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Have you guys seen the ad with Bob Dylan doing Victoria's Secrets?
What the hell happened to this guy? He used to be a beatnik, challenging the man? Now he's selling bras and panties?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/03/MNGRI608A81.DTL&type=printable
Dylan goes eclectic, appears in Victoria's Secret TV ad
Aidin Vaziri, Special to The Chronicle
Saturday, April 3, 2004
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Forget Janet Jackson: The most controversial pop star on television right now is Bob Dylan, who made his first appearance in a television commercial last week -- for Victoria's Secret.
The spot, which first aired during Tuesday's "American Idol" broadcast, was shot at the Palazzo in Venice and features the '60s counterculture icon singing a remix of his 1997 song "Love Sick," flocked by scantily clad models with feathery angels' wings affixed to their backs. The 62-year-old sports a John Waters-like pencil moustache and eyeliner in the commercial.
Dylan fans immediately flooded Internet chat rooms to express outrage in impassioned rants, while the New York Post flatly labeled him its "sellout of the week."
According to Victoria's Secret Creative Director Ed Razek, the unlikely idea of having the former Robert Allen Zimmerman hawking lingerie came straight from the company Chairman and CEO Les Wexner.
"We had done some spots last year with Dylan's music, and they got a great response," Razek said Friday. "So Les asked, 'Do you think Dylan would do a commercial?' It was a stunningly bold idea. We called his management, they found a two-day hole in his schedule, and off we went to Venice."
While Dylan was unavailable for comment, Claire Mercuri, vice president of media relations at Columbia Records, said the label had no trouble with Dylan's side project: "We think this is a great way to reach people with Bob's music. We're thrilled that he said 'yes' when we asked him to be in the commercial."
In addition to the commercial -- Dylan's first in his 40-year career --
Victoria's Secret stores are also offering a nine-track CD of his songs for $10.
"I can't speak for his motivation, but it certainly wouldn't be commercial," Razek says.
also from CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/06/dylan.lingerie.ap/index.html
Latest Victoria's Secret model: Bob Dylan
Singer appearing in new series of ads
Tuesday, April 6, 2004 Posted: 9:54 AM EDT (1354 GMT)
Bob Dylan, as seen in the Victoria's Secret campaign.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New, from Victoria's Secret: the MiracleBob?
Bob Dylan appears in a new series of commercials for Victoria's Secret, his grizzled face intercut with shots of model Adriana Lima cavorting through Venice in a bra, panties and spike heels.
Don't worry. The 62-year-old Dylan keeps his clothes on.
Dylan's song "Love Sick," from his Grammy-winning 1997 album "Time Out of Mind," provides the musical backdrop for the spot, which airs in 15-, 30- and 60-second versions.
It promotes a new line of lingerie, the "Angels" collection -- which explains the wings on Lima's back as she prances across a palazzo near a Venetian canal.
"It's weird," said New York disc jockey Dennis Elsas, who's played Dylan music for three decades. "I would be hesitant to say it's awful or wonderful. It's just strange."
The commercials began airing a week ago, and will run for the next two weeks, said Ed Razek, chief creative officer for Victoria's Secret. The company experienced an immediate uptick in sales once the spots ran, he said.
Dylan was not a hard sell when approached about the campaign, Razek said. The company already had decided to use the song when its corporate boss, Les Wexner, suggested inviting Dylan himself.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer quickly agreed, although no one's quite sure why.
"I can't speculate to his reasons, I never talked to him about why he decided to come to the party, but he did," Razek said. "He's iconic, a living legend."
Dylan's spokesman did not return messages for comment about the campaign.
Little backlash
It's the first time in his 40-plus years as an international star that Dylan has appeared in an ad campaign, although his "The Times They Are a Changin' " was used in a Bank of Montreal commercial in 1996.
Back then, Dylan was ripped for selling out. His association with ladies in lingerie, as opposed to some corporate entity, failed to produce much antipathy -- particularly in an era where Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel and Sting recently licensed songs for commercials.
But the strange mingling of Dylan and decolletage prompted plenty of comment, from a New York sports writer's Sunday column to various Internet chat rooms.
"On first glance, this is wrong on so many levels, but after viewing it I really admire Bob Dylan," wrote one Dylan fan in a chat room. "I only hope that when I reach Dylan's age someone approaches me to ask if I would like to be paid to fly to Venice and do a commercial with several supermodels."
Once you reach that level of acceptance, as Elsas observed, the Dylan spots don't seem so bad.
