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| From | "*Bill Holmes*" <bholmes_fm@msn.com> |
| Subject | Re: Fountains of Wayne - sell out! |
| Date | Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:11:35 -0500 |
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<Don>
> Just saw a commercial for Dr. Pepper with "Stacy's Mom" playing in the
> background. It goes like this; Mom (that looks NOTHING like the Stacy's
Mom in the
> video. She looks like a June Cleaver with short dark hair) drives up in a
> minivan after a soccer game. Brings the team of 10 year olds a cooler of
Dr.
> Pepper. They love it. Very BORING! ! ! And a waste how to trivialize a
great song.
Uh, Don - the fact that she looked "ordinary" was THE POINT...it was the
beverage that was "hot". I thought it was hysterical - a great take on a
great video (which itself was a great take on other classic videos and movie
scenes). I still think Dr. Pepper tastes like shit though.
As to the whole corporate sellout thing....the only time I get peeved is
when someone ELSE owns the artist's songs and does that (Jackhole selling
Beatles tunes, for example). And even then, if it were a new band, I might
even blame them for letting their publishing get away. (Mulligans to the old
bands who were too stupid to know the value of publishing, but after thirty
years of horror stories about artistic rape, even a garage band knows to
hang on (mike) to their songs).
<Eytan>
>But for me the problem with the commercial is that the mother is
>bringing the Dr. Pepper to a group that's made up exclusively of boys.
> If she's "Stacy's Mom," then who and where is Stacy?
<ROFL> Eytan, I love your perspective on things! Hopefully Stacy's mom isn't
using the pop to pimp her ho daughter in the van.
<Jaimie>
>First...anyone stop and think that Fountains Of Wayne may not even be
>responsible for the placement of this song in the Dr.Pepper ad?
Hard to say - some artists exercise a fanatical oversight of such matters,
but this usually means approval of the final product, which usually sends
the ad companies or sponsors moving down the list to the next artist.
There's enough trouble selling a spot to a company without having to go
through the expense and trouble of getting the artist's management dotting
every "i" and crossing every "t". And there are plenty of artists who would
simply say "$100K for Dr. Pepper? OK" and be done with it, figuring the
nature of the product would keep them safe from serious embarrassment.
b
NP: "?", that Enuff Znuff album that somehow was released last year without
sending a big flare over Chez Billy.
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