“Killing in the name” becomes a billionaire

The ‘billionaires’ club on Spotify is growing ever larger. Now the classic dei has also become part of it Rage Against the Machine “Killing In The Name”.

To celebrate the achievement of this milestone, the band’s guitarist Tom Morello posted the following message on his X account: “”Killing In The Name” just reached one billion streams on Spotify! Thanks to everyone who listened to it: to those who loved it, to those who hated it and to those who appreciated it without understanding it. clear proof that rebellious music and irony are alive and well.”

Last November, ahead of the US presidential elections,
Tom Morello

attacked some so-called fans of the band for misunderstanding the politics he and his bandmates have supported since the group formed more than three decades ago.

Also on could stand on contemporary issues. I spoke to a couple in a restaurant recently, they were big fans of ‘Killing In The Name’ she said, ‘I love that song followed against the vaccine!’ She was sitting there chewing and blinking, chewing and blinking.” .

When a user of the platform asked Morello about his response to the lady at the restaurant, the guitarist replied: “My brother. You can do whatever you want. As far as I’m concerned, you can cough Covid into the mouth of your MAGA grandfather. But if you presume to tell a guy who was actually in the room when the song was written what the song is ‘really’ about, then I reserve the right to raise my hand and say ‘no, ma’am.'”

Tom Morello has repeatedly stated that

“Killing In The Name” is an anti-establishment protest song against systemic racism and brutality in the US police force. Despite this, the US Army used “Killing In TheName” to torture detainees in the Guantanamo detention camp, playing the song at full volume during sensory deprivation sessions.

In 2009, an online campaign to get “Killing In The Name” topped the UK Christmas charts before the champions of the X Factor talent show was successful, supported by Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney hey Prodigy. The campaign gave the Rage Aganist the Machine a Guinness World Record for the best-selling digital track in the UK with 502,672 downloads in one week.

In 2022, Tom Morello on his Twitter account he warned: “People who feel offended by my political views on Twitter or Instagram, know that it’s because they weren’t smart enough to know what the music they were listening to all these years was about. For music, you are the welcome, but if you are a white supremacist or a proto-fascist, that music is not written for you. It is written against you.”