Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name’ just achieved one billion streams.
Guitarist Tom Morello took to X to share the band’s win and sent a message to the haters.
“‘KILLING IN THE NAME’ just hit 1 billion streams on Spotify! Thanks to all those who listened to it: those who love it, those who hate it, and those that have enjoyed it without understanding it. Righteous proof that rebel music and irony are alive and well,” he wrote.
Morello has mostly been using his social media to share his political views and even criticize some Rage Against The Machine fans. In one of his posts a few years back, the guitarist said the fans ‘weren’t intelligent enough’ to understand the band’s political messages.
“Never ceases to amaze me how many folks who’ve heard RATM are in Paul Ryan mode, having literally ZERO understanding of anything that band was about and even less understanding where any of us might stand on contemporary issues,” began his tweet.
“Recently was talking to a couple at a restaurant who were big fans of ‘Killing In The Name.’ The nice lady said, ‘I love that song. It helped me rage against my parents and later against the jab!’ I said, ‘Ma’am that song is about racist cops who often behave like the Ku Klux Klan in service of historical white supremacy and are boot licking lackeys and thugs of the racist capitalist ruling class.’ She sat there chewing and blinking, chewing and blinking.”
Responding to a user’s reply about the matter, Morello added, “If she presumes to tell a fella 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.'”
A couple years earlier, Morello and other users on X mocked fans who only just realized that Rage Against The Machine is a political band.
