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Title: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: Army of One on December 20, 2009, 02:55:48 PM: Every year in UK in December the X-factor (UK Pop Idol) announces its winner and for the last 4 years Cowell gets them to sing someone elses song and it gets to Christmas Number one.Some guy had had enough with the manufactured crap and made a facebook group to put Rage Against the Machines 1993 song "killing in the Name of" to number one for Christmas, 500,000 people bought it and pushed Cowells X-factor song to number 2, never underestimate the power of the people!!

X-factor top 10 finalists singing Killing in the name of :D
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Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: Bobby on December 20, 2009, 04:20:44 PM: brutal youtube advertising
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: Ursus on December 20, 2009, 04:21:01 PM: Both companies are owned by Sony so I am sure Cowell wins no matter what. I may be wrong but he def wins either way.
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: pedro01 on December 20, 2009, 04:22:25 PM: Quite brilliant.

All you end up with from Cowell is lowest common denominator music.

I'll be turning up Rage on Christmas morning now...
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: Army of One on December 20, 2009, 04:25:59 PM: Quote from: Ursus on December 20, 2009, 04:21:01 PM
Both companies are owned by Sony so I am sure Cowell wins no matter what. I may be wrong but he def wins either way.

Maybe in the short term, but dont think for a second Cowells main cashcow in the UK, X-factor, didnt take a huge long term hit from this.
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: Method101 on December 20, 2009, 04:52:25 PM: who gives a fuck
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: Army of One on December 20, 2009, 04:54:59 PM: Quote from: Method101 on December 20, 2009, 04:52:25 PM
who gives a fuck

Your mom on a saturday night, behind the 7-11, for $3 and half a pack of gum.
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: HTexan on December 21, 2009, 12:30:04 AM: Must suck to buy a song you already have tho.
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: d0nny2600 on December 21, 2009, 03:35:23 AM: Quote from: db2431 on December 20, 2009, 04:54:59 PM
Your mom on a saturday night, behind the 7-11, for $3 and half a pack of gum.
;D
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: the_steevo_uk on December 21, 2009, 03:56:42 AM: All thanks to Facebook!! So those of you that think that sort of stuff is pointless are behind the times!

it is actually pretty amazing that the X factor machine was put to the sword, yeah cowell will probably still make a lot of money, but I think the point was made...enough shoving shitty music from your yearly caraoke show down people's throats.
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: Army of One on December 21, 2009, 04:04:04 AM: Quote from: the_steevo_uk on December 21, 2009, 03:56:42 AM
All thanks to Facebook!! So those of you that think that sort of stuff is pointless are behind the times!

it is actually pretty amazing that the X factor machine was put to the sword, yeah cowell will probably still make a lot of money, but I think the point was made...enough shoving shitty music from your yearly caraoke show down people's throats.

True, its actually a huge landmark and imagine its uses for rallying people in elections etc.
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: Saxon on December 21, 2009, 04:19:09 AM: It wouldn't surprise me if Sony was behind the whole idea...but I'm surprised so many people actually gave a fuck who was Christmas Number 1.
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: spinnis on December 21, 2009, 04:26:13 AM: why the fake video?

so they are About to sing it?
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: L00n on December 21, 2009, 05:02:23 AM: Quote from: db2431 on December 20, 2009, 04:54:59 PM
Your mom on a saturday night, behind the 7-11, for $3 and half a pack of gum.

pwned.
Title: Re: UK owns Simon Cowell
Post by: JasonH on December 21, 2009, 05:07:22 AM: Quote from: Ursus on December 20, 2009, 04:21:01 PM
Both companies are owned by Sony so I am sure Cowell wins no matter what. I may be wrong but he def wins either way.

Not entirely sure about that - Cowell doesn't own Sony so he won't get a cut of Rage's sales. ???

Cowell is part of BMG which is owned by Sony and runs his production company Syco as well. He probably doesn't care to be honest - he's already practically a billionaire.