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So, Rage Against the Machine beats X Factor to Christmas number 1 in the U.K. I saw a few people on Facebook that had joined the group but I had no idea this would happen.

What do we make of this? Is it the first trumpet of bored young people against repetitive crappy pop music? Is it ushering in a new wave of angry music to popularity? Does it reflect a general ill-will this Christmas at events in the economy and politics? Or would you say it's just a huge, and very successful, practical joke?

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I was more partial to Rickrolling Number One last Christmas, but hey, whatever disrupts the Egg Factor.

I'm fairly sure it amounts to nothing more than a huge joke. To say Rage has been relevant in any way, shape or form in music over the last year is a kindness I will not extend to them.

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This actually had very little to do with the band in concept, as they only recently discovered what was going on and while they agreed that it was a fun joke and gave it their full support, they had never actually intended for this to happen.

They recently performed, for a radio station, an only slightly censored version of the song and, as per there usual bravado, kept the closing lyrics to the song as originally written. The performance was cut from the air, but not before they managed to slip in a few "F*** you, I won't do what ya tell me!"

I'd like to think this is equal parts practical joke to general public being fed up with the sterile and bland affront to music that generally comes from the X Factor. I do know that this movement gained momentous support from plenty of current artists, so I'd like to think that whatever it was, it was successfully disruptive in the way that only Rage can do.

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