In honor of Trump visit, Brits launch campaign to lift 'American Idiot' to top of the charts

[octoberlib]

Ahead of Trump’s visit, protesters in the United Kingdom have launched a campaign to play “American Idiot” so many times that, by the time he arrives, the song is the No. 1 single in the UK. The incessant downloads started July 6 and will continue through Thursday. Protesters have been using iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Spotify and YouTube, among others, to stream and download the song.

The campaign’s official motto: “Make American Idiot Great Again

The plan, so far, appears to be working. On Amazon in the UK, “American Idiot” is currently the best-selling song.

“Us in the UK have a good record of protesting in this way,” the campaign’s founders, Keith Curle and Geoff Thomas, told The Washington Post. “We are the country who put Sex Pistols and Rage Against the Machine at No. 1 in the past.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/07/10/in-honor-of-trump-visit-brits-try-to-lift-american-idiot-to-top-of-the-charts/?utm_term=.1d04dd3257eb


Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Well maybe I'm the fa***t America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow


Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information Age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

[Cha]

1. GO Brit

Activists, making American Idiot #One for the USFraud! We love You!

This is from Captain SKA.. a Brit Group LIAR LIAR trumpMix

syringis

Mahalo, Octoberlib

[octoberlib]

2. Love this! Thanks , Cha!

[Cha]

3. You're

!!

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. July 10: 2200% tariff on English Muffins announced by Rump administration.

And "Spotted Dick" will now be known as "Freedom Dick."

[octoberlib]

5. Lol

[Midnight Writer]

6. Funny how this song makes a comeback every time we elect a Republican

[cannabis_flower]

7. Well actually

It was first recorded during GW Bush presidency, so this would be its first comeback.

[Midnight Writer]

8. You will see someday that I am merely ahead of my time.

[tavernier]

9. My London friends texted me pics of Baby Trump balloon.

They wanted assure me that it was England’s way of standing with America against the would be dictator. I told them that we are cheering on their protests of pResident Clairol.

[Dem_4_Life]

10. Yay Go Brits! Plus it is a great song.

[heaven05]

11. great song

from the young people....

[NewJeffCT]

12. American Idiot has been big lately

Tim Kaine had tweeted this last week:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210836061

[octoberlib]

14. That was a great response from Kaine.

[mountain grammy]

13. American Idiot.. they tried to warn us.

[oberliner]

15. Did this article actually quote Clickhole?

[octoberlib]

16. It did, lol. They quoted a fake article purportedly written by

the lead singer, Billy Joe Armstrong about the meaning of the song.