Like it or not, music and politics go together like chocolate and peanut butter. Understanding the marriage is PoliRock.com, a social network that is looking to define the greatest political bands of all time.
Both musicians and fans can create personal profiles and do all of the usual stuff: create profiles, upload pictures, interact and so on. What sets PoliRock apart is that they are turning unsigned acts into candidates.
Each band can campaign for votes. The group without a record deal that garners the most votes by Election Day (November 4, 2008), will win a prize pack including $5,000.
There’s also a place for major label bands and indie label bands. Each category is ranked by votes, meaning that the more votes you receive, the higher on the list you appear.
Users can also assign a band with a political label. For example, PoliRock currently lists U2 as a “Republican” band. While I don’t necessarily love this aspect of the site, it’s sure to get some people talking.
Originally posted on June 23, 2008 @ 9:52 am
I thought for sure there was no way U2 was voted as a “Republican” band, so I went to the site and here’s what it is: they’re a certain percent Democrat, a certain percent Independent, a certain percent Republican, and a certain percent “Canadian” (weird, huh?). They’re actually voted as mostly Democrat, and then second most independent, but if you rank out the bands by Republican votes, U2 comes in fifth place, whereas if you rank them according to Democrat (which they actually have more Democrat than Republican votes), they come in something like 12th place. I guess a lot of bands have a lot of Democratic votes and U2 happens to have a lot of Republican votes too.