i've been loving this recent campaign to oust the x-factor from the christmas no 1 slot through virally campaigning about getting rage against the machine's "killing in the name of".
i like it for 3 reasons:
1. it reminds me of a campaign i tried to lead at our college to obtain a minimum library fine and refuse to pay it upon graduating. they withhold your degree from all those that have outstanding monies owed to the college. i was angry with the system at the time. i needed an outlet. this was my campaign.
they overlooked my fine.
2. music has become more about tv than music. whilst this particular campaign, ironically, spawned from a reaction to tv and maybe, in my mind a little misguided, it still retains a feeling of being grassroots.
i remember going to friends houses just to listen to bands like to stone roses, house of love, the wonder stuff or happy mondays. one of my good friends tells how when the day sgt pepper came out he was supposed to be revising for an exam and in the end he was so blown away by the music he stopped, with his friends, just to listen to it all weekend.
3. it's fun.
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