White Stripes sell-out, write music for Coca-Cola ad.

[MrBrau1]

http://nme.com/news/white-stripes/21410

Throw another band on the "sell-out" garbage pile.

It's no longer about the music. It's all about the $.

 

[POP-ROMANCER]

White Stripes singer Jack White has finally confirmed he's done a coke ad - and said he's done it to get a message of love out to the world.



Yeah right...

 

[Bonochick]

Jack fancies the Coke cans, what with the same color scheme and all. Pepsi didn't stand a chance.

 

[indra]

BASTARD!!!




eh. I don't really care either way.

But Jack White has always given me the creeps.

 

[intedomine]

They are crap anyway...

 

[Lancemc]

Jack White could stop and start selling Crest toothepaste in the middle of his shows, and he'd still be the most badass rocker on the planet.

 

[indra]

Jack White could stop and start selling Crest toothepaste in the middle of his shows, and he'd still be the most badass rocker on the planet.

not really sure I want a rocker with a bad ass...

 

[Dulce de Leche]

It all depends on if there's a space or not.

bad ass

badass

 

[Slapnutz]

Heh. It was only a matter of time.

White's voice is hilarious - he just doesn't know it. He sounds like Bob Goldthwait from Police Academy 2.

 

[Canadiens1131]

.

They are crap anyway...

..

 

[u2rulesmyworld]

In the end it is always about the money

 

[MrBrau1]

I like some of their tunes, and have no problem with artists getting paid.

It's not 1985 anymore.

But the indie purist who loves the band must be in hell right now.

That makes me happy.

We'll be seeing lots of White Stripes CD's in the used bin.

 

[U2DMfan]

White's voice is hilarious - he just doesn't know it. He sounds like Bob Goldthwait from Police Academy 2.

Exactly.

Overrated would be an understatement.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

I like some of their tunes, and have no problem with artists getting paid.

It's not 1985 anymore.

But the indie purist who loves the band must be in hell right now.

That makes me happy.

We'll be seeing lots of White Stripes CD's in the used bin.

You know, viewing yourself above the indie subculture is in a roundabout way no different from being within the indie subculture and viewing yourself above everyone else.

 

[Aardvark747]

They are crap anyway...

Spot on

 

[MrBrau1]

You know, viewing yourself above the indie subculture is in a roundabout way no different from being within the indie subculture and viewing yourself above everyone else.

Nope.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Yes.

 

[MrBrau1]

Nope.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

You and whose army?

 

[TheRooster]

I like some of their tunes, and have no problem with artists getting paid.

It's not 1985 anymore.

But the indie purist who loves the band must be in hell right now.

That makes me happy.

We'll be seeing lots of White Stripes CD's in the used bin.

Wait there are indie purist who still love the band? I thought they all discarded them after Fell in Love With a Girl was played on MTV and became a big hit or after Seven Nation Army? I think the "indie purist" who still likes the White Stripes is not an indie purist. This whole idea of an indie purist is much like the idea of indie. Impossible to define and probably doesn't exist in the manner many think.

 

[MrBrau1]

Wait there are indie purist who still love the band? I thought they all discarded them after Fell in Love With a Girl was played on MTV and became a big hit or after Seven Nation Army? I think the "indie purist" who still likes the White Stripes is not an indie purist. This whole idea of an indie purist is much like the idea of indie. Impossible to define and probably doesn't exist in the manner many think.

Ah! The twist!

 

[indra]

You know, viewing yourself above the indie subculture is in a roundabout way no different from being within the indie subculture and viewing yourself above everyone else.

Agreed. MrBrau1 is every bit as much the snob as the people he despises.

 

[Bonochick]

White Stripes singer Jack White has finally confirmed he's done a coke ad - and said he's done it to get a message of love out to the world.



Yeah right...

Generally, I don't have a problem with an artist "selling out". But...if you're gonna do something that's gonna get you the label of being a sellout...don't give us some hokey reason. At least when Ryan Adams did the Gap ad, he said straight up that he did it because Willie Nelson asked him to...and because of the $30,000.

 

[Catman]

Generally, I don't have a problem with an artist "selling out". But...if you're gonna do something that's gonna get you the label of being a sellout...don't give us some hokey reason. At least when Ryan Adams did the Gap ad, he said straight up that he did it because Willie Nelson asked him to...and because of the $30,000.

That's exactly the way I feel about the situation, too. I don't have a problem with it, but to the people that do, don't justify your actions with some lame reasoning... and that's cool about Ryan Adams. I didn't know that. Mucho respect for just telling it like it is

 

[MrBrau1]

Agreed. MrBrau1 is every bit as much the snob as the people he despises.

So hating music snobs, means you are a music snob?

I hate neo Nazis as well. Does that mean I am one?

 

[Dalton]

But the indie purist who loves the band must be in hell right now.

That makes me happy.

LOL

And for dessert, Brau will kick puppies.

 

[Dalton]

So hating music snobs, means you are a music snob?

I hate neo Nazis as well. Does that mean I am one?

Stop it with your logic, you Nazis bastard.

Now to the puppies.....

[I'm playing Primus as we speak]

"Too many puppies
with guns in their hands"

 

[lmjhitman]

And for dessert, Brau will kick puppies.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

So hating music snobs, means you are a music snob?

I hate neo Nazis as well. Does that mean I am one?

That's an irrelevant example to bring up.

Thinking your taste better than someone else's = music snob.

You can't apply that to neo-Nazism.

 

[Lancemc]

I think it's worth being a music snob if it means having better taste then everyone else.

Yep, definitely worth it.


(not sarcasm)