And just as I query mainstream music's capacity to express dissent in 2011 - or, more worryingly, even acknowledge reality - Miley Cyrus - yes, that Miley Cyrus - delivers her 'Liberty Walk'. Opportunism? Heartfelt compassion? A weird hybrid of the two? Either way, the surreal presence of this song - anchored to news footage that underlines the enormity of the Occupy movement - is a welcome gesture. While nobody is really watching MTV in 2011 (the year of MTV's 30th birthday, an occasion that past unacknowledged by the network) at least if they do then a fragment of reality can now break through into the gyms where it has been consigned to loop ad infinitum. What next? An X Factor contestant covering 'Liberty Walk' against a backdrop of footage of violent clashes between Occupy protestors and riot police? That will be a whole new realm of hyper-reality - one that would vastly improve upon the mind-numbing indifference of mainstream culture to the economic uncertainties everybody bar the 99% are currently confronted with.
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