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Marketing with Bob Dylan

Paul Pollets
Paul Pollets Member Posts: 3,663
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I was amazed to see a recent ad featuring Bob Dylan and Victoria's Secret lingerie. Can you believe it? Bob Dylan endorsing panties???? The sound track to the ad was "Love Sick" from his '97 album. He doesn't say anything in the ad, but in the background, the lovely nymphets cavort like angels in next to nothing.
One reporter said: "What would you rather have Bob Dylan selling, ladies' underwear or cat food?"
What is the true meaning of this?

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  • Jim Bennett
    Jim Bennett Member Posts: 607
    Marketing

    Great, I suppose next it will be Neil Young hawking Fruit of the Looms!

    "This notes for you"

    Jim

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  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    I think its perfect

    Bob sounds just like me when I see those undies....

    "Mphersda s0einnf l eoi mumble mumble mumble.... "

    Scott

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  • Dave Yates (PAH)
    Dave Yates (PAH) Member Posts: 2,162
    Easy now....

    My niece writes ad copy for VS & works in their NYC offices.

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  • Mark Hunt
    Mark Hunt Member Posts: 4,908
    Milne


    wears that stuff.

    At least that's what Murph says.

    Mark H

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  • jim sokolovic
    jim sokolovic Member Posts: 439
    Was that also Bob...

    I saw in the new Quiznos sub commercials? He's looking good these days! I heard Willie Nelson is going to pitch for Stayfree...
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Tangled up in blue

    Hey I did'nt say I did'nt like the stuff, allthough it tends to ride up.......

    I just don't understand Bob all the time.

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  • SeattleNick_3
    SeattleNick_3 Member Posts: 16
    Below is a link to the ad if you haven't seen it......



    Pioneer Press > Wednesday, Apr 07, 2004

    For Dylan, the times are really a-changin'

    In one of the strangest marriages of art and commerce imaginable, Bob Dylan, the poet laureate of the counterculture, an icon of hip detachment, is shilling young women in lingerie. Dylan appears in the ads, which debuted Tuesday during "American Idol" and will run on "The O.C.," "Will & Grace" and other shows in 15-, 30- and 60-second versions. The ads use Dylan's song "Love Sick" from 1997's "Time Out of Mind." Dylan appears in black shirt and white tie; model Adriana Lima appears in bra, panties and high heels. "We asked and he agreed," said Ed Razek, chief creative officer for Victoria's Secret. "I can't speculate as to his reasons, but I would not guess money is a large motivator for him at this point." Razek said the amount of Dylan's fee is confidential. Dylan was unavailable for comment. But at a press conference way back in 1965, he was asked if he would ever sell out to commercial interests, and reportedly deadpanned, "Women's undergarments."


    Paste the following address into your browser to see the ad with a mix of an early interview:

    http://www.dylan.dk/VictoriaMix.wmv
  • R. Kalia
    R. Kalia Member Posts: 349


    > at a press conference way back in

    > 1965, he was asked if he would ever sell out to

    > commercial interests, and reportedly deadpanned,

    > "Women's undergarments."


    I didn't know that. So he has been true to his principles all these years!

    Big Bob has also been singing his heart out the last few years---the voice is going but the passion is back. He does nearly a hundred concerts a year, he's always on the road, although indeed he can't need the money.

    Maybe he wants to check if every hair is numbered by examining the Victoria's Secret models.
  • Duncan_13
    Duncan_13 Member Posts: 20
    Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

    C'mon guys... What old geez you know WOULDN'T want to be surrounded by gorgeous near-naked supermodels?

    Seems simple enough to me.
  • John R. Hall
    John R. Hall Member Posts: 2,245
    Quiznos

    Speaking of Quiznos, visit their Web site and click on the commercial. It is the rage at our kid's elementary school. It is so stupid that it is funny -- appealing to the superior intellect of moi.
  • hr
    hr Member Posts: 6,106
    $$$

    Neil Young is in a recent Rolling Stone posed with some bio-diesel product he uses in his tour bus.

    Road and Track claims the Lead Zepplin/ Caddilac ads are their most sucessful ad campaign ever.

    I suppose with all the downloadable music these days the artists need to look for other income sources :)

    Rock on, the baby boomers are spending :)

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  • Terry St.James_2
    Terry St.James_2 Member Posts: 102
    Dylan

    An uncle Bobby song appeared here in Canada some years back for the Bank of Montreal. He was not direstly in the commerical but his song was,"Times they Are A Changin". For the use of the song he received 7 million....not bad at all for stuff he wrote some 35-40 yrs ago
  • Rudy
    Rudy Member Posts: 482
    Dylan

    Yeah, he looks better than he did ten years ago and sounds as bad. I like that he's recording and touring with vigor. He was and always will be a vital artist.

    Heck, Sting wound up with a no.1 hit with a song that previewed on a car commercial way before it was released on CD.

    The BIG news is when Zeppelin finally caved and "sold their soul" to Cadillac. As they say....everything's for sale at the right price.
  • R. Kalia
    R. Kalia Member Posts: 349


    Just "vital artist"? In most lists and surveys he's #2 in the greatest rock singers/bands of all time. But the Beatles (#1) are long departed; the Rolling Stones (#3) have become a Rolling Stones Tribute Band; while Mr. Zimmerman keeps drastically reinventing his old songs (have you heard him sing 'Tambourine Man' lately?), writing and singing new ones (some great, some not so great), and behaving in every way like he wants to die in his footsteps.

    So OK, doing Victoria's Secret ads is a bit silly. I think he's just flattered to be seen as an icon. It's not going to help him get the Nobel in literature, though.
  • Earthfire
    Earthfire Member Posts: 543
    Rock on

    He ain't selling Chinese sweat shop made sneakers, And he is not modeling the scanty undies. No complaints from me
  • S Ebels
    S Ebels Member Posts: 2,322
    Inquiring minds want to know...........

    How does Murph know that Milne wears them there g-stringy outfits. Also what's his size so I can mail order some for him on his next birthday?
  • hr
    hr Member Posts: 6,106
    I like the Wall Flowers too

    his son's band. Writes and sounds a lot like the old man.

    hot rod

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  • Ken D.
    Ken D. Member Posts: 836
    Dylan

    Dylan selling underwear is an ominous sign. If we see Holohan hawking heat pumps, you know the end of world is at hand. REPENT!!
  • jackchips_2
    jackchips_2 Member Posts: 1,337
    Hmmm,

    Dan hawking heat pumps with the LM---nah, can't go there.
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