News Adam Levine thanks critics 'for always pushing us' after panned Super Bowl halftime show

[Scarpozzi]

I like how Corgi B said she wouldn't play the show....out of protest, yet she was in some of the "Superbowl" commercials... I feel like that's cheating on the protest for $$.

 

[BudAshes]

Maroon 5 is like U2 and coldplay. A bunch of boring ass songs that I tune out after 3 seconds.

 

[zinfamous]

I like how Corgi B said she wouldn't play the show....out of protest, yet she was in some of the "Superbowl" commercials... I feel like that's cheating on the protest for $$.

It's not like they have any control over when the ads are released. You sign a contract to show up and get paid to do a thing. Ad shows up next month, next year...who knows?

 

[BudAshes]

It's not like they have any control over when the ads are released. You sign a contract to show up and get paid to do a thing. Ad shows up next month, next year...who knows?

Commercials are the best part of being a celebrity. Show up for a few hours, get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. Really the biggest upside of being famous.

 

[Bird222]

Well, as you can see, the SpongeBob video is of him/them performing during the halftime of a football game (alluding to the Super Bowl). Back in November, Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob died. So there's sort of been a "grass roots" or "viral" plea to get the SpongeBob song played at halftime of the Super Bowl. They did a slight nod to it by playing a small part of the intro, but didn't play the whole thing. So SpongeBob fans feel they were a little cock-teased over it (though they should be happy with what they got) Dallas Stars just went all the way and, as you can see by the fan reaction, it appears to have been a hit.

Thanks for the explanation.

 

[zinfamous]

Commercials are the best part of being a celebrity. Show up for a few hours, get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. Really the biggest upside of being famous.

It's also the only steady paycheck you can hope for in that kind of career. It's actually quite lucrative, especially if you are lucky to get on a long-running campaign--like Peter Groszc and TJ Jagadowski--those dudes that have been doing the Sonic ads for...forever now. I recall seeing them years ago doing improv in Chicago (they are kinda big in the improv world), and that ad campaign is pretty much what they do now, aside from the occasional bits in the various other improv-specialty movies that feature that staple crew, and I'm guessing the guest spots at various 2nd City shows wherever they are--that kind of thing pays basically nothing, though. Those ads pretty much suck now, but those two dudes make absolute bank doing it, and I think a 5-ad set takes something like 1 day of work, and can run for 1-3 years.

I knew a guy that used to be that "Nintendo Gamecube guy"--there were maybe 6 or so ads overall, but he played an employee that was a bit of an idiot, stocking Gamecubes, doing...whatever stupid stuff, working in a toy store. I think that ran for about 3 years. It was is only real paycheck, aside from various small gigs here and there, and he did pretty well with it for that time.