Mindless Self Indulgence Offensive?

2008-07-09 by Trey STAFF | 33 Comments
NYC electro-punk outfit Mindless Self Indulgence has been asked by iTunes to change the genre that they are filed under. Presently MSI is filed under 'religious' because of their devout fan base and cult-like following (currently having shipped 180,000 CD's in the last year alone). Apparently this has angered some Christian organizations who have filed complaints with the digital music giant to get the band's music removed from that category. Several Christians appear to have purchased the seemingly offensive material, on faith, even though it clearly was marked as being explicit material. Part of what seemed to annoy them was how well MSI's album, You'll Rebel To Anything, did reaching #27 on the iTunes Christian/gospel charts! When asked what he thought of this controversy, MSI's singer, Jimmy Urine had this to say… "It was iTunes, not us, that interpreted "religious" to mean Christian. What is offensive to some people is obviously inspirational to others. To our fans this IS inspirational music. I have no intention of changing the genre listing of this album."

Source: http://www.metropolis-records.com/news/

Tagged: Mindless Self Indulgence

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fireaboveicebelow
July 9th 2008
6835 Comments


hehe...well ok then

AtavanHalen
July 9th 2008
17919 Comments


Hilarious.

foreverendeared
July 9th 2008
14746 Comments


people are idiots i swear. this is pretty hilarious

Cuban Pete
July 9th 2008
3814 Comments


lol

Wizard
July 9th 2008
20638 Comments


They should change their genre to "Broke Up and Forgotten About". Seriously people, this is one of the worst bands out there.

HighandDriving
July 9th 2008
3288 Comments


Man they've been going at it for awhile, getting more popular with every release.

Sure they're kinda sucky but they have lasting power.



TheDistantFuture
July 9th 2008
206 Comments


Wow I don't even have put in the effort to make fun of Christian rock anymore, they made themselves look like idiots. Dimmu Borgir and Akercocke should try this next!

grief
July 9th 2008
25 Comments


So who read this article months and months ago?

Hell it was already posted on this site i do believe.

ToWhatEnd
July 9th 2008
3173 Comments


Some people are so stupid. My goodness...

Epilogue
July 9th 2008
1844 Comments


This is either really old, or i have deja vu...

Steerpike
July 9th 2008
1861 Comments


What's more hilariously stupid than Christian rock? The people who listen to it.

Willie
Moderator
July 9th 2008
20676 Comments


Well it was on the front page of their label's news section so I assumed it couldn't be too old. I also checked to make sure it wasn't already posted here, and it's not.

Daedelus
July 9th 2008
162 Comments


Mindless self indulgence is offensive to music.

Daedelus
July 9th 2008
162 Comments


Mindless self indulgence is offensive to music.

Edit: technology hates me. This Message Edited On 07.09.08

astrel
July 9th 2008
2615 Comments


I posted news at least a year ago, but the issue probably resurfaced. You know how fun-loving fundamentalist christians can be.

Jacaranda
July 9th 2008
684 Comments


Mindless self indulgence is offensive to music.

itachi1452
July 9th 2008
366 Comments


what's most offensive is how those christians seemed to think that christianity is the only religion.

niobium
July 9th 2008
238 Comments


i think this is funny

P13
July 9th 2008
1327 Comments


They should take Tera Melos out of Latin if they are gonna change their genre

botb
July 9th 2008
19934 Comments


You'll Rebel To Anything, did reaching #27 on the iTunes Christian/gospel charts!

HAHAHA

TheStarclassicTreatment
July 9th 2008
2910 Comments


I'm sure this was posted literally about a year ago...

beans
July 9th 2008
2328 Comments


christians....ugh

DaveBum69
July 9th 2008
699 Comments


Mindless self indulgence terrible???? I think so

Metalikane
July 9th 2008
851 Comments


Praise be to ye, O' Jimmy Urine. King of queens. Lord of dick sucking.

Seantmpc13
July 10th 2008
406 Comments


That is kind of funny.This Message Edited On 07.10.08

Edgecrusher
July 10th 2008
137 Comments


Mindless Self Indulgence are terrible.

StrizzMatik
July 10th 2008
4239 Comments


MSI are incredibly annoying but Frankenstein Girls is pretty dope regardless.

Zmev
July 11th 2008
983 Comments



What's more hilariously stupid than Christian rock? The people who listen to it.


what's most offensive is how those christians seemed to think that christianity is the only religion.


christians....ugh


yeah im an atheist DEAL.WITH.IT.

Golgoroth
July 11th 2008
1084 Comments


According to the article, people bought it JUST because it said "Religious".

Now I'm a Christian but that's just ridiculous. I can't believe how many people will listen to anything just because it's Christian, whether it's good or not. Get some music taste.

Urgh.

emogangstascotty
July 13th 2008
472 Comments


since no one want's to say it, MSI are suddenly HUGE because Gerald Way is some what linked to them, in some sort of way. Not too sure. Maybe he is their coffee boy?

xmOBSCENEx
November 10th 2008
122 Comments


i think this is a very good band
they are very inspirational to me
but it was pretty funny that it got that high on the charts

Titan50
February 21st 2009
4588 Comments


This is pretty fucking win

parksungjoon
February 15th 2021
47227 Comments


Mindless self indulgence is offensive to music.




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