Comment on Weezer straight up writing ads for audible.com

sirnuke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  IMO there is no way a musician name drops a product without collecting a bag. The interview with Amazon would also have cost them money to make happen.

  Weezer would need to be astonishingly naive to write the song before the agreement was reached with Amazon. Also other comments in this thread detail their past record of selling out.

  I listen to quite a lot of hip-hop and there were a couple of years about a decade ago where almost every artist had a lyric about uber.

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• thurstylark@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh, good. So it’s not paid stupidity, it’s genuine stupidity.

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  • owlboy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s interesting. There are many songs infer the years about products the song writer likes.

    I’m thinking about beers, and cars, and instruments, and various other things. Including games and movies and books.

    It’s funny that once it’s a website, that crosses the line.

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    • thurstylark@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not the website part that I find stupid. It’s the advertising for free.

      I also think that those things are stupid. Whatever company owns the product isn’t going to be happy if you take it for free, so don’t give that company something for free.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Who did an entire album where they jokingly plugged products, including on the album cover.

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    • HardlightCereal@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People are incapable of applying critical thinking to traditions. They grew up with beer and car ads, so that’s normal. Website ads are new, so they get treated with basic critical thinking and are hated, because that’s the logical way to feel about all ads.

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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also doesn’t seem like it was paid placement

  I’m not so sure on that. At the very least they paid him for the interview there, and really I think they probably just made out that they didn’t find out beforehand.

  It’s pretty ridiculous to think that a band that’s been in the business as long as Weezer has, signed to a major label like Atlantic Records, wouldn’t ask for permission to use someone else’s brand in one of their songs.

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