Turn on the T.V., go shopping, look at billboards, pretty much everywhere you look those corporate whores are doing it! I know of at least 4 TV commercials that are running right now with them sponsoring it. Do these girls actually sing or do anything else? It’s to the point where you start hating all the products they are selling and wouldn’t want to buy them :fume: . Anyone else with me on this?
Absolutely. But it helps if you look at them as businesspeople and not musicians or artists. The same can be said about much of the music and television industries: your music or your talk show only lasts if you’re able to sell X units of toilet cleaner.
Yeah, I’m pretty much that way with anything. Once I see an Artist hawking products, or mentioning sponsors in the Liner Notes of their CDs, then fuck 'em…their art has already been tainted, and undoubtedly compromised to maintain the sponsorship. And fuck the products they’re promoting.
As far as S.H.E. goes, I’m assuming that you’re talking about those three Taiwanese girls (maybe chinese I don’t know) that do adverts for 7-11 and what not. I don’t really know who they are. They’re probably just some frabricated group of “famous” women who were made to sell products. Like, they’re famous only because the T.V. tells you they are, and since they’re famous, listen to what they have to say (and we all know how young Taiwanese girls have an insane admiration for anyone famous). I wouldn’t be surprised if, although S.H.E. probably has no musical talent whatsoever, a CD was released under that monicker with the members of S.H.E. portraied on the front, and different (read “musical”) people singing.
I’d pay to see that.
I can make an exception for Willie Nelson though.
" George Micheal is a girl selling Diet Coke at least Madonna has the integrity to sell real Coke."
Read Bill Hicks biography he always mantained the same thing the above posters said including Tetsuo’s Willie Nelson’s bit. (after all the taxman caught up).
FYI, “S.H.E.” is the incorrect punctuation. You’ll see it as “S.H.E” everywhere. Why on earth don’t they put a dot after the E?
In America singing stars don’t promote products, sports stars do. There are exceptions, such as Britney Spears or even Michael Jackson in the old days. But you can see lots of famous athletes promoting products.
Without a strong sport culture, Taiwan’s role models are the singing stars. It’s not limited to S.H.E - Sun Yan Zi, Jolin, Jay Zhou, ENERGY, and even May Day are in product endorsement heaven. There’s a funny scene in the movie “Twenty Something Taipei” where they are trying to get a long haired guitar guy to endorse products, and he says he wants to promote yogurt drinks. When the stars endorse the products, the products sell better - it must be so or there’d be no reason to give the stars endorsement contracts.
I agree to a point but when artisits mention relevant products in a offhand way I think it is fine.
For example: “Thanks to Zildjian, Pearl, Fender, Marshall Amplifiers and Vic Firth sticks.”
However, seeing Metallica mention: “Thanks to Scott’s Disposable Pipe Cleaners and Kwik Save Value Tea Bags” would detract from the overall music experience.
Getting celebreties to endorse brands is pretty annoying. You should have a look in the UK where celebrety has beens start popping up with a new lease of life starring in the latest soap commercials.
- Disclaimer:
I don’t really like Metallica. Under no circumstancse is this post to be misconstrued as an indication of my personal tastes in music.
I like MUSE.
How do I know if I’m looking at S.H.E? They all look alike to me. Young trendy cute girls with highlighted hair and smart clothes. Properly made up and accessorized. I think I saw one on the bus this morning. I should go up and say, “Are you S.H.E?”
S.H.E proudly support forumosa.com!
Those three girls are not remotely cute or attractive in any way, and they obviously don’t have any dress sense whatsoever. In fact, fan as I am of young Chinese women in general, I find those three cardboard cutouts very unpleasant to behold – just about as charmless, dumb-looking, shallow, and annoying as any xiaojie I’ve ever seen. When they appear on a TV screen in front of me, I have to avert my eyes to save myself from the irritation that they arouse in me and an overwhelming impulse to slap them. There are so many breath-stoppingly gorgeous young women with bubbly personalities in Taiwan that it perplexes me greatly how a trio like that can be groomed for and achieve such huge popularity.
Still wouldn’t kick any of them out of bed for eating biscuits. 'specially the short-haired one.
Which one is E? She must be on the pill.
I have to agree with Omni on this one. I won’t say anything negative about them, but I don’t see what all the hype is about.
Those three girls are not remotely cute or attractive in any way, and they obviously don’t have any dress sense whatsoever. In fact, fan as I am of young Chinese women in general, I find those three cardboard cutouts very unpleasant to behold – just about as charmless, dumb-looking, shallow, and annoying as any xiaojie I’ve ever seen. When they appear on a TV screen in front of me, I have to avert my eyes to save myself from the irritation that they arouse in me and an overwhelming impulse to slap them. There are so many breath-stoppingly gorgeous young women with bubbly personalities in Taiwan that it perplexes me greatly how a trio like that can be groomed for and achieve such huge popularity.[/quote]
:bravo: :bravo:
Truly, they seem to me to be about 15 years old. What on Earth could they even conceivably be famous for? Getting good grades in junior high school? It really must be that simple – they’re famous because they’re on TV, and they again show up on TV because now they’re famous … for being on TV.
Arrrghhhh…I was just going to write how much of a (how’d you put it Tetsuo?) a slapper she is. Man, you’ve got zero taste. She looks like she’s been rode hard and put away wet.
BTW, The DNS tells me they are ; Serina, Hebe, and Ella. Ella, btw, is the one Tetsuo likes. The DNS also reports that Ella is very popular amongst the local carpet muncher set.
Apparently, they sing. They have a CD or two out. I am awaiting a link to support this.
What, she kind of reminds me of an ex-girlfriend. Granted, the ex was better looking, but still.
Hebe? HEBE? If I’d been drinking coffee, I’d have spit it all over my keyboard.
Richard, I think we have rules against racist speech here!
Is she really called Hebe?
Or maybe she’s doing a Mothers of Invention thing – you know – “I’m the token Indian in the band.” But I doubt it. More likely its the Greek goddess thing she chose. Just shows its true what they say about the danger of a little knowledge.
That’s because the average person in Taiwan apparently doesn’t understand that the dots are abbreviation marks (and let’s not get into another abbrevition vs. acronym debate), and instead apparently believe them to separators. I see this all the time in my translation and editing work.
Hebe? HEBE? If I’d been drinking coffee, I’d have spit it all over my keyboard.
Richard, I think we have rules against racist speech here!
Is she really called Hebe?
Or maybe she’s doing a Mothers of Invention thing – you know – “I’m the token Indian in the band.” But I doubt it. More likely its the Greek goddess thing she chose. Just shows its true what they say about the danger of a little knowledge.[/quote]
Pronounced He Bee. Dorkus. ooops. I mean your post is dorkus.
And we have rules against outing people. Now everyone knows I am Richard.