Tag: Adam Yauch
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Girls vs Boys: Fair use and advertising
I really liked the Goldieblox advert when I saw it, the attitude, the aim of getting more girls into STEM. I didn’t even think about the backing music much apart from thinking it was a slightly odd but subversive choice as a fun parody of Beastie Boys very misogynistic and not-at-all kid-friendly ‘Girls’. It seems…
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Monster Beasties
I heard about this odd piece of news linking the fact that MCA’s will said he didn’t want him to appear in ads at all to the Monster lawsuit. I thought the timing of both announcements to be rather odd – could be just lazy journalism but a lot of the articles linked the two.…
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More bad news – RIP Lloyd Brevett & MCA
(Skatalites – Nimrod which has been completely scrubbed off YouTube. Odd.) Hmm after Nitro Deluxe the bad news keeps on coming, it always comes in threes…one you probably don’t know and the other you do. Of course everyone’s talking about the death of Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beastie Boys – I’m sure as…