Originally Posted by misslibertine:
“the first part of your post i've emboldened makes no sense to me, but that's not the part i take issue with so let's forget that bit atm.
the second highlighted part baffles me too - to me, this campaign has "watered down their message" for them. people who knew nothing about the band prior to this and don't want to learn any more about them will now know the song not as a rally against the government and oppression, as intended, but as a song to download blindly to try and piss off simon cowell
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“the first part of your post i've emboldened makes no sense to me, but that's not the part i take issue with so let's forget that bit atm.
the second highlighted part baffles me too - to me, this campaign has "watered down their message" for them. people who knew nothing about the band prior to this and don't want to learn any more about them will now know the song not as a rally against the government and oppression, as intended, but as a song to download blindly to try and piss off simon cowell
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How does it make no sense? It's pretty obvious that there is a stereotypical male look that you need to be successful in the charts these days - that's why Metallica cut their hair and went clean-shaven in the 90s, because otherwise they looked too 'alternative' to the mainstream.
As for the second part of your post, you seem to be resting your whole argument on the idea that most people buying this will know nothing about RATM. I personally don't think very many people will buy the song if they don't like it - the people who don't like it will either buy the X-Factor or one of the other Xmas singles.
