• @[email protected]
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      I dunno man, Pinkerton had some pretty good songs. But after that yeah it was pretty much downhill.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        I do remember enjoying one or two songs on Pinkerton, but I can’t remember any names. There certainly wasn’t anything as iconic as The Sweater Song, Say It Ain’t So, or Buddy Holly.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      I must be one of the few who really enjoyed the green album. But hell, even that was over 20 years ago

    • @[email protected]
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      “Hey, everybody! Thanks for coming out tonight to our concert presented by Amazon dot com’s Audible dot com. Audible - it’s got what brains crave.”

      • Rose56
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        “and don’t forget to subscribe and likeeeehhhhhh donate to us when you exit”

  • WheatleyInc
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    My friend went to a Weezer concert recently, he said there weren’t any ads pushed.

  • @[email protected]
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    I went to a comic gig earlier this year and they did an advert for sky, I was livid and proceeded to not engage anymore and tell everyone they’re a shill

  • Franzia
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    This is why more cool and talented people should be in the public eye. Weezer legit felt, when I was 16, to be the best representation of my aesthetics and values. Writers I liked referenced them. Their music was in ads for stuff I liked. And so my teenage personality was heavily influenced by these shitty people who made good music before I was born (and pretty shit music after I was born).

    And that vulnerability and honesty and that highly creative style is what drew me in, in the first place.

    • @[email protected]
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      it always seemed kinda cheesy and phoned-in to me. Like they just came up with easy melodies and wrapped them in the most accessible format. Like a Nickelback for a different crowd.

  • Fr❄stb☃️te
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    "I love Audible, Get blind drunk and unintelligible, Or get so high its unmanageable, But I get it good with Audible!

    The books read aloud are music to my ears, The money spent is the negatives everyone hears, But those amazing voices are like a great case of your favourite beers, Inside my devices are Audible!

    Audible Dot Com! The place to be, Audible Dot Com! The amazing titles you’ll see! Audible Dot Com! Its all you need, When you’re drinking beers or smoking weed!

    Audible Dot Com!"

    • Weezer, a once decent band turned advertising group.
  • @[email protected]
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    If you’re in US, you can borrow audiobooks from public libraries for free usually through an app. Its very convenient.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 years ago

      Libby! They also loan out ebooks (which is usually what I use it for). Total game-changer.

      Also, as a tip: Check out what libraries you’re eligible to join. I’m in New York State, and despite not living in NYC, I am totally eligible for cards at the New York Public Library, Queens Public Library, and Brooklyn Public Library. Between those, and all the libraries in my county pooling their resources, I rarely have to wait long for a book unless it’s brand new.

    • @[email protected]
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      And if you’re a pirate, or if you happen to have a lot of Audiobook CDs, or if you have a bunch of books on audible and want to free them, AudiobookShelf is an amazing self hosted solution for Audiobook libraries

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    Grapes of Wrath is a great song, it’s not some “audible ad”. It’s weird that one of their best songs in years is being characterized like that.

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      Right?! And the album’s several years old now. The song is one of many written in the midst of the pandemic about the peculiar escapes from life we find.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    How would this even work? Would the crowd not be booing the ad-song? I can’t imagine a sponsor would want that.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 years ago

        I love that part of the movie because at the time it premiered I had an acquaintance from university who was vegan. Dude would pass out cold if he stood up too fast. Doctor said that as it turns out, he was doing vegan wrong and he needed to eat meat ASAP to fix the damage to his metabolism. Then, afterwards, if he still wanted to be vegan he would have to supplement way more protein than he was doing before. The contrasting absurdity always cracked me up when they tried to make it as if being vegan gives them superpowers.

          • R0cket_M00se
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            Cause… Cause you’ll be dust, on Monday. She doesn’t clean on the weekends.

        • @[email protected]
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          I like the joke in the comic better (paraphrased from memory)

          “You ate chicken parmesan.”

          “whats Parmesan, is it an animal?”

          “I don’t know”

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      Yeah I was thinking it was Grapes of Wrath. It makes sense, the song’s whole point was River’s pandemic-era hobbies, and Audible blew up in the pandemic. I feel this rant is just the author projecting their anti-Amazon mindset onto a band they dislike. Sure, Amazon is terrible, but I doubt they would pay Weezer of all bands to promote Audible. Maybe its just my youthful optimism and love of Weezer clouding my rationality, but I feel like this is just another “old man yells at cloud”.

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      IMO there is no way a musician name drops a product without collecting a bag. The interview with Amazon would also have cost them money to make happen.

      Weezer would need to be astonishingly naive to write the song before the agreement was reached with Amazon. Also other comments in this thread detail their past record of selling out.

      I listen to quite a lot of hip-hop and there were a couple of years about a decade ago where almost every artist had a lyric about uber.

    • Thurstylark
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      Oh, good. So it’s not paid stupidity, it’s genuine stupidity.

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        It’s interesting. There are many songs from over the years about products the song writer likes.

        I’m thinking about beers, and cars, and instruments, and various other things. Including games and movies and books.

        It’s funny that once it’s a website, that crosses the line.

        • Thurstylark
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          It’s not the website part that I find stupid. It’s the advertising for free.

          I also think that those things are stupid. Whatever company owns the product isn’t going to be happy if you take it for free, so don’t give that company something for free.

        • @[email protected]
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          People are incapable of applying critical thinking to traditions. They grew up with beer and car ads, so that’s normal. Website ads are new, so they get treated with basic critical thinking and are hated, because that’s the logical way to feel about all ads.

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      Also doesn’t seem like it was paid placement

      I’m not so sure on that. At the very least they paid him for the interview there, and really I think they probably just made out that they didn’t find out beforehand.

      It’s pretty ridiculous to think that a band that’s been in the business as long as Weezer has, signed to a major label like Atlantic Records, wouldn’t ask for permission to use someone else’s brand in one of their songs.