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Manic Street Preachers | Masses Against The Classes

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Tekst: Rivka de Jonge

Publicatiedatum: 31 januari 2000

This is not an easy single to review, and with me being an 'old' Manics fan, I listen to this song with mixed feelings. One has to admit that this is indeed a brilliant song and that it is quite like the way the Manics used to be when there were still four and everyone hated them. Yet you can't help but wonder whether they really mean what they sing anymore. Sure, "our love is unconditional/our hate is yours to feed upon" is a genuine Nicky Wire lyric (no, not a genuine Richey James lyric!) and he probably means it, but is it still genuine anger and hate towards the world? This is probably something Nicky felt too, as the preceding lyric is "can you feel like it was before". But how can you honestly believe he means it when he says "success is an ugly word" when they've got singles going to number one in the charts and play a sell-out show to nearly sixty-thousand people on New Year's Eve?
So when James Dean Bradfield then shouts at the end that "a slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown" you can't help but think that sentence probably applies more to them than they themselves realise and, for that matter, want to admit.
Maybe it's time for us all, both the band and the fans, to realise that songs like 'You Love Us' are the past, and that 'You Stole The Sun From My Heart' is the future. That is, if there is a future...

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