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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Much love Ruth, all most of us want to see is a more decent and enriching music industry.
Besides which, a little competition for a young musical artist is no trouble at all compared to the heartbreak in store for the lad when Cowell drops him like a dirty dishcloth in six months time..
wooooooooh team RAGE!!!
I love the fact you’ve noticed what i’m telling everyone, i.e. its not a personal attack on joe as the campaign was started before the winner was announced. i also love that simon and cheryl are commenting on something they know nothing about as cheryl seems to think its Rage against the machine that have launched this campaign not some average bloke on facebook called tom and his wife.
i think due to it being a rock song it is going to have trouble beating Joe in the final push as most people i know who i’ve played it too call it “head ache music”.
I love the song and have done since it came out but have got behind the campaign for a different reason, if it was up to me i would prefer a christmas song for number one (i would prefer wizards i wish it could be christmas everyday as that is a great song and has never been christmas number one but thourghly deserve it), but got behind the song which had the most momentum and the best chance of toppling the xfactor guarenteed christmas number one spot as simon cowell has said that number one spot is joes and he shouldn’t be cheated out of it…i can’t believe that statement to be honest next he’ll be calling it the x factor number 1 spot not the christmas number 1!
Matt
Dudley
Thanks
Totally agree! I’m going to be listening to the top 40 for the first time in God knows how long this Sunday!
(BTW: Matt Dudley as in from Darton High?)
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no sorry,
matt williams
And you advocate that instead of this music we should have hate filled warmongering touts like RATM at our number one?
Chris, Simon isn’t getting anything from the RATM side, he don’t own them, RATM are on a totaly different label (Epic) to Simon (SyCo or something like that)
i assume that was in reply to me, i never said simon was getting a penny from the rage sales, i said sony are, who own both and are his bosses. what i did say is as a result of the publicity surrounding this his own single; the x-factor winner, will make a lot more sales be it No 1 or 2!!
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!
Its funny really, both songs are owned by sony, so they have just had a bumper christmas.
Simon Cowell doesnt care, this is great for him– extra publicity- extra interest in the story-
and best of all, if it comes 1st or 2nd it will still sell more units because of this news story than
he could have imagined 3 weeks ago. Bet hes loving life in the barbados having played the poor
fans yet again after they are tricked into buying this garbage song.
Not all bad though, i shall be buying neither, i already own all the RATM albums and atleast it will
be played once or twice every night when i go out drinking for the next month or so.
Just remember kids- nobody can win, and if you are buying the record to upset simon cowell, you
are only making him and his bosses/partners very very happy this christmas, Merry Xmas
(i agree with wizard- next year wizard for number 1)