Rob Zombie VS. Mazda
 

"Someone like Britney Spears doesn't have any integrity to maintain, so it doesn't matter -- she's a corporate puppet from the get-go," Zombie observes. "I don't want to play that song live and see the kids go, 'Hey! It's the truck song!'

Ive never seen/heard this commercial, so im not sure exactly what commercial this article is talking about. Anyone seen this ad?

While I dont want to see Mazda get hurt, I do understand 100% what Rob is talking about. When a band starts "selling out", it ruins there reputation with alot of fans.

http://www.motortrend.com/news/stories/020426rz.html

I saw it and yes I was like WTF is a Zombie song doing in a car commercial. I see it a lot nowadays. Ususally the car company will have some shit elevator music band play the song so that "tis ok". Go Rob & bring em to their knees.

I dunno what Zombie is talking about with this integrity crap. I used to be a huge White Zombie fan, La Sexorcisto was a fresh album, the ones before La Sexorcisto were good too I suppose for butt rock. Then the first Rob Zombie album was pretty good, but this last one, uggh just flat out sucks, and he's all about being on MTV these days. Seems Rob has already sold out. But if Mazda is using his shit without permission, then take em down.

Technically, a person or a company can use music in their commercial without any permission from the artist. Most artists don't "own" their music, the music labels/distributers do. A company that wants to use certain music clips have to pay royalties that are organized through publishers like ASCAP, BMI, or in Canada SOCAN. Permission is just a courtesy that most artists give to other musicians.

True. Devil Music Vol is still my #1 cd ever. All others can bow down. They should just give me a zombie wagon. I'd be happy.

rights...
 

Unless Rob Zombie owns his own record label... witch I think he does...

Re: rights...
 

I don't think so, the record label he goes through is Geffen records ( www.geffen.com ) Either way though, I see why Rob Zombie is so upset about this... he promised his fans he wouldn't be a sell-out, that his music wasn't about that... and along comes Mazda making one of his songs into a car commercial jingle. Yeah I'd be pissed too. He's defending what he believes in. If he doesn't, and he accepts money for them to use his song, he'll lose a lot of fans, AND be a hypocrite.

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He "sold out" when he started recording songs for money in the first place. Oh well. If Geffen is his studio then they probably sold the rights Rob Zombie be damned. What happens when you deal with "evil" corporations. They take your artistic credibility to the cleaners.

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If that's what constitutes being a sell-out I guess that makes 99.9% of all recording artists sell-outs then. I can't think of one famous group/singer right now NOT getting paid to make music, go on tour, etc. :rolleyes:

Hmm well did you all know that he got his break as a producer on the Pee-Wee Herman show. No lie.

Lmao, no I had no idea about that, pretty funny :D

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Do you really believe this? I HATE :rant: people who say bands are sellouts when they start getting popular. Being a sellout is when you go against what you believe and preach. If a band doesnt believe in MTV, and they appear on MTV, then they are sellouts. I think Limp Bizkit was a sellout, since they started as a band that was "family", then they parted their seperate ways when they started focusing on everything other than what the began as. This happens to alot of bands, which is pretty sad. I could give you a ton of examples, but if Rob Zombie gave Mazda the "ok" to use his song, then he could be considered a sellout...

Have you seen that guys haunted house that he puts up at some theme park. I think it's in Cali. I just heard it was sick. A friend of mine met him a while back and he couldn't stop talking about how he had to keep toning it down.

I havent heard about his haunted house, but the lead singer for "Pantera" has a haunted house in a old warehouse here in New Orleans. That shit is sick!!!The House of Shock

The uhmmmm "quotations" are secret code for I'm being a smartass. Don't get your knickers in a knot.

But actually I think the sell-outs are the groups that pretend to have some form of a philosophy. Their philosophy was ripped away by their recording company the moment they signed the contract. They do what the company tell them to do because it makes them money and the record company will sue their butts if they don't. Bands keep their philosophy as long as it keeps them popular.