How Seven Nation Army inspired the political chant of a generation

No one knows who started it, but the chant that accompanied Jeremy Corbyn’s rise is here to stay

“Oh, Jeremy Corbyn.” For some people this adaptation of the football chant based on the White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army is nothing less than an anthem for a political watershed. Ubiquitous and inescapable, it’s a shared celebration of the moment when a no-hoper led an unprecedented popular movement and knocked established wisdom back on its heels.

For others, it’s symbolic of the empty hero-worship that constitutes the new left, of vapid communal feelgood moments and a cult of personality masking politics that shade from the inept into the disturbing. It might have turned you on to Jack White’s now-defunct garage blues duo or it might have ruined them for you forever. Either way, it is the earworm to beat all earworms.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2g0CRQc