i wonder who will be next to sell me things
It wouldn't have been funny if they hadn't been so "anti-establishment". I don't really want to go into this preaching about integrity and "selling out" but I will say advertising is certainly a funny thing. I've got two recent examples.
Did you think it was weird seeing John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, on Judy Judy? Well he's done an advert for Country Life butter now. I've seen a few things online about this mentioning how this is his first appearance in adverts. I guess doing a cover of Route 66 for a Mountain Dew ad in the 90s doesn't count as an appearance.
On to the Violent Femmes, whose careers peaked with their first album. The internet says there's a Wendy's advert using Blister in the Sun that caused sufficient tension between band mates as to create a lawsuit. Bassist gets butthurt and sues vocalist over money, credit "and also accuses Gano of trashing the band's reputation by allowing its signature hit, "Blister in the Sun," to be used in a Wendy's commercial." Yet somehow their appearance on Sabrina the Teenage Witch didn't damage the band's reputation? Anyway, there is now a Foster's beer advert airing here that not only uses Blister in the Sun but even has changed lyrics.
When I'm walkin' I strut my stuff, man I'm so strung 'hung' out
I'm high as 'I fly like' a kite I just might stop to check you out
Funny that drugs can't be alluded to in a beer commercial.
Did you think it was weird seeing John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, on Judy Judy? Well he's done an advert for Country Life butter now. I've seen a few things online about this mentioning how this is his first appearance in adverts. I guess doing a cover of Route 66 for a Mountain Dew ad in the 90s doesn't count as an appearance.
Click to viewOn to the Violent Femmes, whose careers peaked with their first album. The internet says there's a Wendy's advert using Blister in the Sun that caused sufficient tension between band mates as to create a lawsuit. Bassist gets butthurt and sues vocalist over money, credit "and also accuses Gano of trashing the band's reputation by allowing its signature hit, "Blister in the Sun," to be used in a Wendy's commercial." Yet somehow their appearance on Sabrina the Teenage Witch didn't damage the band's reputation? Anyway, there is now a Foster's beer advert airing here that not only uses Blister in the Sun but even has changed lyrics.
When I'm walkin' I strut my stuff, man I'm so strung 'hung' out
I'm high as 'I fly like' a kite I just might stop to check you out
Funny that drugs can't be alluded to in a beer commercial.