WTF?!? Bob Dylan/Victoria's Secret poll on CNN

[derby378]

Poll question: WTF?!? Bob Dylan/Victoria's Secret poll on CNN

Had enough of CNN? Wait, there's more...

http://www.cnn.com

The poll is echoed below, with one additional choice:

Is Bob Dylan a good choice to advertise Victoria's Secret underwear?

[ikojo]

1. Dylan is a corporate whore like many other baby boomer

performers. So much for the "revolution."

[rumguy]

4. oh god

[Carni]

7. I have to agree with you

Is the guy that hard up for money?

Couldn't he at least advertise a fuel cell car or something, as opposed to bras and panties?

First the Cadillac commercials with Led Zep...then The Who in the background of the H2 commercials and now this Dylan thing.

At least The Who and Led Zep didn't didn't represent anything
but Rock and Roll -- but I thought Bob Dylan was supposed to be so "peace and love" and all that other crap?

No wonder people my age are so damned cynical!

[tigereye]

10. what is this, dump on boomers day?

or is that every day? :) Like I said in another thread, it doesn't make sense to label a generation. And what "revolution" are you talking about? Seriously. I think that there may have been a cultural revolution in our country on some level in the past (perhaps several in a sociological sense), but not a political one. Many of my peers in the eighties thought that electing Reagan would lead to a revolution and this was not the case.

[tom_paine]

12. This post is counterproductive bullshit

Nice contribution to the debate, Einstein.

:thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

[skooooo]

18. Aww lighten up! Bob's earned the right to do..

whatever he fuckin' feels like.

[On the Road]

2. To Advertise Them or to Model Them?

The answer might be different.

[derby378]

3. At least he's not MODELING those boyshorts

:wtf:

[Supormom]

5. He appears in the ads with a model

He is not modeling the teddies and undies himself. Although, that would be rather interesting!

[capriccio]

6. Fear

Long time ago the Wicked Messengner said something to the effect that some folks are afraid of the A-Bomb and some folks are afraid to be seen with a Modern Screen magazine.

Or in this case, a Victoria's Secret Catalog. As he's shown through his entire career, he knows no such fear. He remains the bravest, most independent artist of our time...and, like that cover shot on Nashville Skyline, he's got nothing but a smile and a tip o' the hat for folks who can't get it... and insist that he walk in their dream.

[madrchsod]

9. no folks don`t get it

shit it`s almost as bad when he went electric..well maybe not that bad..

[madrchsod]

8. 43 thousand votes?

what the hell is that? bob`s doing what he wants to do,if an old guy can land a vicky`s secret commercial more power to him.

[Bridget Burke]

11. The old guy is still driving them nuts....

They flipped when he started writing "personal" songs rather than protest tunes.

They went mad when he "went electric".

They were puzzled when he toned it down again for "John Wesley Harding".

They retched when he recorded in Nashville.

They've continued to be confused as he's tried out Christianity, Judaism & heavy makeup.

And he's still writing songs. Not as great as his early years, but he avoided the "youthful OD" cliche. (Too bad about Kurt--he didn't survive being "The Voice of His Generation".)

And he's still performing. He works a heavy schedule with a serious band & doesn't do the same show every night.

And, past 60, he's being paid to go to Venice with a slew of pretty models.

Good for him.



(edited to add the picture)

[tom_paine]

13. I haven't watched CNN in 3 years (with very few exceptions)

I also haven't regretted that decision.

[derby378]

14. Ahem

Here's why I posted the poll:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/06/iraq.main/index.html

Najah fell to al-Sadr insurgents, the US Marines are storming Fallujah, and our tanks shelled the only hospital in Fallujah - and CNN is polling on Bob Dylan's Victoria's Secret ads.

:wtf:

[muchacho]

15. scantily clad babe

I read about the commercial in the Wall Street Journal and saw the commercial last night. I went to VS today to get my wife's birthday present and saw they are selling a special compilation of Dylan's work.

I guess Bob thought he was losing the scantily clad babe demo....

[Kurt Remarque]

16. the answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind

i guess he works on maggie's farm after all

[rucky]

17. Wonder how much Victoria paid CNN to run this poll

Dylan could count to 10 & I'd lap it up.

[VOX]

19. "Sad-eyed lady of the sheer bra, where the sad-eyed prophet says..."

"that no man comes.." :evilgrin:

Sorry -- :spank:

[DemBones DemBones]

20. Hah! I knew we boomers were getting old the first time

I heard James Brown's "I Feel Good" used in a laxative commercial. That was trashy commercialism! And I was thirty-something then.

No matter how great your generation's music was, you end up hearing it on Muzak or television ads.

I think the Dylan Victoria's Secret ad is a bit strange but I'm just thankful the man who wrote "Forever Young" is not advertising "oatmeal for your heart" or incontinence products.

:shrug:


I'll always love Dylan's music, no matter what he does.

CNN, on the other hand, runs some silly polls and this one seems especially ill-timed.