Political pop that could actually change the world

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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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Any path to change is fine? The fact that kids are voting for Kerry because Eminem rehashes everything that MTV says is okay? MTV has the "Vote of Die" campaign that consists of playing two clips from both Kerry and Bush together. In one example the basic message is that drug-abusers are given harsher sentences than supposedly more serious crimes. Kerry's clip obviously supports that idea while Bush's clip has him supporting the crackdown on drug offenders. Next up, an Anti-Drug commericial! Talk to your friends about their drug problems! Smoking weed will make you kill your friends! Eminem's message is "brilliantly political?" It's about as brilliantly political as my well-informed, desperately liberal friends (who take take their cues from the likes of Claire Danes. Who didn't like "My So-Called Life?").

This is regardless of my own personal views. I don't even like Bush.