Political pop that could actually change the world

[imomus]

Eminem Mosh. He says 'Fuck Bush'. He says 'No more blood for oil'. He says 'Kerry on, give me hope'. He says 'Vote on November 2nd'. And the imagery in the video says a lot more. A message like this, from a star as big as Eminem, could actually change the outcome of the US election. Who says pop music is all neutered, spayed and tame? Who says that nothing anyone says makes a blind bit of difference? As brilliantly political as anything Bob Dylan did at the height of the 60s protest boom. Positively Brechtian.

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Re: ITS viewers to vote!

[gillen.livejournal.com]

I'll make a prediction. If Kerry wins, then the subsequent election will have the lowest voter turnout of all time, as the youth vote (and everyone else) will have finally had it definitively proven that Pepsi and Coke are parity products, that choosing between them is a meaningless waste of time, and that no possible "third" option exists in the present political structure. Four years after that and whoever is inaugurated president might well have to make it from Capitol Hill to the White House via underground tunnel rather than the surface streets.