# Here is proof that the music industry has no fucking soul
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 29, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433 "2002-10-29T19:10:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/1 "2002-10-29T19:10:32Z")
According to Advertising Age magazine, Island records is seriously considering selling product placements in song lyrics. In other words, cough up the cash and Sting will find a way to work the word “Volvo” into a rainforest tune. Bob Marley must be spinning like a top.
Here is a link to the article (a little late. It’s from September, but I just found it today. Apologies if this has been posted before.)
[http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=35982](http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=35982)
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/2 "2002-10-29T19:14:51Z")
And they wonder why nobody has sympathy for the record companies…
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/3 "2002-10-29T19:17:12Z")
:smack:
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### Author:  [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/4 "2002-10-29T19:19:54Z")
oh god. Where have the all the good, meaningful bands gone? TALK TALK people…TALK TALK
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### Author:  [@The\_Tim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tim)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/5 "2002-10-29T19:26:45Z")
I’d like to believe lots of artists would rather violate contract or just make pure ad jingles out of spite to show record companies they aren’t willing to sell space in their lyrics.
However I have no doubt labels can’t just clone up some more pop-queens, rap-stars and fake rockers who are willing to do this shit.
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### Author:  [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/6 "2002-10-29T19:56:53Z")
“I’m a slave 4 U…Subaru!!”
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### Author:  [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/7 "2002-10-29T20:32:08Z")
It all started with “Little Red Corvette”!
"Little Red Corvette,
Baby you’re much too fast
With your 400 horsepower engine
and your independent suspension for handling at high speeds
The 50th anniversary edition is out at a dealer near you
I need to find a love that’s gonna laaaast"
That’s the extended remix, I believe.
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### Author:  [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/8 "2002-10-29T20:51:06Z")
I met her at a bar on a Carnival™ cruise
Where you drink Coors Lite™
and it fizzes just like Pepsi™ Cola
C-O-L-A Cola
She sauntered toward me
and asked for a Camel™
I flipped my Zippo™
and in a smoky voice she said, Polo™
P-O-L-O Polo™
I la la like R.L. Polo™
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/9 "2002-10-29T20:58:41Z")
Ugh, why oh fuckin why do we need to be hit with ads for products 24/7/365?
They wont rest until we see a Coke logo 1,000,000 times a day!
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/10 "2002-10-29T20:59:18Z")
actually, the article does refer to Busta Rhymes’ “courvoiser” references as giving these evil pinheads the idea.
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/11 "2002-10-29T21:06:13Z")
How about “My Adidas” by Run Dmc?
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### Author:  [@Sgt.J](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sgt.J)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/12 "2002-10-29T21:29:57Z")
Crap, I thought this was gonna be a Britteny Spears thread.
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### Author:  [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/13 "2002-10-29T21:45:08Z")
“Here is proof that the music industry has no fucking soul”
To which I reply;
Was there any doubt?
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### Author:  [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/14 "2002-10-30T02:22:48Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by The Tim \*
> \*\*I’d like to believe lots of artists would rather violate contract or just make pure ad jingles out of spite to show record companies they aren’t willing to sell space in their lyrics.
>
> However I have no doubt labels can’t just clone up some more pop-queens, rap-stars and fake rockers who are willing to do this shit. \*\*
Hell, hasn’t Moby made a career out of writing ad jingles?
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2002, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/15 "2002-10-30T02:53:00Z")
What, you’ve never heard “Mercury Blues”?
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/16 "2002-10-30T03:10:19Z")
You know, I used to think that current pop music couldn’t possibly get more plastic and commercialized. And you know what? I was right. Honestly, who cares? Any artist who goes along with this shit isn’t worth listening to in the first place. Does anyone here really care if the next Britney Spears single is about her Nokia cell phone?
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### Author:  [@Tradnor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tradnor)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/17 "2002-10-30T03:25:08Z")
You know, watching X-Files with no lights on, like Harrison Ford I’m getting Frantic and like Snickers I’m guaranteed to satisfy. But I find this new plan for product placement in songs to be disgusting. Anyway, I like a girl who wears Abercrombie and Fitch. We do it like they do on the Discovery Channel, and we do it doggy style so we can both watch X-Files.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/18 "2002-10-30T03:25:08Z")
You know, I used to think that current pop music couldn’t possibly get more plastic and commercialized. And you know what? I was right. Honestly, who cares? Any artist who goes along with this shit isn’t worth listening to in the first place. Does anyone here really care if the next Britney Spears single is about her Nokia cell phone?
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### Author:  [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2002, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/19 "2002-10-30T06:06:41Z")
“Oops my phone rang again
I’m getting a call
It’s a No-ki-aaaaa
Oh baby baby…”
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### Author:  [@samboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samboy)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2002, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/here-is-proof-that-the-music-industry-has-no-fucking-soul/134433/20 "2002-10-30T06:29:18Z")
I think **Miller** make a good point there. The mainstream music industry is already so fucked up that this is just about par for the course. Sad though.
We saw Mike Myers and Britney Spears in AP3 and in the Pepsi commercial simultaneously promoting Pepsi, AP and Britney. Product placement in lyrics is not that much further.
Fuck them.
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