OMG! Dylan is advertising for Chrysler!

[icymist]

The world is ending!

[Warren Stupidity]

1. that was totally odd.

[ellie]

2. That was great!

The was a shot of Baker's, the jazz club. Now I am homesick.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. The number of people who care is dwarfed many times over by the number of people

Who have no idea who you're talking about.

[icymist]

6. LOL!

Apologies people! Bob Dylan, icon of the hippie movement is advertising for automobiles, selling them! Being an old hippie who yelled about Paul McCartney 'selling out', well when it's Dylan, it's the end of the world!

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Yep.

I remember when Jerry did an ad for levis. Oh no!

Still, we're old.

[icymist]

13. LOL!

[Warren DeMontague]

19. "Red Hot Chili Peppers added to halftime show, to appeal to older viewers"

Chew on that for a bit.

[icymist]

20. Didn't see the halftime show.

I have to work tonight so I was getting ready. Who are the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Are they a Mexican group? LOL, just kidding people.

[elleng]

27. HAHAHAHAHA!

My DAUGHTERS, 'older!'

[cui bono]

34. Do you remember seeing a diaper ad with Bowie's song "Changes"?

It had to be pulled because he never agreed to let them use it iirc.

Just tried to find something about it and this is all I came up with:

TV has not always given respect to those performers for their earlier work. Thomson tells a story of David Bowie sitting in a hotel room in the U.S. and hearing his famous song, “Changes” transformed into a diaper-commercial jingle.

http://www.current.org/1995/05/rock-n-roll-pilgrimage/

[Warren DeMontague]

35. Turn, and face the strange.

Yuk.

[Matariki]

25. Wait. Bob Dylan isn't dead?

Are you sure?

[spanone]

4. kill me

[ForgoTheConsequence]

5. He did a Cadillac commercial a few years ago.

He still looks good.

[livetohike]

7. Sell out! LOL n/t

[polichick]

8. He did Victoria's Secret years ago.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. 2004.

So it's not just Dylan who is old- even Dylan selling out is old, now.

[fishwax]

32. Tina Fey's take, from Weekend Update back in the day

"I think I finally figured out the message of the new Victoria’s Secret commercial. Buy our lingerie, or Bob Dylan will kill this model."

[polichick]

43. Ha! He does look pissed off.

[pangaia]

9. I know.

What is that about...

Oh Bob.. how could you....

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. Cool commercial...

"So let Germany brew your beer... let Switzerland make your watch... let Asia assemble your phone. WE, will build your car."

[MagickMuffin]

24. Let Fort Worth, Texas make and assemble your phone

Yep, Fort Worth is the first cell phone manufacturing plant in the US!

[cherokeeprogressive]

37. What are the chances my Galaxy SIII was made there?

Ooopsie. "Assembled".

[MagickMuffin]

41. Zero chances

We make/assemble the Moto X.

Perhaps you should reconsider the Galaxy and buy the Moto X.

Fort Worth could use the extra work.

[sl8]

12. "When you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas ..."

...
When you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas
Whoever he was
The man ain't got no culture
But it's alright, ma
Everybody must get stoned
...
P. Simon

[William Seger]

15. Didn't care for the "let Germany brew your beer" part

Don't fall for the marketing myth; German beer is funky. Support your local microbrewery.

[icymist]

28. You got that right!

[liberal N proud]

17. Last year it was Eastwood

This is cool!

[Jesus Malverde]

18. Isn't Chrysler owned by Italians......nt

[dembotoz]

21. can not say it makes me want to buy a chrysler

[TexasProgresive]

22. It began ending when

James Brown's "I Feel Good! I Knew that I Would!" was a laxative ad.

[lindysalsagal]

23. I thought it was a strong ad.

Dont want him singing anymore.

[MagickMuffin]

26. As I said up thread: Let Fort Worth, Texas Make And Assemble Your Phones

Awesome support our Cities first!

[madrchsod]

31. i have one of those phones...it`s a great phone

[MagickMuffin]

42. I Too Hope To Own One Soon

They look awesome!

[ChiciB1]

29. YIKES!

And to think what the younger generation missed! Our Generation is one that I'm so glad I was a part of!

I remember going to so many LIVE Concerts and having a blast, even while we has so much upheaval going on. Looking back, I think so many forget that we DID fight for our rights and there was so much more going on than Sec, Drugs & Rock 'n Roll! Even though that part of it was all inclusive for me.

To think that back then anyone over 30 was NOT to be trusted! Dylan was really never into the political activism like Baez, Lennon and so many others were. But he sure wrote loads of songs that fueled us on.

[cherokeeprogressive]

39. There was a time when "The Left" distrusted everything about government and authoritarianism.

They wrote books about it. They wrote songs about it. They made MOVIES about it.

Zoom to today...

Artists who write books, record music, and film movies can't wait to jump on the wagon pulled by "The Man".

I decided to vote for Democrats based on what I saw going on around me in the 60s and early 70s. Forget that Lyndon Johnson lied the nation into a war with his Gulf of Tonkin speech... it was STILL a choice of Democrat or Republican.

Somewhere in my 52 years the world has flipped upside down, turned inside out, and backwards.

Back in the day, those who made "art", no matter which form it may have come in, avoided government at all costs, and sometimes it cost them plenty.

Today? The BEST thing an "artist" can do is make a commercial for some government program or another, campaign for one politician or another, or... be still my heart... BE INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE for a private performance.

We applaud that.

This is Bob Dylan, inspiration for at LEAST one generation of musicians, and possibly writers and filmmakers, taking something for himself. Finally. I have never in my life bought a Chrysler product. Since they've been sold to investors from another country, I probably never will.

I'm just glad that the guy who recorded "Watchin' the River Flow", which was actually a signal he was more a musician than a political activist, is getting a little somp'm somp'm for himself after all these years.

[madrchsod]

30. so did iggy pop..course he`s from detroit

[mulsh]

33. he did one for cadillac a couple of years ago.

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[Brickbat]

36. Rock fucking on. It was awesome.

[Rex]

38. It is sad when the social buzz around the Super Bowl ads seems far greater than

the game played - ten times over. One of the Worst ever played. Bob probably will forget.

[progressoid]

40. "Money doesn't talk, it swears." -- Bob Dylan