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I feel like most adverts these days feature a pop song. It seems like the age of jingles has ended. So I want to know if this is really artists 'selling out' or if it's just become industry standard. I mean, a lot of smaller acts get their big break because their song is picked up by a commercial retailer. Is that so bad?
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Go easy on the bespectacled bald one. He's kindly make lots of his music freely available on his website to "independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short". Any PR and marketing that comes out of that is merely coincidence, ok?
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This completely astounds me.
The total acceptence of this.
Just bending over and taking from behind.I am part of an Independent music publishers
whose main ethic is that we say no to advertising campaigns.
yes we`ve been asked.... and maybe our wallets are not
looking quite as good as if we had said yes.But I`m paitent and I`d rather our music
seeped into the collective consciousness
through less abrasive and aggressive means.Let us for one moment discard the obvious.
The artists wealth....of course when Dylan
sold out to Victoria`s secrets and Starbucks
it wasnt for the money.Here`s the man who sung
`not much is really sacred' you got that right Bobby!
I think the big hitters do it because they cant stand being
out of the public eye for one second and this is an easy route to the
masses...its just pure vanity errrrrrrggghhhhhh.As for new and upcoming artists, well I`m afraid if you chose the path
of creativity you may have to experience a bit of suffering....Either that or you can join the ranks of the the smug and be
launched onto the public as part of a marketing man`s
smart arse wank thus forever sullying any personal
connection with the music.
But then you cant call it art anymore anyway.
We could then go onto argue what is art?
But life is too short.I cant stand Moby he stands for everything I dont.
The split has begun, chose your sides.
`The ends cannot justify the means,
for the simple and obvious
reason that the means employed
determine the nature of the ends produced.'Aldous Huxley
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Wait, which came first, richjm? Did you stop watching TV in 1999?
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I like the rogue pi in the denominator. I spent five minutes just now trying to nerdily justify it somehow but then realized it Just Needs To Be There.
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I quite like Moby having his music in adverts. When my favourite bands get their music in commercials, it ruins them a little bit for me and I can't listen to that song again. With Moby, there isn't really a risk of that. You can't really ruin the colour beige.
Moby's music in adverts makes me think of dinner parties and health farms. Neither of which I go to, so no real risk of either being ruined.
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Sloan - the pi could be to work out the circle of music, i.e. how long before a trend repeats itself. The cheat's way is to measure the distance between The Velvet Underground and The Strokes and divide by The Ramones.
