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RATM v XFactor
I’ve been out of the country for a few days. I had to get away from the X Factor final hype nonsense.
But I was pumped to learn of the campaign to get ‘Killing In The Name’ to Christmas number 1 ahead of the X-Factor winner’s song.
The ideal band to topple capitalist music execs and their manufactured pop ballad bull crap.
Congratulations to John who started the facebook campaign for the buzz he has managed to build around it. I wish I would have thought of it.
I already owned all of Rage’s stuff, but I have just downloaded the single again, a couple of times. I urge everyone to do the same.
Nothing against Joe McElderry, I heard him on the radio today and he comes across as a nice enough lad. Good singer too… Congratulations on becoming British Karaoke champion.
I’m sure your granny will love all your stuff.
I’m sure a lot of the British public will think the song is really good too…
In the same way that most twelve year-old’s think they know about life…
If you’re into that kind of mass produced garbage, maybe you need to wake up to the fact that x factor hits are never remembered past the holiday period. And rarely are the “artists” that produce them.
The music of artists like ‘Rage Against the Machine’, whose intentions and legacy go way beyond just fame and fortune, is written in history.
If you read this blog at all, you will know how much i hate the Xfactor. For the BS so called “music” the program puts out; for how it successfully manipulates the nation into tuning in, dialling in, paying out; and for how people are deliberately humiliated on the early stages, in the name of entertainment.
As innocent as the contestants might be in all of that, do you think that the corporation responsible for all that deserves to top the charts at Christmas?
We are a long way yet from toppling Simon Cowell and the X Factor. The franchise does after all have the head start of a several months long prime time TV marketing campaign…
Please download Killing in the name from Amazon, or from Itunes …. even if it is just to F*UK Simon Cowell off. 
Oh – and if you haven’t already seen it, then you really want to watch Rage on The 5 Live breakfast… http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/
The revolution will not be silenced or censored… not even by the BBC!
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evenflowdave December 20 2009 12:44 pm
Hey Lee,
I have no idea where the Cowell profiting from RATM rumour comes from. If I was a cynical person I would say it was started by Cowell's people to discourage the xfactor haters from buying it.
Actually, the only truth in it is that both Rage's Label and Simon Cowell's 'Syco' (To which all the xfactor winners are signed) operate under the Sony BMG umbrella. But they have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
As I understand it, Syco has a 5 year deal to be part of the Sony group. This way it benefits from Sony's distribution power, and Sony are guaranteed a large income from distributing the xfactor shit every year. It's a really quick turnover of cash and a rinse and repeat process. Plenty of suckers for the Cowell money machine to chew up and spit back out every year.
Aside from that Cowell might get some kind of A&R Consultancy fee from Sony BMG, but definitely not royalties from artists on other labels that he has nothing to do with.
That is my understanding anyway. If anyone knows any better I'll be interested to hear...
Thanks for the comment, do come back and feel free to pitch in anytime :)
Lee McAndrewDecember 20, 2009 10:38 pm
YEAH! They did it! Power to the people!
I hope you're right re: the royalties.
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Lee McAndrewDecember 19, 2009 7:51 pm
Right on! I got to agree that it's nothing against Joe, I just object to having our Christmas No 1 predetermined each year by the outcome of (as you so eloquently put it) a televised karaoke competition.
Unfortunately Simon Cowell gets royalties from Killing In The Name Of as well (don't ask me how, but it's been widely reported), so he'll still be doing nicely out of it. Nonetheless, it will feel nice to be able to possibly affect some change from the status quo.