You're gonna see the reason why, when they're spittin' in your eye...
Perennial PB fave April March is hitting paydirt after many many years, it seems. It's nice in one respect, having fallen for Ms March long long ago after coming across 'Voodoo Doll' in Probe Records in Liverpool and following her career on the pop sidelines. In another it's quite difficult.
Now at PB we're not precious, keeping our little treasures to ourselves. We would like nothing more than seeing 'Chick Habit' at number one in the hit parade, but it's the track's inclusion in the new ad for the Renault Twingo that sits uncomfortably with us. Regular readers to this blogette will know about our annoyance at popstars, actors and the like doing adverts... how much money do they need, what price fame and all that. With lesser known acts it's more of a grey area though. Real Shocks were tempted when agencies sniffed around after 'Affection?', the reasoning being wanting to get the exposure and more importantly being too poor to turn that kind of money down. We knew one songwriter in the 90s whose song was used in a car ad and it was just silly money, footballer wages. The temptation is great when you're living in the back of a transit van and suddenly for work you've already done someone offers you enough money to buy a big house.
Obviously there may have been a lot of goings on behind the scenes - it is a Serge Gainsbourg song after all, and Elinor would only get a split songwriting credit for the English translation... but the track's inclusion in the Tarantino project 'Grindhouse' surely would have brought plenty of exposure and plaudits? Hm, maybe not, that film has bombed commercially, hasn't it?
So now it is a confused PB that has to work through a morass of bittersweet feelings over the long-awaited ascendency of one of our heroines. We're off to listen to 'Chrominance Decoder' and ruminate over the good times.
Now at PB we're not precious, keeping our little treasures to ourselves. We would like nothing more than seeing 'Chick Habit' at number one in the hit parade, but it's the track's inclusion in the new ad for the Renault Twingo that sits uncomfortably with us. Regular readers to this blogette will know about our annoyance at popstars, actors and the like doing adverts... how much money do they need, what price fame and all that. With lesser known acts it's more of a grey area though. Real Shocks were tempted when agencies sniffed around after 'Affection?', the reasoning being wanting to get the exposure and more importantly being too poor to turn that kind of money down. We knew one songwriter in the 90s whose song was used in a car ad and it was just silly money, footballer wages. The temptation is great when you're living in the back of a transit van and suddenly for work you've already done someone offers you enough money to buy a big house.
Obviously there may have been a lot of goings on behind the scenes - it is a Serge Gainsbourg song after all, and Elinor would only get a split songwriting credit for the English translation... but the track's inclusion in the Tarantino project 'Grindhouse' surely would have brought plenty of exposure and plaudits? Hm, maybe not, that film has bombed commercially, hasn't it?
So now it is a confused PB that has to work through a morass of bittersweet feelings over the long-awaited ascendency of one of our heroines. We're off to listen to 'Chrominance Decoder' and ruminate over the good times.