China pans new Guns N’ Roses album
The long-delayed Gun N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy has finally been released. China is not amused.
A newspaper published by China’s ruling Communist Party is blasting the latest Guns N’ Roses album as an attack on the Chinese nation.
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In an article Monday headlined “American band releases album venomously attacking China,” the Global Times said unidentified Chinese Internet users had described the album as part of a plot by some in the West to “grasp and control the world using democracy as a pawn.”
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The Global Times article referred only to the title of the album and not to specific song lyrics. The record’s title track makes a reference to the Falun Gong meditation movement that was banned by China as an “evil cult” and warns “if your Great Wall rocks blame yourself,” in an apparent message to the country’s authoritarian government.
Chinese Democracy will probably not be approved for legal sale in China, but that is unlikely to stop determined Chinese fans from obtaining a copy.
I don’t really know about the politics, but the first single that is receiving airplay isn’t all that great. Almost too much, trying to be everything. Oh well.