David Bowie, selling a CRUISE LINE?

[Archae]

Yup, "Celebrity Cruise" line, used a David Bowie song for it's ad on the Travel Channel.

"Fame." :wow:

[mitchum]

1. He's a hack who will sell anything

a very talented one, but still a hack

[DainBramaged]

4. Hmmm, maybe he no longer owns the rights to the song?

The man is how old? He possibly sold a song for use by a cruise line that appeals to people his age who may remember his songs with joy and he's a hack??

I call bullshit. Dick Cheney is a hack, David Bowie is a legend. So fucking what if he or someone else sold the rights to his song.

[Kutjara]

7. I think it was Bowie who did some weird financial deal a few years back...

...where he bundled his whole back catalog up and leased it to some financial company in exchange for a shedload of cash. I'm guessing it's the financial company that's shilling his songs around the place.

[mitchum]

9. I said that he was a TALENTED hack...

in fact, I actually think that his musical chops are vastly underrated while his "vision and genius" are vastly overrated.
Bowie once said, "It's not important who does something first; it's important who does something second" Hmmm....what becomes a legend most?

[unpossibles]

11. actually, that quote is pretty accurate

look at someone like Ford, who often mistakenly gets credit for the assembly line and the automobile, and invented neither. History is full of other examples, and everyone's work has antecedents.

[mark414]

2. to be fair, maybe he doesn't own the rights to the song

a la the Beatles' "Revolution" being used in a Nike commercial

most artists on major labels DON'T have control over the rights to their music

[Honeycombe8]

3. Why not? He's not a "god." He's a commercial artist who sells his work for a living...

That's a GOOD thing.

He's also acted in a few movies and done very well at that. (Most recently in The Prestige.)

Mick Jagger sold his "Start Me Up" song to Microsoft.

Someone recently asked the renowned actress Vanessa Redgrave why she was still acting so much, why she didn't retire....She answered that, besides liking her work, she has a mortgage to pay!

I imagine Cruise Lines paid a hefty sum for the use of that song.

[mitchum]

10. He and Michael Caine were the only good things about "The Prestige"

The funny thing is that before sitting down to watch it, my wife and I were both sarcastically commenting, "Well, you know this will be a good movie. Would Bowie or Caine ever be in a bad movie?" Sncker snicker :)

[Honeycombe8]

12. I thought it was a pretty good movie. The eye candy alone (Bale & Jackman)...

was worth the price of admission. Plus I thought the plot was convoluted enough to be interesting. Add Caine and Bowie to the mix, and you've got a pretty good movie. Not great, but good. Bowie was excellent, as usual. Took me a minute to recognize him.

[CC]

5. Might be a tad better for a cruiseline than

Iggy Pop's Lust for Life. Someone had no clue when they chose it.:rofl:

[mitchum]

8. C'mon...taking a cruise and kicking heroin are identical...

aren't they? :)

[regnaD kciN]

6. Hasn't Royal Carribean been using an Iggy Pop song for years now...?

:shrug:

(I see CC beat me to it.)

[Bluebear]

13. *****David Bowie Donates $10K to Jena 6 Defense*****

Rock icon donate $10,000 to the defendent's legal fund.
by IGN Music

US, September 18, 2007 - The high profile Jena 6 case taking place in Jena, Louisiana, just got a little hotter.

Musical icon David Bowie has reportedly donated $10,000 to the Jena 6 Legal Defense Fund. The case, involves the prosecution of Mychal Bell, 17, Robert Bailey Jr., Theo Shaw, Carwin Jones, Bryant Purvis, and an unnamed minor for their role in an altercation with a classmate following a series of racial incidents in the town of 3,000 after three nooses were hung in a tree at the local high school.

"There is clearly a separate and unequal judicial process going on in the town of Jena," Bowie said. "A donation to the Jena 6 Legal Defense Fund is my small gesture indicating my belief that a wrongful charge and sentence should be prevented."

Presently, the NAACP, in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Southern University Law Center, has provided some additional legal support and resources to the defendants' attorneys.

"We are gratified that rock star David Bowie was moved to donate to the NAACP's Jena campaign," said NAACP National Board of Directors Chairman Julian Bond. "Mr. Bowie shares our outrage. We hope others will join him."

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Still a "hack"? :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Equating one's musicianship with one's politics is illogical and specious.

And it pisses me off.

[Bluebear]

15. I'm crushed, never to recover.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Well, I don't think you need to take it that badly!

:hi:

[Bluebear]

18. OK

All better then :)

[Orrex]

21. He's a hack for selling out to opponents of disgustingly racist abuse of power

Phooey!


Seriously--I wasn't aware his donation. That's very cool.


Plus, his wife is a shape-shifter.

[SteppingRazor]

16. What's wrong with that?

It's not as if David Bowie was some sort of punk rocker who railed against selling out. If anything, he was always a commodity.

And what the hell is this "selling out" thing anyway? The idea's dated. Up-and-coming bands today would give their left nut to have a song in a Volkswagen commercial -- it's one of the surest ways to get one's music heard by the masses and get paid doing it. Why the hell wouldn't you do it?

[Orsino]

19. Well, it gets the corporate world's message heard by the masses, anyway.

I'm sure I'd be tempted, too. I'd hope at least to be careful of which corporations I helped to enrich.

[no name no slogan]

20. Why not? Iggy hawks cruises for Carnival

Because of their commercials I cannot stand the song "Lust for Life" anymore.

And if I hear "I Melt With You" in another fast food commercial involving cheese or butter substitute, somebody's gonna get hit.

[leftofthedial]

22. he's one hell of a shuffleboard player

[myrna minx]

23. Miriam, what are we going to do?!