Score, Marxists! Rage Against the Machine, the band for people who hate both capitalism and their parents, has prevented X Factor winner Joe McElderry from taking the top spot on the British singles chart. To contextualize for Americans: in England, Simon Cowell launched The X Factor after retiring Pop Idol. The show’s winner has taken the Christmas #1 with the release of their debut single for the past four years. Someone got sick of it and created a Facebook group asking people to instead pay for a download of RATM’s 1992 single “Killing in the Name Of.” A half-million people did just that.
By the way, McElderry’s single is a cover of Miley Cyrus’s “The Climb.” He put his own unique twist on it by taking one of the best songs of the year and making it not good. The video is also unembeddable (strike two) so double-click on the window and grab a pillow:
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