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There is a God
Crazy Frog is jacking it in!
Music
Music from the Orange “Pouring paint” ad
I’d like to help you out on this one as I normally do, guys, but it’s not commercially available: it was independently commissioned for the commercial, and put together by Sonjay Prabhakar and ad agency Mother. But you can watch the ad by clicking on the image above. How’s that?
Entry standard for Walk of Fame is dropping
Queen Latifah now has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Can you name even half of a good film that she’s been in?
EMAP planning an FHM radio station
While I can see vaguely where Dee Ford, head of EMAP’s radio business, is coming from, the idea of an FHM radio station seems, erm, odd. How many people does she think buy FHM for the articles? And what’s the content going to be like?
FHM DJ: Hi Sarah Dunn from Hollyoaks! Sit down. Love the bikini, by the way. Let me describe it to the listeners at home…
I imagine that Dee Ford is thinking of something only loosely associated with ‘Junior Playboy’ – probably something along the lines of a radio station that plays the kind of music 17-year-old boys without girlfriends like. (You may think I’m stereotyping, but back in the 90s, the ad team at FHM used to pitch the mag to advertisers as “being read by teenage males without much experience of women”. I have no idea if they still do…).
And isn’t there a risk that a mediocre FHM radio station would risk tarnishing the print brand’s great image? Oh, what am I thinking…?
Disclaimer: I do some work for EMAP from time to time. Only for Broadcast though, not for FHM
Frankly, you get what you deserved for buying a Coldplay CD in the first place
This is from the CD insert for the Indian release of Coldplay’s X&Y. In case you were wondering, you don’t get to read it until you’ve bought the CD. Anyone want to clear up what CD players it actually will play on? Or why you’d want to, given it’s Coldplay?
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