The Christmas No. 1 single has always been a pretty big deal in the UK. It gets played all the time on radio and on the tele. For the past four years, the Christmas No. 1 has been the winning song from the TV kareoke contest The X Factor. The show is timed so that the winning single is always released in the Christmas chart week, so that the winner will get at least one hit single before they fade completely.
This year, a Facebook group has sprung up declaring its wish that this year's Christmas single be Killing in the Name of by Rage Against the Machine. It hit just over 700,000 members today, up from 50,000 when I joined about five days ago.
Some people are saying that it's a bit stupid to be using a left-wing anti-establishment song as a protest by mass purchase. Others are saying that it's hypocritical to buy it, because RATM are on Sony, a label which X Factor head honcho Simon Cowell is heavily involved with.
I am on the other side. I don't give a flying **** about the money - it's about having a half decent song play all the time on Christmas Day. It's about the right wing ****ers wincing into their Christmas tea and moaning because that cute young lad from the X Factor didn't have his nice little cover song win this year. It's also about helping homeless charity Shelter (the RATM group on FB have raised over £16,000 (about US$30,000) for them so far). (Go donate!)
I also just read that this year's X Factor single will be a cover of Miley Cyrus's 'The Climb'. WHAT. THE. ****. We cannot allow this to happen.
What do you think? For me, it is fun, good for Shelter, and will hopefully save my family and I from a bad kareoke cover of a Miley Cyrus song.
Please can this happen. Just please. Daily Mail grannies discussing the Queen's Speech and then choking on their mince pies when Killing in the Name Of comes on after. Oh please. PLEASE.
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