'm definitely gonna buy this.
I bought Jeff Buckley's song last year too in a hope to knock off Alexandra.
Didn't work but it wasn't as big as this rage against the machine battle seems to have become!
Rage are gonna make some serious money this year thanks to Cowell!
I bought Jeff Buckley's song last year too in a hope to knock off Alexandra.
Didn't work but it wasn't as big as this rage against the machine battle seems to have become!
Rage are gonna make some serious money this year thanks to Cowell!
If someone listens to the argument and then decides to participate that makes them free-thinking. A sheep is someone that follows the crowd without thinking about it.
Yes, no one can ever take part in an organised effort for something without being a sheep. Everyone has to spontaneously come up with the same idea at the same time.
Obviously people did care about this but there was not an organised effort to do something about it before a week ago was there? I think you'll find plently of people hated the X-Factor before a week ago.
Free thinking individuals that a few weeks ago wouldn't have cared? The same free thinking individuals that are buying the song cause some fella on Facebook is telling them too?
Yes, definetly not sheep
Out of interest, has Killing in the Name been released as a phyiscal single or is it just digital?
They're not buying it because someone is telling them though, they're buying it because they believe in the cause.
There's a vast difference between the above and buying a single because you've been made to feel like you've helped with the birth of a new star through clever marketing around the christmas period. People don't buy Joe's album because he's a good artist, they buy it because they're gay.
It's funny that someone has already edited RATM into NUmber 1.
Also, things basically started going downhill in 1993, didn't they? And with the exception of Mad World, each entry has been some rubbish manufactured group since 1996.
How many people believed in this cause until someone told them too
. As for your last sentence, I could say that people are only buying the Rage single because that want to "fite teh powa". Rebellion rules.So by your definitions the people buying the X-Factor single are not sheep?? Surely Cowell hasn't got a hold of the masses then.
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