Split

There has, sadly but perhaps also intriguingly, been a split within the ranks of Rockstars Against Freedom, with some members breaking off to form a new project, Countercultural Icons of Humanity, taking their name from a line from the Rockstars’ very recent song, Undying Obedience (We Offer it to You). The remaining Rockstars have however taken issue with the “cultural appropriation” of that line, and the way forward for the new group is not as smooth as presumably previously envisaged. 

“There are no hard feelings, and you can be sure they all remain the best of friends,” insisted a lawyer, “but my clients, Rockstars Against Freedom, will not be slow in suing for any unlawful use of that line: Countercultural icons of humanity. My clients accept that the member who penned that beautiful, powerful and poetic line has now left the group, but these words are clearly now the intellectual property of Rockstars Against Freedom, and they are not willing under any circumstances to give them up. I assured them that in my professional opinion no serious court of law will declare otherwise. My clients may however, having said that, be open to negotiation regarding its commercial use, especially given their devotion to the sacred traditions of artistic expression.”

Countercultural Icons of Humanity* had already scheduled their first single for release in the coming days, hoping to make a late run on the Christmas charts, but now sadly this is all put on hold until any and all relevant legal issues are resolved. The song, which for now remains unheard, is called We Are the Resistance (Resistance is Futile). The b-side is Wrapped from Head to Toe in My Freak Flag Dreaming of Liberation and Justice.

Talks were apparently in the pipeline also for a collaboration between Rockstars Against Freedom, the Corporate Whore franchise and Cirque du Soleil for a Las Vegas musical spectacular based on “the incarnate dreams of the 1960s”, but with news of the split within the Rockstars, the malignant and patriarchal energies of confusion and divisiveness have unfortunately entered and sullied the waters of the unfolding fields of possibility.

* This is merely being used here as a title of convenience rather than in any way suggesting that this is a legalistically correct and binding term of reference for the group.