LOLapalooza (See What I Did There?)

So, apparently, AT&T sponsored a live webcast of Lollapalooza and censored the lyrics "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush, find yourself another home" while Pearl Jam was doing a cover of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2".

Now, the blogs are getting all up in arms about political censorship and whatnot, and that's all well and good. I don't know what kind of dicks you have to be to censor your webcasts, or who they were really afraid of offending. Because, seriously, WHO KNEW that rock bands (especially Pearl Jam) leaned left?

So, sure, we could look at this like it's politically motivated, but we here at Swim Through Frequencies prefer to think that AT&T censored those lyrics because they were really, really lame. Maybe the guys at AT&T are big Pink Floyd fans, and they were just embarrassed by Vedder and Co. ruining a classic song.

Nothing against Pearl Jam, I guess. "Daughter" is a pretty sweet song. It's just that there are reasons why Pink Floyd is considered one of the greatest rock bands of all time, and there are reasons why Pearl Jam isn't.

Although they DO both have stupid names.