And what the f**k's with Iggy doing adverts!!!!
I don't have any problem at all with people making money, hell, I'm an entrepreneur myself, but as others have said in this thread, it's about -how- you make them.
I'd be utterly disappointed if I saw Eldritch do a commercial like the one Iggy is doing...it's simply humiliating, Iggy shouldn't -need- to do this for a living. I can very well understand if some jobless 20-year-old (like I was in those days) have to walk around with a plate saying go eat at KFC, dressed like a chicken - certainly not the coolest job on earth, but maybe you have to suffer to survive - but Iggy making a clown out of himself, saying things he doesn't mean (I presume), when he doesn't even need it (I presume), is extremely disappointing and embarrassing to watch.
No matter what you think about capitalism or making money.
I'd be utterly disappointed if I saw Eldritch do a commercial like the one Iggy is doing...it's simply humiliating, Iggy shouldn't -need- to do this for a living. I can very well understand if some jobless 20-year-old (like I was in those days) have to walk around with a plate saying go eat at KFC, dressed like a chicken - certainly not the coolest job on earth, but maybe you have to suffer to survive - but Iggy making a clown out of himself, saying things he doesn't mean (I presume), when he doesn't even need it (I presume), is extremely disappointing and embarrassing to watch.
No matter what you think about capitalism or making money.
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Can't remember the company, but Lemmy hawked the services of some insurance firm back in the early 90s. The ad was pretty good, as I recall. Not to mention them using Ace of Spades and Phil Hartman to sell NotPoodle - the fact that it gave some viewers seizures just seemed appropriate.
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And Walkers Crisps and Kit KatsEvilBastard wrote:Can't remember the company, but Lemmy hawked the services of some insurance firm back in the early 90s. The ad was pretty good, as I recall. Not to mention them using Ace of Spades and Phil Hartman to sell NotPoodle - the fact that it gave some viewers seizures just seemed appropriate.
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Tom Waits is the best with this ads case. he earned a lot of money on that by suing companies what used his music in ad(s) without permission.
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Weird - I would never have bought that pretty blue gun from Smith & Wesson if it hadn't been for Tom Waits' track on the ad...Bartek wrote:Tom Waits is the best with this ads case. he earned a lot of money on that by suing companies what used his music in ad(s) without permission.
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Nice advertthe-happening wrote:Peter Murpy did maxwell tapes back in the day.Silence is platinum wrote:Wasn t Peter Murphy doing an advertisement for batteries i think..
and Lou Reed for motorcycles..
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Ozzy doing World of Warcraft? Mind you, he joins such thesps' as Bill Shatner and Mr. T!
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Not to mention The McCain campaign here in the US using 'Running On Empty'. Of all the people who would never vote for John McCain under any circumstances, Jackson Browne is the exemplar. He was not amusedBartek wrote:Tom Waits is the best with this ads case. he earned a lot of money on that by suing companies what used his music in ad(s) without permission.
And of course, VW and 'Pink Moon'...but it's hard to protect your rights when you're dead I just always found it perversely amusing that people loved that ad without having the first clue what the song was about (my boyfriend at the time being one of them... )
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Yeah but Ozzy sold all his credibility a long time ago.timsinister wrote:Ozzy doing World of Warcraft?
Sharo-o-o-o-o-on!
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Or the NFL using Every Day is Like Sunday. It's a cover, not actually Morrissey's version, but still... And I'm even a big (US) football fan.Hom_Corleone wrote:A bit like the BBC using Perfect Day.Quiff Boy wrote:aye
its often the case when ad agencies take a song out of context in order to use it's main chorus
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But then again I'm a big Muse fan and you can't watch TV for more than an hour without hearing one of their tunes behind some ad or another. Same goes for the Editors. Ho hum. I think I'll have to think it out agian...
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True - Shatner, Special K, and Mr. T, Snickers?markfiend wrote:Yeah but Ozzy sold all his credibility a long time ago.timsinister wrote:Ozzy doing World of Warcraft?
Sharo-o-o-o-o-on!
He's even successfully sued for companies using "sound alikes" - not even his own voice or even songs but apparently just for sounding too much like him.Bartek wrote:Tom Waits is the best with this ads case. he earned a lot of money on that by suing companies what used his music in ad(s) without permission.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/n ... guys-again
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Ultimately, why not?
He can't have that many more touring years left in him, so earning a bit of retirement cash doesn't strike me as particularly heinious.
As for Von - frankly, I doubt enough people know/care who he is these days for any self-respecting company to part with cash for him to endorse their product. If he's lucky, he might just get to explain why the cats prefer brand x!
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Ultimately, why not?
He can't have that many more touring years left in him, so earning a bit of retirement cash doesn't strike me as particularly heinious.
As for Von - frankly, I doubt enough people know/care who he is these days for any self-respecting company to part with cash for him to endorse their product. If he's lucky, he might just get to explain why the cats prefer brand x!
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Car insurance company Swiftcover, which features Iggy Pop in its adverts has admitted it refuses to cover musicians
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... cians.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... cians.html
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"Advertiser makes misleading advert" shock.
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AND A PEDO...markfiend wrote:"Advertiser makes misleading advert" shock.
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an update:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8023358.stm
Iggy Pop advert deemed misleading
A TV commercial for insurance featuring rock star Iggy Pop has been ruled as misleading by the advertising watchdog.
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The company said that it had now become one of the few insurers to offer policies to performers in the music industry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8023358.stm
Iggy Pop advert deemed misleading
A TV commercial for insurance featuring rock star Iggy Pop has been ruled as misleading by the advertising watchdog.
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The company said that it had now become one of the few insurers to offer policies to performers in the music industry.
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