There is a very bizarre — but very awesome — movement underfoot in the surprisingly still flourishing angst-filled and Rage Against the Machine-loving demographic.
Turns out that this dude named Simon Cowell (never heard of him — you?) does a “Top of Pops” Christmas special in which he names the most purchased songs of the year while being broadcast on a lot of radio stations and teevees. So, the idea here is that if a shitload of people purchase “Killing in the Name Of …”, Cowell would have to stand on stage and read the fact that it would be the number one song of the year.
This would, of course, be fucking awesome. Now, naturally, this didn’t start as something humorous (which I find) — it started as a “grassroots” Facebook group that has grown out of control (over 830,000 members), with Killing in the Name Of actually clocking in as the number one song … right now. Again: awesome. (Note: you can get links to download and help the “cause” at the FB group or here on the website.)
Of course, there’s something serious about it — Tom Morello appears in a BBC interview after the jump and discusses in his typically angry way why people are doing tapping “into the silent majority of the people in the UK who are tired of being spoon-fed one schmaltzy ballad after another and they want to take back their own charts. And we are honored that they chose our song to be the rebel anthem …”
So, see? This ultimately doesn’t benefit us that much. At least those of us who have the good sense to avoid FM radio (I mean, seriously, how are you being spoon-fed shitty ballads? Don’t you have XM? Don’t you have iPods? Christ, you bad-teethed cabbage-eaters. Get with it.)
Anyway, listen to the interview below; it’s pretty damn funny and pretty awesome. Rage, typically, take themselves too seriously, but that’s no reason to hate, certainly. Oh. Right. And because they play “Killing in the Name of.” Merry Christmas, people.
