Raging Aginst the X Factor Machine
 

There is currently a conspiracy afoot in the UK to get Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name (yeah, that one, "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me") to number one at Christmas instead of the X Factor winner Jo McElderry.

I shrugged it off to start with, after all Rage are managed by Sony, so the money all goes into the same coffers anyway. But the retchingly self-important statements from the X Factor judges have made me think otherwise. I have no money to download the single anyway, but I would roll on the floor clutching my portly sides at such a fingers up gesture to the status quo if it comes off.

The Christmas number one is a really big deal here. They are usually remembered for years to come. And all sorts have made it, from saccharine sweet ballads, to normal pop songs to novelty records. But for the last few years the X Factor macine has guaranteed the winner the Christmas number one through the sheer publicity of the show. It's a ten week advert.

I like the X Factor. I like watching it on Sky+ so I can forward through the ads and the boring bits. But for them to have a stranglehold on the charts and call someone challenging it "cynical", "stupid", "very Scrooge"... well. How stoopid are we supposed to be?

Regardless of whether I buy the song or not, I won't do what you tell me :p

That would be awesome if it happened.

I just ordered a Godsmack CD and Drowning Pool CD. I like some of RageAtM.

Rage concert during the RNC was one of the best nights of my life. Jumped down to the ground floor (with just about half of the audience) and it was a great time. After the show De La Rocha calmed down the ground and urged us not to start a riot, which was successful, then we went outside to see thousands of riot police and SWAT team members surrounding the building.

Not that it would effect me at all but I think it would be funny if that happened.

RNC?

Republican National Convention?

?????

Not so much Rage Against The Machine as Mild Irritation At The Watermill.

Hell, that sounds like a Northumbrian folk quartet. Or a Northumbrian pipes jig.

That could work.

Confound you, I shan't heed your directives!
Confound you, I shan't heed your directives!
Confound you, I shan't heed your directives!
Confound you, I shan't heed your directives!

I love it when ZenGum gets all nerdy and school-teachery on us.

Siiiiiiigh.

Yes.

Pretend to Rage Against the Machine But Actually Work Within It

Gets nerdy? :eyebrow:

Sit up straight, and stop fidgeting. Now write an essay of approximately 500 words discussing when I have been other than nerdy, why you think it happened, and what can be done to prevent it recurring. Follow the standard formatting and referencing conventions. It is due by 3pm Monday.

Was that good for you?

WIN!!


Bwahaha :thumb: :D

Well, I'm scratching my head. Never was a fan.:neutral:

hehee, the original lyric is:

FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!
MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A nice Christmas noel, wouldn't you say?