Simon Cowell and Cheryl Cole are shaking in their highly shined and highly expensive snow-proof shoes this morning as it looks as though Rage Against The Machine could snatch the number one spot from X factor winner Joe McElderry.

So scared of losing out to some decent music in fact, that they have decided to brand the whole RATM Vs. Joe campaign ‘bullying’…

Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but this campaign is nothing against Joe himself (as it was set up before the winner was even announced) but against the X Factor winners automatically getting to number one with whatever mediocre single they chose to release off the back of the show.

If Joe McElderry and co think this is bad, then they’ve clearly got a lot to learn about the music business…. No one deserves instant recognition… it’s all about hard work. And singing one or two songs a week over the course of 12 weeks does NOT count as hard work!

So, as Simon rants from his holiday home out in Barbados; “All these musical snobs have ganged up against Joe. If you take me out of the equation, you have a teenager with his first single being attacked by a huge hate mob on Facebook. It almost feels like a little kid being bullied.”

And Cheryl followed suit (obviously, as Girls Aloud were another tv show victor) adding; “I cannot bear to see him [Joe] lose to a mean campaign. If that song, or should I say campaign, by an American group is our Christmas Number One I’ll be gutted for him and our charts.”

Yesterdays late figures showed the RATM was still ahead of Joe, but the gap is closing… so what are we going to do kids? Let the people who think a campaign for some rock music is bullying win?

I bet if it was a Facebook campaign to get the original Miley Cruyus track to number one, it would be a totally different story. After all, pop fans could never be accused of bullying right? Not like us dirty, beer swilling rockers?

Ruth – Team Rage.
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