Showing posts with label commercials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commercials. Show all posts

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Elvis' Imaginary Wonder Jam

A seamless imagination of what it would be like to see Elvis jam with some of the greatest musicians of the last 40 years.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

St. Ides Malt Liquor Ads

In the early '90s, St. Ides, and a number of other malt liquor companies began to explicitly target young black males in their advertising campaigns. While they received a lot of criticism for these ads (and rightly so) there is something fascinating about watching Biggie rap about how "I used to be a hustler/ Now I'm a 22 brew guzzler" or seeing Method Man & Redman tell us that "It's where the truth is." On the other hand, Chuck D, of Public Enemy, has been quite outspoken against malt liquor and even filed a $5 million law suit against St. Ides for using an unauthorized sample of his voice in one of their ads. (Full Story)



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