Everything has a price. This is the basic premise of the western world but at the same time, it’s fantasy.
It is certainly nothing but a mistake since money has only one role: to facilitate transactions and exchanges of products.
In no case, however, should it be a means of domination or enforcement.
However, for most, even understanding an idea must be accompanied by a price.
Music and its representatives have not escaped this rule.
Even Punk bands have “sold out” for a few francs, without missing the exceptions, which simply confirm the rule.
For example, the anarcho-punk collective of the Chumbawamba, who did not hesitate to refuse about half a million from a well-known sportswear company.
The company offered them this amount to use the song “Tubthumping” (also known as “I Get Knocked Down”), as part of the World Cup.
Their refusal took only… 30 seconds!
On the other hand, the Bachman – Turner Overdrive (BTO) cynically calls us “Takin ‘Care of Business” *… That is, everything is “business”.
Is it all “business”?
Ozzy Osbourne
The Prince of Darkness may have eaten his bats raw, but later softened, like butter.
Obviously, a moment of madness of our beloved Ozzy has stigmatized him and as they say, it’s better to catch your eye than the name.
But the madman does not lose his humor and any criticism against him is butter in his bread.
He also does not miss the opportunity to make any extra deliveries, along with some of his craziness.
And he is not intimidated by the fact that butter melts (for sure) in hell and why not even advertise it.
The result, as much as it affects hard-core metals, is enjoyable.
John Lydon
As for the voice (hahahahahahaha) of the punk Sex Pistols priests, the last song he played with them was No Fun by the Stooges.
This event also marked the end of the musical career of the most influential meteorite in the history of rock music.
A few decades later he probably found the fun again and decided to have fun (with) a little butter.
Of course, the result I do not know if it convinces someone to buy a rustic butter, but it definitely entertains us and the singer (hahahahahaha).
However, we find the advertiser very bold, who chose these people to advertise this product, unlike others who prefer completely plastic families, as if they came from a set of the famous doll.
Bob Dylan
What can (the biggest) folk/folk-rock singer have to do with lingerie?
Apart from the fact that he loves those who wear them, I do not understand why he should advertise them, but about appetite …
Of course, the whole world is a sequence of cause and effect, even when it comes to advertising the most well-known brand of lingerie.
So, the reason is a press conference he gave in 1965 and when asked if he would advertise a product, he answered “women’s clothes”!
His dream or joke comes true!
The brainiacs of the advertising that had undertaken the promotion of this product discovered this interview and of course, did not miss the opportunity.
The result, despite our comment, is quite impressive. And we do not mean only the model.
Alice Cooper
Hard Rocker, on stage, looks scary and wild, but also offstage he has as a “hobby” to curse and scare children…
Alice Cooper loves the sport of retirees with a good lump sum.
And of course, he has not retired, as befits a rocker of his range.
Although it is a sport that you can watch completely drunk, the same is not true for those who practice it.
So it was a good opportunity for our favorite singer to keep alcohol away.
His love for this sport was noticed by the Callaway company, which deals with the equipment of the not-so-cheap sport.
The singer probably forgot that he would not make a video clip for one of his songs and brought his python with him.
This, of course, did not bother anyone and he also participates with him in the advertisement.
If one questions his love of the sport, the book he wrote about golf, “Golf Monster: My 12 Steps to Becoming a Gold Addict,” will probably change his mind.
Neil Young
Neil Young may have sung and continues to do so, in front of tens of thousands of people, but glory has never been able to touch his humble character.
Although in January 2021 he sold 50% of the rights to his songs for 150 million, he remains a defender of the weak and the poor.
His simple lifestyle fits into a ranch he has bought, but it also gives him space for his love of train models.
He had previously worked with Richard Kughn, owner of the modeling company Lionel Trains, to build a remote control for people with disabilities.
While creating authentic train sounds for the same company.
The logical consequence of all this would be to advertise it, something that happened.
He did not stop there, however, when his favorite company had serious problems, he saved it himself.
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