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February 04, 2007
The shillest - everyone's a critic
Bob Dylan isn't the only musician to appear in the ads that license his songs (meta note, WTF!). Straight out of A-town (or Hotlanta, if you're nasty), comes a Chevy Impala SS ad with T.I.
The ad, brimming with rims, scantily clad women, and stuntin, would not look out of place on 106th & Park.
And for good reason. Not only does T.I. shill for Chevy, he lets them cut the ad from his music video for Top Back (remix).
Here's the funny thing! This doubly-promotorific video (for T.I.'s album and for the Impala) was removed from YouTube for copyright violations. This intellectual property makes no sense. Tell the people!
But, it's at Bebo (for now, at least). Congratulations Bebo for not selling to Google for $1.6 billion.
Judging from this forum, some people are a) culturally prejudiced and b) don't understand the concept of niche marketing.
Posted by Keith O'Brien at February 4, 2007 09:49 AM
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