One of my first vivid memories of realizing my parents had a life before my existence was when I saw a picture of my mum as a teenager at a club.
It might not seem like much right now, but when you’re a little kid, understand that your parents used to be young and non-parents was quite a revelation. Seeing it was incredibly mind-blowing.
So what will happen with the coming-soon generation of kids whose parents not only have documented their every-weekend but also announced the moment they became parents?
Thanks to the will of the people who had something to say; and the possibility to speak out that Facebook and other ‘social media / web 2.0′ tools gave them; Killing in the Name has become the Christmas No 1 of 2009 in the UK.
The group and event urging people to buy Killing in the Name this week to take Rage Against the Machine to Christmas Number 1 has dissapeared from Facebook after reaching nearly 700.000 members.
Simon Cowell seems to be quite angry at the idea of people buying good music instead of the over-produced-mediocre-shit-sang-by-morons he creates.
Tracy and Jon from London started a facebook group for a bit of a laugh a few days ago.
The intention of the group was to urge people to buy ‘Killing in the Name’ during the week prior to Christmas transforminig it into the Christmas Single No. 1