• NielsBohron@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Knowing those two, they probably love the irony of a corporation paying money to use RTJ’s anti-capitalistic, transgressive songs in an ad, let alone a brand like Cadillac.

        But hey, it’s “ju$t” money

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            That’s a good point. I’m familiar with the concept, but didn’t realize it had been formalized so distinctly, so I suppose you’re right.

            It’s interesting, though, because one would think that’s there’s always going to be a balancing act between wanting to make your message more well known and wanting to keep it unadulterated.

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          True. Oddly enough I’ve been a DJ Shadow fan since discovering Endtroducing in the late 90s

          Also RTJ’s stuff has been featured in other commercials.

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      Any brand willing to risk it for the biscuit by using Skullgrid in an advert is ok by me.

      Band I love gets money, brand gets… confused public?

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      Microsoft blasting “Cherry Lips” was surreal.

      Some stupid bastards used “Blitzkrieg Bop.”

      Marketing robots must open Genius.com and search for any chorus with the word go.

      … an uncomfortable number of years ago the US Marines used a Godsmack song that I was only mostly sure wasn’t “Sick Of Life.”

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          Been there. Walking through Publix, looking at the wall of bread, surprised I like the muzak for once. “But I won’t cry for yesterday, there’s an ordinary world, somehow I have to OH NOOOO”