Post by Demon John on Dec 4, 2009 16:12:14 GMT
After last years Buckley version of Hallelujah was pitted against the X-Factor single in the UK, this year the campaign is being pushed with Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine.
As last year, my thought is this, what a bunch of bullshit. If people want to fight the power of X-Factor, the best way is to totally ignore it, to make a competition of it each year only feeds the monster they want to slay.
Why would/should a real lover of music give this a seconds thought? I don't even remember the last top 40 album I bought, but that's probably because I never know what is in the top 40, it matters that much.
www.nme.com/news/rage-against-the-machine/48727
On a side note, I see this week that Susan Boyle has sold the most records ever in the first week for a woman in the U.S.with over 700,000 copies sold, coming second overall to Snoop Doggy Doggs Doggystyle album. Probably even more incredible, considering the size of the U.K. in comparison, she sold half as many again here, getting an amazing 400,000 sales.
As last year, my thought is this, what a bunch of bullshit. If people want to fight the power of X-Factor, the best way is to totally ignore it, to make a competition of it each year only feeds the monster they want to slay.
Why would/should a real lover of music give this a seconds thought? I don't even remember the last top 40 album I bought, but that's probably because I never know what is in the top 40, it matters that much.
www.nme.com/news/rage-against-the-machine/48727
On a side note, I see this week that Susan Boyle has sold the most records ever in the first week for a woman in the U.S.with over 700,000 copies sold, coming second overall to Snoop Doggy Doggs Doggystyle album. Probably even more incredible, considering the size of the U.K. in comparison, she sold half as many again here, getting an amazing 400,000 sales.
