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Jack sells pop
I like that title.
Anyway my head has been up my a*se and i wasn't aware Jack White is doing a Coke ad for a mill. It is a very obvious reaction but I am very dissapointed in this. Anyone have anything to add to this? Maybe you could enlighten me and tell me how i am wrong (please no preachy big bad world responses. Yawn).
Seriously though, what a c*ck
Coca Cola
is a fine drink.
I see no reason not to do it...
usual
the usual reasons, you don't like to see 'artists' being bought, artistic integirty, making more money for some of the planets richest people, greed, and as Bill Hicks would say he's not a fckng salesman, he's a musician.
It seems
different to me.
It's not like he is whoring himself out to every company.
If a musician wrote a song for a charity because it inspired them, no-one would say anything.
Jack White happens to be inspired by coca cola...
I'm with you
I have no real issue with it. So he's selling Coca-Cola? So what. Just because Coke is seen as some sort of 'big bad wolf' in the advertising world. Would it bother you if it were Volvo, or Tampax, or Kingsmill?
Meh.
If someone offered me one million to advertise Coca Cola
I'd probably say yes.
you're comparing someone
doing a charity record and someone doing a song for a multinational business concern with questionable business practises?
after all jack white
got his red and white colour scheme from coca cola, so i agree with fullerov.
have you seen it?
it's not very good.
still, i don't think his intentions should be doubted.
oh well.
I am very surprised
I thought everyone would have been of similar mind to myself. I don't like seeing artists, sports people or other celebs selling sht in adverts of any sort. Kingsmill, Tampax or whatever it's about money, selling and greed.
The whole 'if someone offered me a million' point is questionable, because you're comparing the average guy in the street who could do with a little financial aid with Jack White the Rock Star who has more money than he could ever use in a couple of lifetimes.
As for the inspiration of Coke, again i'm not too convinced when it comes with a million dollar cheque. I read Devandra Banhart talk about how he loves cheese and it's the centre of the universe etc and that's why he allowed his song to go on a cheese ad.
Are you aware of Jack White's bank balance?
How do you know he couldn't do with a million dollars?
well, as a rough guess
i imagine he isn't doing TOO badly as elephant is one of the most profitable albums ever made..
Russ Abbott recently declared bankruptcy
success isn't a guarantee of wealth.
Russ Abbott hasn't done anything of worth in years
besides, i wasn't talking about success in the terms of number of units sold - the album cost bugger all to record, and that's what made it so profitable.
anyway, we're arguing around the point. i don't really care what jack white does, or any "artist" for that matter, as long as they're open to the fact that they're shilling themselves for cash. gotta do what you gotta do, right?
I was joking about Russ Abbott
he hardly had the same earning potential as Jack White.
Also, it wasn't that long ago that Jack White released his third album, with the first two probably making him very little money at all. I don't blame him for taking advantage of a very lucrative offer.
no, neither do i.
it's just crap like this I find hard to stomach:
http://www.nme.com/news/white-stripes/22812
He said at the time: "I've been offered the opportunity to write a song in a way which interests me as a songwriter. I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
"But to be asked to write something particular along one theme of love in a worldwide form that I'm not really used to appealed to me. I've written a song and I wrote it really quickly and it's an interesting commercial that's been made. I was inspired by the commercial."
as i said, i don't really appreciate spin to make it look like an artistic concern.
That is a fucking horrific song
for a horrific advert!
Granted, i am making assumptions
I wouldn't imagine he would be struggling. I also know musicians often struggle and see little of the record sales. In this instance however i think it is a conservative guess to say that Jack White is a multi millionaire.
Yep, but he probably lives a multi-millionaire lifestyle
and as a consequence needs further millions to continue this lifestyle. Coca Cola offered him one and he took it. I couldn't care less.
I agree
Couldn't care less.
I tire of the stereotypical 'Sell out!' cries when someone sells their money to an advert.
Do people who say this never buy anthing made by a company that makes more than 50p a year? Never go to Asda? Never, EVER drink Coke or related products? Really?
It's not a priority to me. If he wants to sell a song, or even write a new one, for a company like Coke, then so be it. Just because he's famous and 'cool', he doesn't have to become some kind of martyr to a strange cause.
my opinion is that it's more
to do with their attitude towards it. what i don't really like is people doing it and then trying to sell it as some kind of "artistic statement" or put spin on it.
if you're doing something for the cash, by all means do it, but don't try and talk it up otherwise, you know?
Yes
Yes I can see the ironic hypocrisy of these claims. I am not perfect.
However i don't agree with the martyr to a strange cause comment. I don't see what's strange about not wanting to make your music the puppet for some of the planets richest people. It is evident that coke have seen that kids think Jack is cool then thought how much will it cost to get this cool guy to sing about coke and get the kids guzzling it down. Business is about profit and music for me is eh .... not (if you want further irony, i am a marketing graduate so figure that the fck out).
I hesitated to start this thread in case people saw it as a lazy and childish attemp at socialism. Sorry.
argh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWoLu_Hvbbw
Man
Man is my finger not on the pulse. Does anyone have a similar point of view as me???