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GREAT MOMENTS IN MARKETING: SEE THE BAND, BUY THE BRA
ITEM [via YesButNoButYes]: So yr a lingerie company looking for a way to promote yr brand? Why not start a rock band? Featuring women playing while wearing bras?
That’s what Vassarette did. They spent 2008 auditioning “the most talented female musicians confident enough to perform in their bras”.
This is what they came up with: The Vassarettes.
And goodness, they’re awful.
To be fair, they’re all good musicians who can also sing okay. But they definitely need a better songwriter, because the song they’ve been handed (or wrote themselves) sucks monkey ass. Music doesn’t get more soulless and lifeless than this outside of the average High School Musical soundtrack. Kelly Clarkson rocks harder, for God’s sake.
Nice bras, mind. Which is probably the point. And if the Pussycat Dolls can make a career out of it, why can’t people who can actually play instruments?
Still, it’s a shame to see otherwise decent talent wasted on a silly, pointless project like this – especially with me being a fan of rock music AND lingerie and all. It just goes to show that bands are more than the sum of their parts – especially when they’re assembled for the sole purpose of promoting a corporate brand.
It also goes to show that Bill Hicks was right.
ADDENDUM: Can I just say that despite my appreciation for burlesque and lingerie, I can’t find a single thing sexy about Pussycat Dolls? Seriously. Their videos come on and nothing tingles. Not even a little. Granted, to each his own, but still, the needle is NOT moving here.
Turn it down,
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That’s what Vassarette did. They spent 2008 auditioning “the most talented female musicians confident enough to perform in their bras”.
This is what they came up with: The Vassarettes.
And goodness, they’re awful.
To be fair, they’re all good musicians who can also sing okay. But they definitely need a better songwriter, because the song they’ve been handed (or wrote themselves) sucks monkey ass. Music doesn’t get more soulless and lifeless than this outside of the average High School Musical soundtrack. Kelly Clarkson rocks harder, for God’s sake.
Nice bras, mind. Which is probably the point. And if the Pussycat Dolls can make a career out of it, why can’t people who can actually play instruments?
Still, it’s a shame to see otherwise decent talent wasted on a silly, pointless project like this – especially with me being a fan of rock music AND lingerie and all. It just goes to show that bands are more than the sum of their parts – especially when they’re assembled for the sole purpose of promoting a corporate brand.
It also goes to show that Bill Hicks was right.
ADDENDUM: Can I just say that despite my appreciation for burlesque and lingerie, I can’t find a single thing sexy about Pussycat Dolls? Seriously. Their videos come on and nothing tingles. Not even a little. Granted, to each his own, but still, the needle is NOT moving here.
Turn it down,
This is dF
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Sounds like a half decent song in there that was composed by some session guys (it's "My Sharona" with a bubblegum pop song on it) and then some production weed like Timbaland was hired to mix the instruments way back and enhance the vocals.
I second your observation abotu the Pussycat Dolls. They've Taken Sexy Away and replaced it with Massive Boredom.
-- JF