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Re: Eminem is not "selling out" with his recent ads

Postby FreeSpeech » Feb 9th, '11, 08:07

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Amadeo wrote:Yeah, all that hard work over two decades was all done just so he could have the opportunity to sell ice tea. :confusion:

It was all leading up to that life-long ambition of his.

If someone offered you a million bucks to make a funny commercial for a product you (I'm assuming) like for the biggest game of the season of your favorite sport, you wouldn't do it?

Plus, I think of it this way: Yeah Em has a lot of dough, but it won't last forever. Wouldn't you wanna take care of your fam for as long as possible? Maybe that Lipton $1,000,000 will be feeding Hailey's great grandkids?



lol dude...All that money eminem has banked...Well he makes more in interest per month, than
BOTH of your parents do in a year working full time.

He could live on interest alone for the rest of his life, and still live in a mansion

...I know what I'm talking about when it comes to business and finance, it's what I'm doing with my life. Yes, his money will last his lifetime, but it will eventually run out. Hell, your great grandkids' great grandkids could live comfortably off of you doing a freakin' ice tea commercial?
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Re: Eminem is not "selling out" with his recent ads

Postby dR3 » Feb 9th, '11, 11:39

Are you guys serious? He did ONE commercial, it's not like he's the brand face of Brisk.
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Re: Eminem is not "selling out" with his recent ads

Postby Sofi » Feb 9th, '11, 12:28

Thats what mainstream artist do: they sell, they dont sell out.
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Re: Eminem is not "selling out" with his recent ads

Postby Iris » Feb 9th, '11, 13:50

Sofi wrote:Thats what mainstream artist do: they sell, they dont sell out.

That reminds me of that e!online article where they attack those who call him a sell-out for doing ads.
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Re: Eminem is not "selling out" with his recent ads

Postby Devil'sAdvocate » Feb 9th, '11, 14:27

Chill guys.

it is not a big deal.

man despising Em's morals and intentions for one fuckin ad is stupid.

they guy has a charity foundation in detroit.

"The Marshall Mathers Foundation"

he is not by any means a sell out.
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Re: Eminem is not "selling out" with his recent ads

Postby Unscarred » Feb 9th, '11, 14:41

Yep Eminem is a fuckin sell-out
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Re: Eminem is not "selling out" with his recent ads

Postby Sofi » Feb 9th, '11, 23:19

Did you hear? Eminem sold out on Super Bowl Sunday. It says so right here, and right there on Damon Lindelof's Twitter page.

The critique by the Lost cocreator is the briefest and bluntest: "I love how we're all deftly finding ways to NOT say that Eminem sold out. But he did. So there."

But he didn't. So there.

RELATED: What were the best Super Bowl sell-outs, er, commercials?

Sorry, but you can't sell out on Super Bowl Sunday when (a) you've been accused of selling out since the day you sold your first record, (b) Kim Basinger played your mom in a movie almost 10 years ago and (c) you did Family Guy almost two years ago.

The argument here is not that Eminem has been a sellout all along, it's that he has been mainstream all along.

As to the specific matter of Super Bowl Sunday: It says here the Chrysler spot isn't as holy as has been lauded, and the Lipton Brisk Iced Tea bit isn't as cheesy as has been feared.

The commercials are neither good nor bad nor great; they're commercials—commercials starring a mainstream artist.

If one of the ads happened to make residents of a downtrodden city happy, then fantastic. If one of the ads happened to cast its star in cartoon form, then lighten up and enjoy the fact that the li'l rapper managed to drop in a "damn."

The idea that Eminem himself lightened up on Super Bowl Sunday is, frankly, what made both commercials so appealing. For once, he wasn't tortured. For once, he was Diddy, pitching away in the name of civic pride, fun and, yes, canned iced tea. (Hey, did you ever consider that maybe he really likes the stuff?)

This is what mainstream artists do: They sell. Not sell out.



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Re: Eminem is not "selling out" with his recent ads

Postby 8milestyle » Feb 9th, '11, 23:52

Eminem is the highest selling artists of the past decade. He isn't selling out. He's doing what he's been doing since Slim Shady LP dropped. It would be selling out if he changed the way he acted to fit the commercials and make money/fans. Instead, both commercials were specifically based on aspects of his personality that he is already well-known for (his irreverence and violence in the Lipton ad, and his repping of Detroit for the Chrysler one). That's not selling out - that's being so well-known that your persona is worth millions.
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Re: Eminem is not "selling out" with his recent ads

Postby N.W.A. » Feb 10th, '11, 00:41

I don't think he's a sell out but it was a sell out move if that makes any damn sense. But to everybody saying it wasn't a sell out move, he can do what he wants, it's not a big deal, would you be saying that if, say, Lil Wayne did a Lipton commercial?
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