F**k you I wont do what you tell me!! ...but I will do what he tells me. written by: Lee Richmond posted on: 17 December 2009
So I'm pretty sure everyone has heard about this in some form or another by now, on Monday the winner of X-Factor released his first single just in time to compete for Christmas number one, but at the same time a campaign has been started to get the song "Killing in the Name of" by Rage Against the Machine to number one to keep the X-Factor winner from the top spot.
To be perfectly honest this whole thing seems pretty flawed to me, as it has been pointed out to me many times, the reason for choosing Killing in the name of is because of the lyrics "f**k you I wont do what you tell me!!"
This is meant as some form of protest towards the money making machine known as Simon Cowell, yet what strikes me as odd is that someone has turned around and told anyone who read the page on Facebook or where ever else they have heard about this, to go out and buy a copy of "Killing in the name of" either from the shops or from iTunes.
Now as far as I am concerned I don't like either song and would much rather see something like The Little Drummer Boy by David Bowie and Bing Crosby in the number one spot this Christmas, but surely in following the instructions of who ever started this protest, it strikes me that people are blindly doing as they are told only this time not by someone who stands to profit from it?
I posted my thoughts about this on my Facebook page yesterday and one response I got is that the same logic expressed above could be used for the majority of things we do in life. I don't know about anyone else but I wasn't told to become a web developer, I chose this career path because I wanted to do something that I am passionate about and that I enjoy. I was not told which house to rent I looked at various properties and made and informed decision based on what I had seen. I didn't swap my car for the one I have now because I was told to, I swapped it because I have a great love of Japanese cars and have wanted the car I've got for years.
All I can say is that if people genuinely believe that their path in life has been forged by doing as they are told, they should really go back and maybe re-think a few things
