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Red Hot Chili Pepper Slams 'Sell Out' U2 And Black Eyed Peas

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Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith has slammed U2 and Black Eyed Peas for letting their music be used on TV advertisements.

Smith - speaking from the T In The Park Festival - rounded on the two bands for both licensing out their songs to promote iPods – branding Black Eyed Peas in particular as “a bunch of idiots”.

He rants to the Daily Record, “I'm fine with getting our music out to people but I don't want to be on a TV commercial with some guy bowling and then music comes out of his phone. There's no artistic credibility. I'd feel like a jerk if we did that. I think Black Eyed Peas look like a bunch of idiots. It's dangerous.

“The U2 song on the iPod (Vertigo) when it came out was weird and it was longer and it had more parts. It's dangerous to tie yourself in with a product and also the visuals that go along with it.

“I think young people, not old guys like myself, think it's normal now to have Led Zeppelin on jeans commercials. That's not normal to me."
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  • he has a point about ’no artistic credibility’. I reckon U2 made sure they had the last say tho whether they were happy with it or not.

    ~ by toni 11/30/1999

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  • That commercial he’s referring to was Yellowcard, not BEP’s. Just sayin’ ....

    ~ by madamehysterya 11/30/1999

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  • I nearly puked when I heard Zeppelin on the Caddillac commercial... SO WRONG on SO MANY levels...

    ~ by Amy3125 11/30/1999

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  • commercialism is all wrong as for u2 they sold out years ago and the black eyed peas are just wrong

    ~ by framey 11/30/1999

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