Well, as the man (aka our belovéd Bono) said, "Make up your own minds!"
George Michael's got a new video out, that's apparently causing a bit of an uproar. (Thank goodness dotmusic tells me this things, otherwise I'd never know *wry grin*).
The vid's up on the website linked above, if you'd care to see it...Cartoon-versions of the singer, Bush, Blair, others...and has Bush completely amused by a sock-puppet. I...I don't know. I mean... I don't know. People shouldn't *ever* be lambasted for speaking their minds (unless they're completely ignorant of the facts). But, at the same time...it *does* bug me when they endlessly make out our president to be a complete moron. Cos he's not.
'Course, in a different article: "'Shoot the Dog' was written before September's terrorist attacks on New York and was meant as a criticism of Tony Blair. However, Michael claims that Americans have misinterpreted the song's message and mistakenly taken it to be an attack on US foreign policy."
And it *does* look that way, it really does. ...I think...I think he should've been more aware of the fact that that's how it looks to us now. ...why wasn't this done *then*, *before* all this stuff went down? ..I'd still be annoyed at making Bush out to be like a two-year-old, but not as much. And some of the images in the vid...yeah.
Add onto all of this the fact that this guy's not an American...and you've *gotta* know this's gonna piss people off here. It's hitting on Bush just as heavily sa it is on Blair.
So yeah, say what you want, I firmly believe in freedom of speech...but...I dunno. The whole video..is just kinda..I dunno. Distasteful. And maybe a lot of it's supposed to be, but... ...meh. And he's griping about it being misinterpreted, but..dude, I couldn't even make out half the words, it's a pop/dance-thing. Not exactly the best format for a protest song, of any sort.

Meanwhile, in simpler, happier news... a drummer has a tv show. ^_^ ...drummer with Stereophonics, who're pretty cool (*aaaand* opened for U2 *g*). Sadly, is only being broadcast to like, BBC Wales, so far, but...*shrug* That's still unfathomably cool. Drummers rock. ^_^