Rage Against the Machine vs. X Factor’s Simon Cowell

Rage Against the Machine vs. X Factor's Simon Cowell

Last night in Los Angeles, California, one phone call changed the course of the musical verse television revolution. The call was answered by Dan Catullo of DC3 Global telling him to get a crew together to roll film for a one night reunion of Rage Against the machine, he got a crew to the venue and rolled film. The band has come back from a nine-year hiatus to wake up a nation that's been spoon-fed a lifestyle of reality television and music that has done all to desensitize the senses. The band focused its charge live on the BBC, being fed an audio uplink from DC3 and Rockpit.com. Their voice screams for a new kind of revolution through their hit 'Killing in the Name', off of their album 'Rage Against the Machine'.
Currently the hot topic on Facebook, RATM is synonymous with a campaign to get their hit to the Christmas Number One spot on British Radio. They are currently trying to beat out Joe McElderry's song, 'The Climb,' to make a point that we the people are sick of reality shows like The X Factor, a monopoly ran by Simon Cowell. Speaking on Cowell, De La Roche tells NME News, “He's an interesting character. He seems to have profited greatly off humiliating people on television and has a unique position of capturing the attention of people on television, but also the airwaves. We see this campaign as a necessary break of that control.”
The song did not make it through its entirety once De La Roche screamed “Fuck you I won't do what you tell me.” And much like the infamous Jim Morrison screaming higher, De La Roche and Rage were faded off of the live air and silenced by a society that deems freedom of speech acceptable only in the comforts of your internal domicile. The BBC spent all morning (December 17, 2009) apologizing to the world for the bands use of vulgar language, seemingly content to silence a voice trying to shake the herds to wake and not be bitten by a numbness that has left all of us comfortable in our bliss.
In a time where technology is destroying the face-to-face time humans need to grow, and learn, music is trying to forge a gap that doesn't only need to be bridged, but destroyed for the good of any society. For a company to apologize and a band to stand firm in its beliefs leaves a gap of choosing sides. Reality television has made the viewer a bully, feeding off the pain of others, laughing at others shortcomings. RATM has taken this style to the net level are going to battle a society that hinges solely on this shortcoming. If buying a sing will awaken the restless, then count me in. After all, I'd rather fight than lie there silently while getting raped by a nameless society.