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

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."