How would you feel about a PJ song used for endorsing a product?

Glorified_G
Glorified_G Posts: 20
edited January 2009 in The Porch
I am teaching a class on the current state of music/rock at the university I work and would love your feedback (although I think I know what the overwhelming feeling will be).

How would you feel if Pearl Jam decided to allow a song to be used to endorse a product?

A: Never, no way . . . it is selling out!!!

B: Depends on the product? (I.e U2's Vertigo to help launch the IPod)

C: It's their music they can do whatever the hell they want with it and it will not change my opinion of the band.

I am sure this has been discussed at length in the past, so sorry for rehashing an old subject. Thanks!
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  • Kilgore_Trout
    Kilgore_Trout Posts: 7,334
    i though wilco's VW commercials were decent... more tasteful than most... i got sick of the songs a bit faster though... in PJ's case i'd lean closer to NO WAY! but i guess i would reconsider based on the product and how well done it is... something eco-friendly could work

    or i could see them doing something for SHAMWOW... but those sell themselves... they dont need PJ
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  • CJMST3K
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    Every time I hear "Happy Jack" I want to buy a Hummer.

    While I think that if it's a decent product that it's a great opportunity for a smaller band, a bigger band like PJ who has spoken out SO many times against it, it would be a 100% sell out move.

    I do see Rockband songs as different (as I think most of us would) because the song is the product.




    When I saw the verizon screens this past tour, I thought that was a bit odd. I think that PJ should mention what that sponsorship offset. Did it make the ticket prices cheaper? Who made money on that one?

    ...wish I could find the youtube of vedder chastising Jewel for her having a song used by a razor company, Intuition razor.
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    I wouldn't make a difference to me.
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  • jamie uk
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    I'd love to hear Even Flow on a Guinness advert or something.
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  • alphawolf
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    id be horrified
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  • JaneNY
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    Let's just say 1) I hope they don't 2) I doubt they'd ever do it, and 3) its their choice.
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  • justam
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    It'd be their decision, but it would kill the song for everyone. For example, when the Who played their song at their award show recently, all I heard was the opening for that TV show. This was a song I knew for years before, but it was KILLED as a song once it was played every week as a theme for a TV show.

    They can sell whatever they want, but that's what'll happen to the piece of music. So, hopefully, whatever they sell will be something they are already tired of.
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  • youngster
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    No way! Besides, the band wouldn't go for anything like that. A company needs the band and label's permission to do that and my guess is that they would never go for it. On the other hand, something more up their alley, last year Eddie Vedder's "Rise" off ITW soundtrack was used in a commercial about cancer awareness. That's about all you'll see for advertising.
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    jamie uk wrote:
    I'd love to hear Even Flow on a Guinness advert or something.

    I agree. I mix PJ and Guinness all the time!
  • Vedder_Girl77
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    If I recall correctly...on one of the 2003 Riot Act Tour Bootlegs...Eddie was saying (joking I'm sure) that the band turned down 5 million dollars from Viagra and Viagra wanted to use the song "Alive" in a commercial...He said something to the effect that they didn't want a little cock singing "I'm still alive"...funny but I'm sure this was a joke! Does anyone else remember hearing this?? I can't remember which concert this was?
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  • lucylespian
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    At this point, until they bring out a tab box set, I consider every one of the current rash of consumer products they are pumping out to be a suckful betrayal of people who are really about the music.
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  • openedforthesun
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    Um... Corduroy is in that PSA with Harrison Ford.
  • PJRock75
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    My answer is A and I hope it never happens....I would like to think Ed would just ask himself, "What would Ian MacKaye do?"
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  • washedinblack91
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    if they liked a product or a company and endorsed the company and would like to be a part of it or help it in some way and that's how they do it, more power to them. i don't get the whole prejudice against it. i mean if they used "black" for a toner commercial, then yeah id be pretty pissed. but if they used it in a way that's meaningful to them (ie: using corduroy in that commercial) then i say let them do what they want.

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  • wolfbear
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    If it's something they believe in I'd have no trouble whatsoever. :)
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  • EchosNobodyHears
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    the only part i would mind would be the fact that the song would get old real fast and become associated with the product forever. the song like a rock and those car commercials. you cant even listen to that song without wanting to change it cuz youve herd it a million times on the commercials.
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  • pdalowsky
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    I couldnt give a flying fuck, if PJ can make a few bob out of the deal then fair play to them....

    I hate all this 'they are selling out bullshit', this is their job, and they need to make cash, good luck to them
  • sagapo1
    sagapo1 Posts: 186
    It's hard to say.
    The Nissan commercials always have The Who, or a great band playing -- as the car is flying through cones on some crash course, the visual is always cool -- and the music is great. I always think to myself "whoever made that commercial has a great taste in music."
    But I hate The Who being overused for TV shows. Not good.
    I once saw a surfing documentary, this guy was cruising down this wave and they were playing "Go", that was perfect.
    I guess my answer would be...The band should be very selective. Minimal use of their music for any area other than pure, personal, listening pleasure.
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  • Boston Lou
    Boston Lou Posts: 280
    i feel like the band would be The Who part 2


    seriously... anyone else find it odd that Sean Penn talked about not selling out at the VH1 thing

    yet Baba is the theme song for 32 shows and 44 movies?
  • 3crookedhearts
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    I would've loved them to have used "Bushleager" in the "W" trailers. Actually kind of an underrated film. I guess I'd group film stuff in the same way I'd group the rock band stuff, though.
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