Congratulations to RATM and all the fans that supported the campaign to get X-Factor and the other over-paided song writers and music industry "professionals" off the No.1 spot.
No problem. I'm waiting to hear when the free concert will be and how much money they raised for Shelter in the meantime while you're being bitter :smile.gif:
I'm not bitter, I'm just upset that the vast amount of young people are just massive self-righteous tools who actually think they've done something amazing.
This is exactly how I feel. It's hilarious, sure, but it proves nothing. A bunch of angsty teens on a bandwagon, yippe, social rebellion my ass.
Just because lots of people banded together (myself included) and spent 29p on a song to make this christmas slightly more bizarre doesn't mean we're all blindly wandering around doing everything the nearest radio tells us.
How is everyone one running out buying the x factor because Simon "told" you any different from everyone running out and buying RATM because someone on facebook told you to?
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Community spirit isn't the same as being a sheep. I mainly did it so we didn't get another easy listening ITV song for christmas, and the only way of achieving this is to group together, and we succeeded.
Why do you even care what's number 1? You've achieved nothing, the x factor single will probably reach number 1 next week anyway. The charts will always be dominated by middle of the road music, that's why they're the pop charts, you've not stuck it to the man, you've not made a statement, you've just made one popular song sell slightly better than another popular song.
The social rebellion thing was meant to be sarcasm. Should have tagged it as it wasn't very obvious. But to be honest, I'm more happy that THIS is number one than that stale X-Factor singles that have been topping Christmas charts for the past few years. It's something different and it actually does make a point, or reinforce a previously made one.
If you band people together for a common cause, you can topple the **** shovelling that major companies (or other parties) do to benefit themselves.
However, you could argue that it hasn't actually made a difference to the parties involved (and in actual fact benefited Sony BMG as they have a subsidiary which RATM is licensed under).
Of course, music is just music, not a major topical battle ground like politics, religion, etc. But at least this has made some difference for the better in lives of people, mostly those on the receiving end of the some £70,000 profit donated to a charity for the homeless.
tl;dr - Nothings changed, no radical reform occurred, some homeless people benefit from charity (profits). Song BMG wins all around with No. 1 and 2 singles and we all go back to our lives.
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Retired StaffThis is exactly how I feel. It's hilarious, sure, but it proves nothing. A bunch of angsty teens on a bandwagon, yippe, social rebellion my ass.
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Curse PremiumIf you band people together for a common cause, you can topple the **** shovelling that major companies (or other parties) do to benefit themselves.
However, you could argue that it hasn't actually made a difference to the parties involved (and in actual fact benefited Sony BMG as they have a subsidiary which RATM is licensed under).
Of course, music is just music, not a major topical battle ground like politics, religion, etc. But at least this has made some difference for the better in lives of people, mostly those on the receiving end of the some £70,000 profit donated to a charity for the homeless.
tl;dr - Nothings changed, no radical reform occurred, some homeless people benefit from charity (profits). Song BMG wins all around with No. 1 and 2 singles and we all go back to our lives.