Way Beyond Ironic . . .

Acorns From An Okie notices that Rock 'N' Roll Rebellion is getting harder all the time:

My son and I were coming home from Scouts the other night in my car. I had the radio tuned to the Buzz
when Green Day's American Idiot came on. Here is a snippet of the lyrics from a popup laden site:

Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's going out to idiot
America.

As a note, The Buzz is owned by Clear Channel Communications who racked in $8B in sales last year (pdf).

Also note Green Day's record company is Reprise Records, a division of Warner Brothers Records, itself a child of Warner Brothers who is (finally) an offspring of TimeWarner. TimeWarner had sales of $39B last year (pdf).

Commenting on hysteria, TimeWarner owns both CNN and Time magazine. One could say that Green Day's lyrics are meta-ironic....