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Paul McCartney has been around a while and been in the music business longer than most. So I guess his opinion means something. It certainly means more than than those of Simon Cowell and Cheryl Cole.
Unless you’ve been living in a box in the middle of nowhere for the last couple of weeks you’ll know that the most exciting chart battle for years is currently happening in the U.K. It’s between Joe McElderry, winner of The X Factor 2009, and Rage Against The Machine, geniuses.
To catch up on the story, read these posts here, here, here, and here, and then come back…
Paul McCartney appeared on the final night of The X Factor, singing a couple of hits alongside the final 12 contestants. And yet even he is backing the campaign to get Rage Against The Machine to Christmas number one with Killing In The Name.
He told Sky News:
“I like the idea of this Rage Against The Machine thing that’s happening. I think that’s kind of interesting.”
He was then asked if he’d like to see RATM top the charts for Christmas, and he responded:
“Yeah I think so, because it’s out of leftfield you know. Everyone expects Joe to do it, and he certainly will sell a lot of records. And if he gets to Number one, good luck to him. But it would be kind of funny if a band like Rage Against The Machine got it, because it would prove a point.”
It would indeed prove a point. It would prove that Simon Cowell does not own the charts and that despite effectively having a three-month slot on ITV in which to plug his Christmas record the British public aren’t so easily swayed.
Paul McCartney has gone up in my estimation for saying what he said. However, it does mean he obviously appeared on The X Factor purely for the publicity rather than for the love of the show. So he’s gone straight back down in my estimation again. Oh well.
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261 days ago
In Nazi Germany they censored the books of Jews, burning them in a huge bonfire at Nuremberg, solely because they did not like Jewish ideas.
That is exactly what has happened here in this Facebook campaign. Stopping Joe McElderry reaching a well deserved No. 1. Manipulating the public not to buy it is ‘censoring’ of the very worst kind. Because it stops Joe McElderry of earning his rightful living.
To say that you do not like a particular record or genre in music is everyone’s right and privilege; but to ‘vote’ against something or to try and prevent someone earning a rightful living, by campaigning against them; is the filthiest thing anyone can do. Everybody knows that if it wasn’t for the ‘vested interests’ campaign trying to stop Joe McElderry and Simon Cowell; Joe’s record would have been the No. 1 easily. It certainly is the No.1 for me. One further point: For Paul McCartney to support the RATM campaign stopping another music artist from earning his living is just typical of all I have ever thought about Paul McCartney. He, like all the rest of the “Beatles” have been exploiting and ripping off the record buying public for years. “Write a song in a few minutes, hours, days or months” live off the proceeds for the rest of your life.
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