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What's the best song to be ruined by an advertisement?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!, May 28, 2007.

  1. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    If it's a good song, it can't be ruined by a commercial.
     
  2. I assume your referring to the "hypnotizing chickens" portion of the song.
     
  3. kokane_muthashed

    kokane_muthashed Active Member

    Nirvana's "Breed" playing on the commercial for MLB 2K7 video game. Song is also on the game.

    Cobain's headless body is spinning in his grave.
     
  4. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    You saw, I assume, the apparently unauthorized use of Cobain's image to sell shoes:

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    Ad copy says:
    Doc Martens
    Forever
     
  5. kokane_muthashed

    kokane_muthashed Active Member

    OH. MY. GOD.

    Tell me that's a joke.
     
  6. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    Nope. It was for-real:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20070524/en_industry_eo/99786882_bf3947b8_b9ec_a84572eec703
     
  7. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    That's freaking awful.
     
  8. sportschick

    sportschick Active Member

    Somebody kill Courtney now before uses her dead husband to further destroy his legacy.
     
  9. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    I fear that with that ad, it might already be gone. Wow. Just wow.
     
  10. Probably the latter.
     
  11. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    I can't believe Doc Martens would just do that without clearing it somehow.
     
  12. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    It may simply not have occured to the Doc Martens people that dead celebrity images are carefully administered by their estates.

    I'm stunned, though, to note that Cobain was ahead of Elvis as the best-earning dead celebrity in the 2006 Forbes list:

    http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/23/tech-media_06deadcelebs_cx_pk_top-earning-dead-celebrities_land.html

    It appears that number ($50M) may have been goosed, however, by a one-time sale of 25% of his song rights.

    I dig Einstein ($20M) being fifth on the list ahead of Andy Warhol and Dr. Seuss.
     
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