Bad taste revolution

Watching the Ukrainian entry on the Eurovision Song Contest last night was a salutary reminder that revolutionary music doesn't have to be good. The song, 'Razom Nas Bahato, Nas Ne Podolaty!' ('Together we are many, we can't be defeated!') was the anthem of last year's Orange Revolution. And, quite frankly, it totally sucks. Even the Eurovision audience, not known for its sophisticated musical taste (cf. the last 50 years of the competition), gave this dross a resounding thumbs down.
Hipsters (myself included) often talk about the revolutionary potential of music and imagine a song so good, so motivating that it will totally change our lives. Usually this fantasy coalesces around a piece by an agit-prop group such as The Clash (e.g. 'White Riot') or The Redskins "('Kick over the statues'), or by a singer-songwriter such as Dylan, Billy Bragg, and so on. In fact, the history books show that successful revolutions are as frequently soundtracked by dross or cheap nationalism as by works of great merit. Think back to Berlin, 1989. What are the people of East Germany singing as the wall falls: David Hasselhoff's execrable 'Looking for Freedom'. Or reconsider Estonia's 'Singing Revolution' of 1988-1991, where hundreds of thousands of Estonians gathered to sing patriotic anthems and demand independence from the Soviet Union.
Go back as far as the Belgian revolution of 1830, which kicked off during a performance of Daniel Auber's "sentimental and patriotic" opera, 'La Muette de Portici', and again the cognoscenti shudder at the crassness of it all. The Happy Tutor envisages a new US revolution beginning with mass performances of 'This land is my land'. Maybe a Diane Warren power ballad would be a better choice? I vote for 'If I could turn back time'.