Who bought the RATM single?

[Layzor]

I did not buy it, I personnally think RATM produce very bad music.

 

[Taerdin]

You do realise your argument makes no sense and that you contradicted yourself right? Sarcasm doesn't cross over well to the written word that I know but I thought you would at least pick up on the gaping hole in what you were saying.

For a second there I thought you actually understood, but I guess you still don't? This is approaching the verge of pathetic so I think I'll just marking you off as a lost cause on this one.

If I had to guess I'd say that the problem is instead of reading the words and taking them for what they mean, you're making assumptions based on what I'm trying to say. But that would mean no matter how clear I was you would never understand because you'll always have that assumption of what I'm trying to say in your mind as what you believe I am saying. But if you read your last post real good, and try really hard to understand how it could make sense then you MIGHT get it.... but my hopes are not high.

Anyways I've wasted far too much time in this thread and on this forum in general, so I'm going to go do something actually productive for awhile.

 

[TheZapper]

I damn well know i did. to hell with the x factor, this world needs to be told that pop and RnB are terrible role models & are not real music.
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FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME

So you wont do what they tell you, but you will blindly obey a facebook group?

OT: No, I didn't buy it, nor did I buy the x factor single because I don't like either of the songs.

 

[USSR]

Am I the only one here that has no idea what you all are talking about?

Yes =p

Rage Against The Machine's single.

 

[Dogstile]

You know what? I brought it because this has made Christmas no.1 interesting again, and I'm actually interested in seeing who wins this year. I've never cared before, i say this is a good thing.

 

[USSR]

Am I the only one here that has no idea what you all are talking about?

Yes =p

Rage Against The Machine's new single.

New single? The song was released in 1992....

My bad, I just assumed it was new. I don't like them at all =/

 

[Pilot Bush]

they're back together?

 

[MoganFreeman]

Freddie Mercury was far more revolutionary than Zac de la Rocha. And he could sing, to boot.

 

[KittywifaMohawk]

Am I the only one here that has no idea what you all are talking about?

Yes =p

Rage Against The Machine's new single.

New single? The song was released in 1992....

Ooooooh. Thank you for clearing that up for me.
And as from my other post, you all could guess that I haven't boughten it.
And I don't plan to.

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

I didn't because RATM are terrible.

 

[literallyanythingelse]

If the X factor guy wins, Cowell and Sony get paid; if RATM win then only Sony get paid - Syco is owned by Sony, not the other way round.

But who really cares? I mean really, what difference does it make to anyone's life if only Sony or if Sony and Cowell get money? It's just immature rebellion, ending up as conformity, with no actual goal behind it other than "I don't like someone who is rich".

Well I don't really have a problem with rich people, it's just that I think Simon Cowell is a total **** who regularly gets his karaoke competitions into the national news and embedded in foolish people's thoughts and needs to be told quite conclusively to fuck off.
For example, one of my friends refused to come out on the last night of term because of the X-Factor final. It's everywhere!

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

I didn't because I refuse to sully my music collection with RATM. They're more corporate and equally as shit as anything XFactor has spewed out. You didn't stick it to Simon Cowell, you just gave him more publicity, which means he will now get even more money, and XFactor can come back next year with even worse sob stories.

Everyone who supported this campaign just made XFactor into the good guys, fighting against the hoard of bullies and naysayers. Nice. Fucking. Work.

 

[aruseusx]

I would have prefered a different song competing with the X-Factor like "Cyberwaste" by Fear Factroy.

 

[-Orgasmatron-]

And I agree with all the people who have pointed out that the motto of "Fuck you I wont do what you tell me" really makes no sense when everyone is going out to get this single precisely because somebody told them to.

You know whats funny about sentences, they can be interpreted in many ways. Now I can see that if you're a person who wants to antagonize this group then you can easily say, "haha, you dont want to do what others tell you and yet you're doing this thing that someone told you to do! You're a giant hypocrite because this is the only way this makes sense to me and thus you are stupid."

But if you really can't see how this is a big Fuck You to xfactor, then either you're trying not to see it, or somethign has gone horribly wrong in your mind. Xfactor has had the number 1 single for the last four years running, its practically a guarantee at this point. Therefore the fuck you I wont do what you tell me in this case is obviously NOT MAKING THE XFACTOR SINGLE NO 1. When someone tells me, "hey could you cut off your arm for me please?" and a friend is like "hey man, dont do that!" and I tell the guy "fuck you I wont do what YOU tell ME", I'm allowed to not cut off my arm and still NOT be a hypocrite.

The fact is this statement is specific to one entity (YOU) and not all entities (as in, fuck you I don't do what anyone tells me, or fuck everyone I won't do what anyone tells me). So to not do what one person says, while doing what someone else says is not a contradiction at all, but nice try though.

QED: Learn to understand instead of antagonize for the sake of it. Seriously what the hell is wrong with the escapist forums and seeing any other point of view other than "heh heh, people are so stupid except me"

Of course I can see how this is aimed at the X-Factor. The point I was trying to get across here is that the motto really doesn't make sense. For one thing, nobody is telling you to go and buy the X-Factor winner's single.

Secondly, like I said, this is massively hypocritical. The whole point of the song is to state that you shouldn't do something just because other people tell you to, and this is ironically precisely what people are now doing. For enough people to buy RATM's single to make it a possible contender for Christmas number 1, that means that there are a LOT of people buying it. And I'm willing to bet that not all of them even like RATM that much, they are just buying it because a Facebook group said it would be really cool to get one over on the X-Factor.

Now don't get me wrong, I despise the X-Factor and all its ilk, its a massive waste of time and all it ever does is highlight the amount of weirdo's this country has so people can laugh at them, before whittling it down to a generic pop singer.

But you know what people could also do, instead of listening to the 'cool kids' and buying RATM? They could do exactly what RATM is singing about, stop following orders blindly and engage their thinking caps. If you don't like X-Factor, myself included in this number, don't watch it, don't buy the winner's single and don't get involved at all. All anyone is doing in this campaign is putting more money into Sony's pockets whilst getting a song that the majority of the country would not like to be belted out over the radio at Christmas of all times.

Whilst it would be amusing to have the radio belt out RATM to me, for many it would be incredibly annoying, more so than some generic pop song, because a great deal more people don't like RATM's style of music, and in turn that could put a downer on their Christmas.

Chill out... it's just for the lulz.

 

[SnipErlite]

So, we're all buying a single en masse to get it to number one because someone told us to, because we don't want to buy a single en masse to get it to number one because someone told us to?

RatM or X Factor, you're the 'sheep' you hate so much either way.

Of course this is true, but that's not why it's being done - Cowell and the general X factorage think the number 1 should be theirs every year and people wanted to piss them off.

Besides, it'll be funny to hear RATM with all the expletives blanked out when they gotta play the number 1.

It's just for jokes

=]

EDIT: Yeah I bought it

 

[Nivag the Owl]

You know the rights to 'Killing In The Name Of' are the same as the X-Factor one, right? It's a total hoax.