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Getting a magazine article published about how much you have been inconvenienced by the fallout from your DUI double homicide is a truly elevated form of posting through it.
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A recent photo used for the Balenciaga website included a document featuring United States v. Williams, which was "a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that a federal statute prohibiting the 'pandering' of child pornography (offering or requesting to transfer, sell, deliver, or trade the items) did not violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution." This coincides with a photoshoot for Balenciaga Objects in which children are pictured holding BDSM-themed teddy bears.  NY Post posted:The photographer who shot the controversial Balenciaga ad featuring BDSM teddy bears modeled by children has broken his silence. Kevin DuBrow has a new favorite as of 07:09 on Nov 25, 2022 |
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Nov 25, 2022 07:01
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Why are fashion brands always so loving stupid with everything they do
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Nov 25, 2022 18:41
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And why are fires always so hot?
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Nov 25, 2022 18:48
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Holy gently caress that's disgusting.
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Nov 25, 2022 19:18
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Whoever popularized the line "all publicity is good publicity" has a lot to answer for.
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Nov 25, 2022 19:33
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Well, I now know the name of that company and didn’t before. The adage stands!
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Nov 25, 2022 19:45
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ghost emoji posted:Whoever popularized the line "all publicity is good publicity" has a lot to answer for. Ironically, I have no idea who that is.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Ironically, I have no idea who that is. I'm pretty sure it was a PT Barnum line
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plainswalker75 posted:I'm pretty sure it was a PT Barnum line Thanks! 
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drat he's been gone a long time, we're gonna have to put some real work in to make him answer for it
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Nov 25, 2022 20:35
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Captain Hygiene posted:drat he's been gone a long time, we're gonna have to put some real work in to make him answer for it I think it's a Cadaver Synod situation.
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Nov 25, 2022 20:40
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Robobot posted:Well, I now know the name of that company and didn’t before. They're a long-established and famous fashion house, not some random edgy company. What I don't understand is what statement they were trying to make with the Supreme Court document.
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Nov 25, 2022 22:23
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Kevin DuBrow posted:They're a long-established and famous fashion house, not some random edgy company. What I don't understand is what statement they were trying to make with the Supreme Court document. That was part of a different campaign, for Adidas, and it's possible it was entirely random.
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Nov 25, 2022 22:25
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Phanatic posted:That was part of a different campaign, for Adidas, and it's possible it was entirely random. Why would anyone have that printed out unless they had an interest in child porn?
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Nov 25, 2022 22:39
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A friend and I were talking about ads that just completely misuse music last night. I know the GE/Sixteen Tons, Tigger Movie/Semi Charmed Life, Hershey/Melt with you, and Coke/99 Red Balloons. I'm sure there's a ton I don't know about, anyone have them handy?
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Nov 25, 2022 22:46
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I've definitely heard the first two lines of Fortunate Son by CCR used in ads glorifying America but I can't recall for what products.
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Nov 25, 2022 22:52
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Beachcomber posted:Why would anyone have that printed out unless they had an interest in child porn? Seems the answer to that may be Because they were given the models, outfits, and staging without those documents and were not given the creative control to show their disgust in any other way — knowing that if they didn’t, someone else would make the campaign without the self-reflective lens. They may also have needed the money by this point with these specific restrictions being imposed late into a process where that was to be a major paycheck for them in that period of time. Between this and Kanye’s White Lives Matter shirts, Balenciaga deserves no benefit of a doubt. The individual worker I am willing to extend that grace to, especially when this all seems to be implicit in their recent statement.
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Nov 25, 2022 22:53
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Len posted:A friend and I were talking about ads that just completely misuse music last night. I know the GE/Sixteen Tons, Tigger Movie/Semi Charmed Life, Hershey/Melt with you, and Coke/99 Red Balloons. Visa used a song about suicide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0xRtI64yKY
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Beachcomber posted:Why would anyone have that printed out unless they had an interest in child porn? A Supreme Court case? I can think of a shitload of reasons why someone would print out a Supreme Court decision. It's definitely a weird pic for an ad campaign, but it was an ad campaign for Adidas shoes. Grassy Knowles posted:Seems the answer to that may be Because they were given the models, outfits, and staging without those documents and were not given the creative control to show their disgust in any other way The ad with the printout in it was not one of the ads for the BDSM bears with the kids. It was for a different campaign altogether and there were no kids or sex toys in it. Len posted:A friend and I were talking about ads that just completely misuse music last night. I know the GE/Sixteen Tons, Tigger Movie/Semi Charmed Life, Hershey/Melt with you, and Coke/99 Red Balloons. This comes up a lot. Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" for a cruise line, "Jane Says" in a booze ad, Apple used the Pixies's "Gigantic," the list is endless. Most people don't listen to lyrics. Phanatic has a new favorite as of 23:26 on Nov 25, 2022 |
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Demna's whole thing has been ultra avant garde and courting controversy. He probably has gone too far this time.
