Rage against The X Factor?
For all of you who are members of Facebook (99.9% of the Earth’s population, right?) you’ve probably already seen the group that’s been doing the rounds: ‘RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE FOR CHRISTMAS NUMBER 1’. With a staggering 478,097 members and counting, the group is on a mission to teach Simon Cowell a little lesson in people power of a different nature.
The X Factor started in 2004 and, with the exception of the god awful Steve Brookstein (Series one winner, looked like a Dad, really boring head…), every Christmas number one since has been the winner from the show. The charts have become a little safe haven for the show’s contestants and a never-ending money pit for the Cowell. And regardless if you like The X Factor or not (I do), the predictableness of the Christmas number one could be seen as becoming very, very boring (it is).
Remember when Mr Blobby got to number one back in the glory days of 1993? And when the do-gooding Band Aid got to number one in ’89 with Do They Know It’s Christmas? At least that was an actual bona fide Christmas song! Now it seems all we will be ‘treated’ to is either some soppy ballad written by a member of Westlife (joy) or a cover of an already loved song torn apart by the winner’s screeches (I’m thinking Alexandra Burke’s Hallelujah here, which although was an okay cover, it really didn’t hold a patch to the version by Jeff Buckley).
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OK, so the single the group is urging everyone to go and buy is the catchy and non-radio friendly Killing in the Name with the accompanying tag line of ‘F@ck you I wont buy what you sell me’. Nice. William Hill are currently placing this second to the winner of The X Factor, with odds on at 10/3 so it does seem like there is a real chance here folks!
If you wish to partake in this festive challenge, put a little bit of fun back into the Christmas charts, and ‘Take the Power Back’ (sorry, literally couldn’t help myself) then click this link on or after the 13th December, download a copy, and sit back and hope for a little sweary Christmas miracle.
Merry Christmas!
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