This may be my favorite story ever.
Posted by David on Monday, December 21, 2009 at 11:41 PM.
The short version is this:
It's apparently a big deal to be the #1 song in the UK in the week before Christmas.
For the past four years, the winning singer from X-Factor, an American Idol style show in the UK, also presided over by Simon Cowell, has also been the person to get the #1 spot before Christmas.
This year, fed up with the pre-chewed music coming out of the commercial machine, a couple of Brits started a facebook campaign to elect, by purchases, a different song.
Who did they pick as the band and the song? Why, Rage Against The Machine, of course, singing Killing In The Name.
And the result? This story's happy ending:
Savannah, on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 6:24 AM:
THANK THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER (no offense to Simon Cowell).
I HATE, HATE, HATE those competition shows that are destroying everything in their path like freaking Godzilla (no offense to anyone involved in them).
They are systematically destroying art and creativity by turning everything into a contest to be won according to largely arbitrary standards and blind luck. GRRRRR.
Rage Against the Machine indeed.
GeoGeek, on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 3:02 PM:
I never thought I'd live to see the day...they day when I found a good use of facebook.