Fuck you I won't do what you tell me
Not my protest but a protest by the British public.

Christmas last year, a Facebook campaign succeeded in making Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine the Christmas number 1 single in the UK in "protest" against Simon Cowell's X Factor winner always getting that honour.

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me, but I will do what YOU tell me. Besides, Cowell clearly made more money than he would have had this campaign not taken place. Silly X factor fans would have bought more copies of the Joe McElderry to try and counter the effort and I'm pretty sure Simon Cowell owns the rights to the Rage track as well.
(stewiegriffin, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 12:43, 18 replies)

I see your point
But in all honesty-it was still bloody funny. Though something less mainstream would have been good-bit of levellers for example. Of course, there'll now be several irritating copycats for the next few years, which might get a little grating.
( Greenbat, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 12:57, closed)

I heard...
This year it's to be "Surfin' Bird" Family guy version.
Shame. If it were the Cramps version I'd have been right behind it again!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 13:28, closed)

Oh had you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard.
(stewiegriffin, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 13:35, closed)

Haha!!
I guess I walked straight into that one- Well played Sir.
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 13:42, closed)

Oh please...
I'd buy it.
(ceeej, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 16:07, closed)

There's quite a bit of support for
4'33" by John Cage.

*hopes*
(Shinigami, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 20:55, closed)

See I'm torn...
...I absolutely LOVE the trolling effect of 4'33" as Xmas No.1, but I cannot bear to consider most of the works of John Cage (4'33" included) under the title of "Music".

Art maybe...but not music.
( Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Sat 13 Nov 2010, 1:57, closed)

I have a friend
that used to record classical music for a living and he was tasked with recording this. They hired a studio (I don't know for how long, at least a day though), a piano, a professional pianist, they spent hours setting up microphones in just the right places and setting levels.

The biggest problem that they had was when authoring the CD, you see, a CD track has a length and that length is displayed on the display on the front of the CD player. It just happens that the time displayed is actually a second or so LONGER than the actual time of the track. They wanted the track to display as being exactly 04:33 and they wanted the track to be exactly 04:33 long, it was very difficult to achieve this.

I also just looked up and enjoyed this www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E
(stewiegriffin, Sat 13 Nov 2010, 9:56, closed)

I for one hope this seasonal single has its day again.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDzLHu7wo5Q
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 16:57, closed)

Fuck you I won't tidy my bedroom!!
The anthem of a thousand surly teenagers. Still, it provided me with some small measure of amusement.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 12 Nov 2010, 13:29, closed)

Rage
Simon Cowell doesn't own the rights to any Rage Against the Machine song - no more than he does any Iron Maiden song, so I'm not sure where you go that from.

I think the campaign was more against bubble-gum, manufactured music than about how much money Simon Cowell makes or doesn't make.
(dchurch bah, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 13:34, closed)

*shrugs*
that's what I heard, you're probably right though...
(stewiegriffin, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 13:45, closed)

The RATM recording was on the Epic label, which is owned by Sony.
Cowell owns a certain amount of Sony stock.

Or something like that. Anyway, it all lined his pockets.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 14:00, closed)

He
sold his record company to Sony - which is where everyone gets the association from.
He wouldn't have profited from any sales of Rage after this event, as he had nothing to do with Sony from that point, apart from a contract of employment.
(dchurch bah, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 15:17, closed)

My mistake.
Still, hardly subverting the might of the music industry by giving Sony all our money, are we?

Right, I'm off to play my PS3 on my Bravia TV, while texting people on my Xperia and playing some music through a Walkman!
(sabre-tooth monkey, Fri 12 Nov 2010, 16:00, closed)

I liked it...
I just love the idea of the internet trolling real life for the lol's, and the rage of some people at having such an unchristian, sweary number one instead of the usual traditional (read nothing to do with christmas, mind numbingly dull and utterly inoffensive) christmas single.

I was wary of there being about a million different groups trying to get various songs to number one this year to try and repeat what happened last year, though I have to admit I feel the need to join the mission of getting 4'33" as number one, purely so I can hear it played on the radio in full.
Whether there will be enough other people bothered enough to actually do it is another thing.
(442, Sat 13 Nov 2010, 10:37, closed)

I
can't see it being repeated this year sadly.
I think the only way it might happen if it were the same song as last year, sending the same message, but there's about 15 million facebook pages at the moment all pushing a different song, so the water is well and truly muddied.
(dchurch bah, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 8:05, closed)

Shame they picked a shit track

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 15 Nov 2010, 9:35, closed)