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Internett demokratiserer. Det slipper til flere stemmer. Innholdsløse stemmer. Og viktige stemmer. Hvem som er viktig og hvem som er innholdsløs avgjøres av mottakeren. Men alle slipper til.

Bob Lefsetz slipper til. En nettside dere kan legge inn i RSS-leseren deres med en gang. Og Bob har noe å si om rockestjerner:

A rock star is not someone who takes the temperature, who gauges the marketplace before he creates his “art”. A rock star is someone who needs to create and is willing to tolerate the haters along with the fans. He’s someone who incites controversy just by existing. That’s what we lost in the dash for cash. Unique voices.

Men nettet kan endre dette. Vi kan fÃ¥ tak i de unike stemmene igjen. Vi kan la oss provosere. Bob fører oss sÃ¥ til en ekte rockestjerne. Art Alexakis og Everclear. Og lÃ¥ten “Jesus was a democrat”:

I bet you think of him
As a nice clean long haired Republican, nah
He would be all locked up in Guantanamo Bay
If he were alive today
He would have been a revolutionary
Wanted by the CIA

…

If Jesus was alive today
And you had a chance to meet him face to face
I’m pretty God-damned sure that you and your friends
Would find some way to kill him all over again
You would kill him all over again
Again and again and again
Just like you always do

Teksten provoserer nok mang en Amerikaner og sikkert en og annen person utenfor USA også. Og Mr. Lefsetz fremhever noe av det som er viktig her:

Music like this isn’t going to be played on Top Forty radio. MTV doesn’t even air any videos. You’ve got to give music like this away for free. Which is exactly what Everclear is doing.

LÃ¥ten, teksten og coveret kan du hente hos Everclear.

Og det er da internettet trer i kraft. Fordi mange kommer til å følge Bob sin oppfordring:

If you like what you hear, tell others. Not because I’ve got a financial interest, but because this is the only way we’re going to beat the traditional infrastructure, the only way we’re going to combat the profiteers who tell us we must make pop tunes so bland they can sell everything from toothpaste to movies.

Rock on!

Tagger: bob lefsetz, demokrati, everclear,