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yeh but think big ambient... a real mint could be made... fucking horrible

anyone think it started to go wrong from the ( ) album.. onwards.... anyone...? *puts hand up*

this is an article from tiny mix tapes: McDonald's Pays Rappers to Mention the Bic Mac in Songs; Hooray for Co-Optation and Fast-Food Imperialism In the latest of corporate power wielding its mighty fists of evil, McDonald's is now offering to pay rappers between $1-$5 each time a song featuring a plug for the Big Mac is played on the radio. By this summer, Mickey D's hopes to have several songs on the air, in an attempt to apparently target both "urban" and youth markets. But the fast food giant doesn't have to pay up front, only by number of radio plays, giving them the opportunity to screen out any possible poor PR reps. Everywhere I've read seems to think this means they might not accept songs from heavier songwriters. God, I wish I was reading this in The Onion right now. Fuckin' A. What next from the mega-chain whose name is synonymous with Globalization and American hegemony? Equally repugnant is that McDonald's will have final say over the content of each song that mentions the Big Mac. However, Tony Rome, CEO of Maven Strategies (the marketing firm McDonald's hired), said that McDonald's will consider allowing artists to think of their own ways to incorporate the nasty sandwich into the song. Oh wow. So nice of them. "The main thing is to allow the artists to do what they do best," Rome told Advertising Age, the magazine which recently broke this story. "We're letting them creatively bring to life the product in their song." Director of brand entertainment strategy at McD's added: "The stars of hip-hop have become brands... This partnership reflects our appreciation and respect for the most dominant youth culture in the world." Okay, okay, I know that journalism is supposed to be about the news, rather than about opinion, but let me break down some of the arguments floating around. According to Advertising Age: "If 50 Cent says so, they're gonna buy so many Big Macs," predicted Kai Davis, 27, a customer service rep and Jay-Z fan from the Bronx. "[Rappers] have a big influence." The magazine added a quote from 16-year-old Benji Lusena, "Anything they say, people are going to do." So clearly, there's a list of complaints being formed, so let me add mine. McDonald's is offering hip-hop the opportunity to commercialize itself into becoming, well, a commercial. Hip-hop is being bought and sold as if it were always just a quaint commodity, as if the socio-political dimension that it was built upon didn't mean a thing; hip-hop as a dynamic social process is being reduced to a vehicle to sell unhealthy burgers. Although the notion of co-optation in music isn't new, it's certainly becoming more extreme. Like product placements in movies, it works on a more subconscious level to the extent that we can't really change the dial when the commercials come on. They're always going to be flooding us. But, this advertising campaign isn't unprecedented. Last year, the same marketing firm, Maven Strategies, got Seagram's gin mentioned in five raps by offering a pretty penny. Not to mention Run DMC's "My Adidas" hit in 1986 or countless others that have directly or indirectly influenced sales by mentioning a product. This move is just one link further in a chain of commercialization. And it's such a disgusting one.

aww gees you make videos too, awesome. im specialising in time based art in dundee... bingo

aww come on play the game... everyone knows second names are what solo artist are listed by. sheeps i would have done mine differently... cak

a - azure ray b - blood brothers c - cat power d - deerhoof e - entrance f - fog g - ghost h - homeland i - isis j - (dont really have any actually, damn cant cover the whole alphabet...think'll give up.) k - kings of convenience l - liars m - the microphones n - joanna newsom o - old man gloom p - phoenix q - q and not u r - hmm... the robot ate me (red house painters....hard to decide i guess both worth a mention) s - hmm.. a lot here too... snoozer (slint) t - tilly and the wall u - unicorns or unwound v - damn i suck... not really one for v... w - wilco x - xiu xiu y - yeah yeah yeahs z - hmm not really one for z either but i'll put done the zephyrs and zero zero, but not really. well that was great fun

i like noise bits, gybe stuff is awfully good but i just prefer mt zions sound.... old man gloom 'noise bits' are good too... christmas is a damn good album think i might look into buying some more of the old mans albums. who doesnt love old men.

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aww princess... its good you should see it. oh ok (be cool see-er) still think it looks a bit tard, i guess i'll give it a go when its out on david

ha might come along too... with long jon. good old long jon tell me... i've seen xcerts and t13 before but the others... are they actually good? i mean as good as the other two... or would you call them 'up and coming'

yeh not very much from the stuff i've heard... i kind of prefer silver mt zion i have to say. yeh so im excited with no cash, its never a good feeling

metalheads arn't that bad... ned punks are worse... so god damn scary.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381429/board/threads/ i saw somersault recently i thought it was real cool, nicely shot, very poetic and just generally really nice story some films buffs ripped it to shredds... not to mention lantana (probably the only two aus films i can think of right now) can you really get to a stage where you've studied something so much that you have this really accute film taste? i mean they had a go at 'usual suspects'... its a popular film, and everything... i didnt thnk it was all that bad.. poor film school people ps i thought robots was alright.. anyone else?

wheres kane? kane was always fun. not the coolest of characters but he was looked up to, when i was a small geek in school

yeh i was disapointed about the blackadder lot not getting in... so many good lines.

swet... a good album eh... i guess i better look into this matter further

well. i think the bears pretty damn funny... but yeh apart from that it is a bit guff.

yeh i totally agree that sketch was far better... theres the one where andy kicks a ball into a tree or something like that its good.

yeh my dad did it with my grandads jazz 78's then just did some simple audio editing to get rid of some rubbish tingly sounds, also did my slowdive promo as well (boast)

guess its not my thing, but your drummers rhythmn isnt....good. the beat suits the track its just.. not well done.

yeh i heard it twasnt too bad... heard a couple of tracks. boom

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