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Nov 25, 2022 23:24
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Len posted:A friend and I were talking about ads that just completely misuse music last night. I know the GE/Sixteen Tons, Tigger Movie/Semi Charmed Life, Hershey/Melt with you, and Coke/99 Red Balloons. There's a Subaru commercial about youth hockey that uses a Pogues song and it's jarring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FedJKZuqFfg
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Phanatic posted:That was part of a different campaign, for Adidas, and it's possible it was entirely random. Phanatic posted:It's definitely a weird pic for an ad campaign, but it was an ad campaign for Adidas shoes. It's a different campaign, but it's still Balenciaga. It's their Adidas collection, but it it definitely for one of their bags and not a shoe. Kevin DuBrow posted:A recent photo used for the Balenciaga website included a document featuring United States v. Williams, which was "a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that a federal statute prohibiting the 'pandering' of child pornography (offering or requesting to transfer, sell, deliver, or trade the items) did not violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution."
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Phanatic posted:
It's so good https://youtu.be/Ps03G7WUTXY
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Len posted:A friend and I were talking about ads that just completely misuse music last night. I know the GE/Sixteen Tons, Tigger Movie/Semi Charmed Life, Hershey/Melt with you, and Coke/99 Red Balloons. I swear I heard a commercial using “We Will Become Silhouettes” by The Postal Service, either for a car or candy. May have been M&Ms and “Such Great Heights” though. The latter song is about love, but the former is clearly talking about dying in a nuclear strike.
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I remember one commercial a while back for Polaroid I think, and they played Pictures of You by The Cure which I always consider to be about someone being dead and mourning them, so it made me look twice. Great song though.
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Nov 26, 2022 01:32
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Sherwin-Williams Paint used "The Weakest Shade of Blue" by the Pernice Brothers.
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I am one of those people who have no idea what any of those songs are about. All of the songs, listed above. What is weird about Pogues in a Subaru commercial?
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Nitrox posted:I am one of those people who have no idea what any of those songs are about. All of the songs, listed above. What is weird about Pogues in a Subaru commercial? 16 tons is about being a coal miner trapped in a never-ending spiral of debt and physical breakdown. Semi Charmed Life is about being a meth addict. Melt with you is about dying in a nuclear holocaust. 99 red balloons is about dying in a nuclear holocaust. Lust for life is about being a heroin addict / Iggy Pop. Pogues were a punk band, presumable not the kind of people who would endorse sedan-driving middle-class-ism.
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Nov 26, 2022 03:38
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Nitrox posted:I am one of those people who have no idea what any of those songs are about. All of the songs, listed above. What is weird about Pogues in a Subaru commercial? It's about being damned for your sins and accepting that you won't go to heaven when you die. From the context of the band it's probably sung from the perspective of an Irishman who killed British soldiers during the Troubles. Le Faye Morgaine posted:I remember one commercial a while back for Polaroid I think, and they played Pictures of You by The Cure which I always consider to be about someone being dead and mourning them, so it made me look twice. Great song though. The lyrics are pretty explicitly about death and watching someone die. Maybe Polaroid were trying to get into the memento mori market, lol.
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Wagner’s “Bridal Chorus” from Lohengrin has been reused with little understanding of context for ages, as has the English folk song “Greensleeves”.
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Dicty Bojangles posted:Wagner’s “Bridal Chorus” from Lohengrin has been reused with little understanding of context for ages, as has the English folk song “Greensleeves”. At least the Bridal Chorus is an actual wedding march in the original. "Entry of the Gladiators" is clown music now.
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Nov 26, 2022 04:12
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Somewhat analogously, the former Romans are now Italians. Mama Mia!
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The one that always sticks out in my mind is some shoe company using Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks" to advertise their shoes. The song is about a kid plotting a school shooting
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Nov 26, 2022 04:19
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Len posted:A friend and I were talking about ads that just completely misuse music last night. I know the GE/Sixteen Tons, Tigger Movie/Semi Charmed Life, Hershey/Melt with you, and Coke/99 Red Balloons. Pepsi used Brown Sugar. Mercedes Benz used Mercedes-Benz. Jack Daniels used Jane Says, which I'm gonna give special mention for maybe not actually misuse but just way too on the nose.
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Phanatic posted:"Entry of the Gladiators" is clown music now. Finally finding out the origin of that song was one of the funnier moments related to classical music for me, I still chuckle whenever it comes to mind.
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Le Faye Morgaine posted:I remember one commercial a while back for Polaroid I think, and they played Pictures of You by The Cure which I always consider to be about someone being dead and mourning them, so it made me look twice. Great song though. I saw a really effective Australian (I think) PSA about drunk-driving that used Pictures of You. It was just relatives of folk who'd been killed by drunk drivers sitting with photos of their lost relatives. I've been living so long with my pictures of you that I almost believe that they're real.
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Phanatic posted:At least the Bridal Chorus is an actual wedding march in the original. "Entry of the Gladiators" is clown music now. … a wedding that ends much less joyously than all the couples using the music might imagine, or desire. The other one that gets me is “You Are My Sunshine” - I cannot understand how anyone would think the lyrics are positive unless they’ve never heard (or thought about) anything beyond the first half of the first verse.
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:16 tons is about being a coal miner trapped in a never-ending spiral of debt and physical breakdown. Semi Charmed Life is about being a meth addict. Melt with you is about dying in a nuclear holocaust. 99 red balloons is about dying in a nuclear holocaust. Lust for life is about being a heroin addict / Iggy Pop. Just to help us round out the list, "Gigantic" is about big black dick.
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