All About the Love
I just downloaded Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine. I hope you will too. It's not my normal sort of listening but anything to help pause the Simon Cowell juggernaut. Apparently he said the campaign to knock his latest accessory, Joe McElderry, off the top of the Christmas charts was 'cynical'. 'Yeah, right,' said Ironic Daughter, 'like X-Factor's all about the love.'
# posted by Bryan Appleyard : 3:42 PM
9 Comments:
At December 18, 2009 6:09 PM,
Sean said…
Things must be getting tedious in snow bound Norwich.
Have you heard of Spotify btw?
At December 18, 2009 6:27 PM,
kynefski said…
As an American, it's not uncommon for me to read Bryan's posts and be completely unfamiliar with issues and personalities.
Here, I don't even understand the freaking concept!
At December 18, 2009 6:58 PM,
simbn said…
I doubt that the Simon Cowell cruise liner can even be paused; some form of mild infection amongst its passengers may be the best hope, perhaps through Joe being persuaded to sing with Camera Obscura - they'd sound good together (their Swans is among the millions of songs that would have made a better protest single, in my Joe-humble opinion).
At December 18, 2009 8:59 PM,
traherne said…
Would love to help, Bryan, but I'm too busy watching P J Harvey on youtube. It's been about a week so far. Or maybe longer.
I now know the meaning of obsession ....
At December 19, 2009 10:56 AM,
Willard said…
Ahem... [Clears throat...]
Allow me to be the first to agree with you and to join you in the Christmas spirit by screaming at the top of my lungs: 'Fuck you. I won't do what you tell me!'
At December 19, 2009 2:49 PM,
ghostofelberry said…
It seems to me the only realistic alternative to Joe McElderry is Joe McElberry, i shall don my Zack de la Roche wig and take to busking my own RATM favourite, "Bullet in the Head" forthwith.
At December 20, 2009 10:42 PM,
Ironic Daughter said…
None of it matters now - we won! Ironic-Almost-Son-in-Law points out it is a somewhat hollow victory with RATM being owned by Sony...
At December 21, 2009 9:33 AM,
ian russell said…
Ha, ha. Totally missed this, only heard about it on Today this morning. Why wasn't there a choice representing good, honest music? Bring back Cliff! (I can't believe what I'm saying).
At December 21, 2009 10:42 AM,
Anonymous said…
I have problems with my irony detector sometimes, can someone help me out.
The song is about not doing whatever someone tells you to do. The fella writing this blog wants us to download it. He's now happy that that lots ofpeople have done what he tells us to do.
Fine. Anyway well done to Sony BMG, nice little extra payday.
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