Because RATM is one of the greatest albums of all time and screaming “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” is massively badass.
Killing in the Name was Christmas Number 1 in 2009, it was a protest against X Factor domination. That was before streaming counted towards the charts, but it really made the song huge.
It was a great upset. And then for #1 spot on the UK Christmas charts, BBC invited RATM to play the song live. They were asked to keep it censored, of course they did not. Show was awkwardly cut short. Performance went viral. The rest is history.
Gonna give another interesting take,
RATM’s eponymous album considered to have one of the best Mix and Master ever, so we sound engineers use that exact track to test and calibrate different sound systems. I always play Killing in the Name first to hear what’s different in a sound system. I’m sure me only contributed around 5k of that stat over the years.
Damn that’s a cool take I had never known about - thanks for that
That’s probably just Paul Ryan listening to the song on repeat.
How many angry teens retreat to their room and hit it up on the stereo after their mum has told them to bring her their dirty laundry?
I wonder why this song has so many plays?
To answer your question, I’d say no: you do not wonder why this song has so many plays.
Glad I could help answer that question.
there was just a tiny bit of sarcasm with that question
It is a divisive song that is more popular than it should be, but many popular songs are divisive.
It’s divisive? I can’t think of a single person I know who doesn’t like that song. Even the ones that are boot lickers.
