But I Doubt It
Allen September 23rd, 2004
My son and I were coming home from Scouts the other night in my car. I had the radio tuned to the Buzz when Green Day’s American Idiot came on. Here is a snippet of the lyrics from a popup laden site:
Don’t want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It’s going out to idiot America.
As a note, The Buzz is owned by Clear Channel Communications who racked in $8B in sales last year (pdf).
Also note Green Day’s record company is Reprise Records, a division of Warner Brothers Records, itself a child of Warner Brothers who is (finally) an offspring of TimeWarner. TimeWarner had sales of $39B last year (pdf).
Commenting on hysteria, TimeWarner owns both CNN and Time magazine.
One could say that Green Day’s lyrics are meta-ironic….
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Acorns From An Okie notices that Rock ‘N’ Roll Rebellion is getting harder all the time:My son and I were coming home from Scouts the other night in my car. I had the radio tuned to the Buzz when Green