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LiteraturePaid placement for brands in pop lyrics
An company that specializes in sneakily placing product-names in pop-song lyrics (!!) screwed up and accidentally approached an anti-advertising activist for money to include his nonexistent "product" in a pop song -- the activist strung them along and got tons of poop: In the e-mail, Kluger (who has represented Mariah Carey, New Kids on the Blog, Ne-Yo, Fall Out Boy, Method Man, Lady GaGa and Ludacris) explained via e-mail that for the right price, Double Happiness Jeans could find its way into the lyrics in an upcoming Pussycat Dolls song. Crouse posted the e-mail on his blog at the Anti-Advertising Agency, an art project of sorts that's basically the philosophical mirror image of a traditional ad agency. The thing is, Double Happiness Jeans is not your everyday brand -- it's a virtual sweatshop organized by EyeBeam for a display at the Sundance Festival, which involves paying Second Life citizens 90 cents an hour to make real, customized jeans designed in the virtual factory. Crouse and Steve Lambert, his partner at the Anti-Advertising Agency, are probably the last people on earth who Kluger would want to receive this e-mail. Both men spend a fair amount of their time questioning, undermining and criticizing the pervasiveness of materialism and advertising in our culture. "It was hilarious," Lambert told us via telephone, "that he wanted to put Jeff's fake Second Life sweatshop company in a pop song. It's this desperation that advertising has come to because you can't just tell people about your product anymore, because nobody cares. Advertisers have created this situation where they've made themselves obsolete. There's too much advertising out there, so they try to find new ways to cut through the clutter that they've created. And this is one of those ways." Products Placed: How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics...
Published: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:54:36 GMT - Source: Boingboing.Net - Read the articleEntertainmentCinema release for Mariah movie
US pop star Mariah Carey's latest film is set to be released in December.
Published: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:42:23 GMT - Source: News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Read the articleEntertainmentLil' Wayne eyes US chart record
The rapper is set to claim Mariah Carey's US record of having the year's biggest first-week album sales.
Published: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:07:06 GMT - Source: News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Read the article
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