Be ye a CEO of the Corner or the corner office, you’ve gotta know what those on the street are saying about your brand.
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Be ye a CEO of the Corner or the corner office, you’ve gotta know what those on the street are saying about your brand.
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related posts:
Social Structure of The Wire
TR just shot stage legend Kermit for Supreme – a triumverate for the ages. Richardson’s name is popping up with increasing frequency on the advert circuit. One day is the value/act of being by shot him going to supercede the final product?
I also wonder if in the next few years we’ll see a brand call for Richardson (Get Me One of Those!) and then have 2nd thoughts once the work is delivered. Like Motorola did with
Michel Gondry, making the mistake of swooning for the starshine, but overlooking the actual work that made the artist an artist .
It’s the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s album Thriller and his premiere of The Moonwalk. (ir)Regardless of the man, his tunes have stood the test of time. And beyond the music, it’s MJ on the MTV that made him the King of Pop. Last year prisoners in Manila doing Thrilla went viral. In 2008 will we see an en masse Moonwalk?
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Vampire Weekend dropped it hot this week and got met with both Kisses and Bronx Cheers. Maybe it’s my preppy roots and culture, but these kids are alright with me. As one sage said: “[This is just] the inevitable graduation of privileged indie kids into their rightful social milleu. Drop the post- art-school ‘ghetto’ chic of most recent Brooklyn arrivistes and you get…this band.” VW keeps it realer than most of us 18-34 liberals in NYC, so let’s put down our snarker rifles and pull on our dancing shoes. To help us all, here’s a little mixtape I cooked up: The Garlic Press & Pestle. (Oh yeah, I’m twee like VW) It’s got that Clipse Cape Cod remix, some Soweto sounds from ’99, Biggie beats over bhangra and Roy Orbison. (you can’t hear it, but the dancehall airhorn is blasting over here)
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UPDATE: Here is a new metric to study band buzz, can you spot the next Vampire?
As our politicos yammer about a widening income gap, two America’s and such, I’d like to take this time of respite to remind our friends that good pop is a grand unifier if only for fleeting minutes. We should find further comfort in the ability of a gold chain to proffer authority upon its wearer, even if for the sake of comedy.
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Run-DMC, Justin, rope chain or herringbone, and that’s the way you do it.