And you don't think a plumber cares about their reputation as a plumber?
It was also hilarious that Michael Jackson in reality not only hated the Pepsi drink, but also he was cheating people (including children) when he was publicly seen drinking the Pepsi drink from actually empty Pepsi cans.
So what? Prince released an entire album (20Ten) through a newspaper. It wasn't sold anywhere else, only people who bought the paper got it. Whether they wanted the album or not, the same with U2s Songs Of Innocence for everybody who had iTunes. I think the album was later re-released for anyone to buy after Prince passed. Another Prince 3 CD album called Lotusflow3r was originally only sold at Target. In the 1960s & 1970s a flexdisc 45 by different artists (including The Jackson 5) was put on the back of cereal boxes.
A single newspaper costs a fraction of the price of however many cans of Pepsi you needed to buy, and also doesn't rot your teeth and make you fat.
That's interesting. I wonder if anyone on here had a different experience and drank gallons of Pepsi in order to receive the cassette hahaha
So those rock acts who do commercials for beer & liquor is ok then? "Sex, drugs, & rock n roll". At least soda doesn't cause drunk driving. There's also "beer gut". How about all of those rap songs that kids listen to that talk about drugs & liquor and full of the n-word. Some of the songs themselves are basically unofficial commercials like Pass The Courvoisier by Busta Rhymes & P Diddy. Run-DMC made a then not that popular sneaker sales get bigger with My Addias. Snoop Dogg coaches a little league football team and everybody knows he talks about smoking a lot of weed.
I did. I spend all my hard earned money (from delivering newspapers), on Pepsi to get this cassette. It was my first job too. And i still have the cassette
I don't agree with any artist who promotes an unhealthy lifestyle. But I have a high opinion of Michael Jackson especially, and I think that the Pepsi deal was a mistake for the reasons I've given.
The Beatles had drug songs though. So did solo Paul McCartney with Let Me Roll It. There's even a bootleg where John Lennon offered Stevie Wonder (who didn't do drugs) some cocaine. Drugs like LSD are pretty much what inspired 1960s psychedelic rock & stoner rock. Many blues & country songs are about getting drunk. In the late 1970s & early 1980s several R&B artists did commercials for Schlitz Malt Liquor including the Commodores when Lionel Richie was still a member.
An artist writing a song about their own drug taking doesn't mean they're endorsing drug use though. Do you think that when Michael Jackson wrote Morphine he was encouraging people to dabble in demerol use?
These are fictional films, and even small children can tell that Michael Jackson isn't actually a 1940s gangster or gang member.
You mean to tell me that Michael didn't actually turn into a car? Cause I find that hard to believe
Really? Then what about those kids who climbed on the roof of their house with a towel tied on their neck, jumped off and injured themselves when the 1st Superman movie came out in the 1970s. There's also 1990s football (tackle) movie called The Program where adults imitated a scene in it and got killed. The scene was removed from the movie and was never in the home video releases. How about all of those parents complaining about the influence of heavy metal, goth music, or gangsta rap on their children. In the 1950s white parents complained that rock n roll was causing their teenagers to become juvenile delinquents. The reason there are Parental Advisory stickers on albums are because of Tipper Gore & the PMRC. Which kind of backfired on them, because the stickers made teens want to buy the albums like an advertisement.
You sound like those people who think playing GTA turns people into hardened criminals. There's no way any kids thought shooting people was okay because of Smooth Criminal.
I didn't say people think it's real, but some do imitate the things they see or hear. Also not everybody understands the difference in fact & fiction. Charles Manson thought the songs on The Beatles White Album were about a race war, Helter Skelter & Piggies in particular. His followers killed actress Sharon Tate and some others because of that. Even if the songs really were about that (they're not), that doesn't mean Manson & his people had to act it out. If they did that, don't you think other people can't be influenced by Paul McCartney or Bob Marley singing "ganja is good" songs. There's people who had plastic surgery to look like Michael Jackson, that's not cheap.
You sound like you think kids playing GTA is less objectionable than drinking soda. That's hilarious and also crazy.
If you read my post properly you'd see that I said "people", not "kids". I don't think kids should be playing GTA and never once stated as such.
What about this then? These are real guns, not a video game, toy gun, or movie. They're not a street gang either. You can find a lot of similar family pictures on the internet, even some with US politician families. Also videos of families, including children, hunting or at gun ranges shooting. I guess you think this is better than their parents buying them soda too.
I think the remix of YANA is better than the original.
Ah, ok, thanks for the clarification.
Wow. I didn't know the J5 did this. Just went and looked it up. 11 songs!
Thanks for sharing this. Wtf, there was a 6-minute Dangerous medley?! How did I not know about this before?
This actually is the case. There's an official deal where rappers get paid extra if they mention McDonald's in their song and it gets played on the radio. I'm not joking.
I still say you're reading way too much into this. It simply doesn't matter. People don't care about it. Sometimes they even like a song because it got included in a TV advert.
I agree I love the short film for YRMW, but not that Ghosts is Thriller part 2. Ghosts short film is nothing like Thriller short film, they're 2 completely different videos
Maybe I'm being too hard on it. Surface level though, they resemble "horror". In the same way YRMW and Smooth Criminal to some resemble "Nightclub".
Just like Ghosts is not Thriller part 2, YRMW is not Smooth Criminal part 2
That's how I feel.
