What we have here is a failure to listen to the words
What is it about anthemic songs and Republicans? When Ronald Reagan in 1984, and later Bob Dole in 1996, co-opted Born in the USA for their campaigns, it could only have been for the visceral arrangement and the chorus, because the verses didn’t exactly have the singer living in that “shining city upon a hill“.
British band Muse have been with us for more than a decade now, but only with their latest release, The Resistance, have they cracked the American market. The debut single from that album, Uprising sat at the top of the Billboard Alternative chart from September 2009 to January 2010.
The song has been interpreted by some to have a libertarian message, and has been used by some in the liberty and Tea Party movements as a popular anthem. The song played as conservative commentator Glenn Beck took the stage at the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference.
Lead singer Matt Bellamy explained: “The lead single, ‘Uprising’, was kind of inspired by the G20 protests which took place last year. I was in London at the time and I saw it all going on outside where I live.”He added: “I sort of found that whole protest quite inspiring really; just the idea that people just having a good time, putting together a peaceful protest but the police still do their best to make it become violent and I find that quite aggravating. So, that’s what the song’s about.”
I expect Teabaggenführer Beck would point to the quote,
“I sort of wanted to write a song that summed up that feeling like you’ve been done over by people you’re supposed to trust. That’s kind of where the song’s coming from really.”
for some sort of justification, but it’s the likes of Beck that have had the trust placed in them by their audience…
…who should be paying more attention to the words, and thinking about just who “the fat cats” of the song actually are.
March 12th, 2010 at 1:33 am
Spot the fuck ON. But then, to shallow, self-centered, greed-whore motherfuckers, why should they understand the actual lyric and MEANING, when they can just co-opt the fucking CHORUS?!?!?
More-ONNNS. More than stoopid, they're uberfucktarded.
And of course, somewhere, Karl UberClosetCase Rove is rubbing his little piggy hooves together, cackling maniacally, as he "conservatively" usurps the meaning & power of other people's work to serve his nazi aims.
Motherfucker may be semi-employed and seemingly irrelevant now, but the New World Order cockbites are still connected. That's the ONLY fucking way that Rove hasn't been publicly OUTED by now. Somehow, the male-prostitute trafficking through the White House managed to slide beneath the sheepuls' radar, but it's gotta come home at SOME fucking point, dammit.
March 12th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
This is real funny because I was just reading an article about Beck saying that Spingsteens Born in the USA was communist propaganda!
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/beck-springsteens-classic-born-usa-antiamerican-propaganda/
March 22nd, 2010 at 10:14 pm
BECK is accusing SOMEBODY ELSE of "PROPAGANDA"?!?!?!?"
Well, if that ain't the world's second-most shallow disco whore (Moby is THE worst) calling the kettle propaganda!
Fuck, at least back when he wrote THIS song, Springsteen was still something resembling a "liberal"! Of course, when his roadies tried to unionize, he turned into fucking CAPITALIST SWINE, but that was after Ronnie Ray-Gun appropriated this song.
Oh, wait…
Just went and read the link. WRONG BECK. Just as useless, but FAR MORE OF A WHORE. Fucking whiny crying titty-baby biatch boy, how in the FUCK did he ever get on television?!??!?!? Oh, wait, he's working for MURDOCH now… But still, how in the FLYING FROG FUCK did he get a JOB on CNN?!?!?!?!?
What in the fuck were THEY smoking?!?!?
Above all else, this is just another publicity stunt for a media whore with no talent, no intelligence, and no actual journalistic training WHATSOFUCKINGEVER. In other words, just another day in GlennBeckistan.
March 23rd, 2010 at 12:32 am
And what the FUCK is up with the comments on Raw Story?!?!?!
I've been trying to post a comment for TWENTY FUCKING MINUTES, and it still says, "Just a moment"!!!!!!