"What would you rather have Bob Dylan selling, ladies' underwear or cat food?" Elsas asked.
What the hell happened to this guy? He used to be a beatnik, challenging the man? Now he's selling bras and panties?
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/03/MNGRI608A81.DTL&type=printable
Dylan goes eclectic, appears in Victoria's Secret TV ad
Aidin Vaziri, Special to The Chronicle
Saturday, April 3, 2004
©2004 San Francisco Chronicle | Feedback | FAQ
URL: sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/03/MNGRI608A81.DTL
Forget Janet Jackson: The most controversial pop star on television right now is Bob Dylan, who made his first appearance in a television commercial last week -- for Victoria's Secret.
The spot, which first aired during Tuesday's "American Idol" broadcast, was shot at the Palazzo in Venice and features the '60s counterculture icon singing a remix of his 1997 song "Love Sick," flocked by scantily clad models with feathery angels' wings affixed to their backs. The 62-year-old sports a John Waters-like pencil moustache and eyeliner in the commercial.
Dylan fans immediately flooded Internet chat rooms to express outrage in impassioned rants, while the New York Post flatly labeled him its "sellout of the week."
According to Victoria's Secret Creative Director Ed Razek, the unlikely idea of having the former Robert Allen Zimmerman hawking lingerie came straight from the company Chairman and CEO Les Wexner.
"We had done some spots last year with Dylan's music, and they got a great response," Razek said Friday. "So Les asked, 'Do you think Dylan would do a commercial?' It was a stunningly bold idea. We called his management, they found a two-day hole in his schedule, and off we went to Venice."
While Dylan was unavailable for comment, Claire Mercuri, vice president of media relations at Columbia Records, said the label had no trouble with Dylan's side project: "We think this is a great way to reach people with Bob's music. We're thrilled that he said 'yes' when we asked him to be in the commercial."
In addition to the commercial -- Dylan's first in his 40-year career --
Victoria's Secret stores are also offering a nine-track CD of his songs for $10.
"I can't speak for his motivation, but it certainly wouldn't be commercial," Razek says.
also from CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/06/dylan.lingerie.ap/index.html
Latest Victoria's Secret model: Bob Dylan
Singer appearing in new series of ads
Tuesday, April 6, 2004 Posted: 9:54 AM EDT (1354 GMT)
Bob Dylan, as seen in the Victoria's Secret campaign.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New, from Victoria's Secret: the MiracleBob?
Bob Dylan appears in a new series of commercials for Victoria's Secret, his grizzled face intercut with shots of model Adriana Lima cavorting through Venice in a bra, panties and spike heels.
Don't worry. The 62-year-old Dylan keeps his clothes on.
Dylan's song "Love Sick," from his Grammy-winning 1997 album "Time Out of Mind," provides the musical backdrop for the spot, which airs in 15-, 30- and 60-second versions.
It promotes a new line of lingerie, the "Angels" collection -- which explains the wings on Lima's back as she prances across a palazzo near a Venetian canal.
"It's weird," said New York disc jockey Dennis Elsas, who's played Dylan music for three decades. "I would be hesitant to say it's awful or wonderful. It's just strange."
The commercials began airing a week ago, and will run for the next two weeks, said Ed Razek, chief creative officer for Victoria's Secret. The company experienced an immediate uptick in sales once the spots ran, he said.
Dylan was not a hard sell when approached about the campaign, Razek said. The company already had decided to use the song when its corporate boss, Les Wexner, suggested inviting Dylan himself.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer quickly agreed, although no one's quite sure why.
"I can't speculate to his reasons, I never talked to him about why he decided to come to the party, but he did," Razek said. "He's iconic, a living legend."
Dylan's spokesman did not return messages for comment about the campaign.
Little backlash
It's the first time in his 40-plus years as an international star that Dylan has appeared in an ad campaign, although his "The Times They Are a Changin' " was used in a Bank of Montreal commercial in 1996.
Back then, Dylan was ripped for selling out. His association with ladies in lingerie, as opposed to some corporate entity, failed to produce much antipathy -- particularly in an era where Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel and Sting recently licensed songs for commercials.
But the strange mingling of Dylan and decolletage prompted plenty of comment, from a New York sports writer's Sunday column to various Internet chat rooms.
"On first glance, this is wrong on so many levels, but after viewing it I really admire Bob Dylan," wrote one Dylan fan in a chat room. "I only hope that when I reach Dylan's age someone approaches me to ask if I would like to be paid to fly to Venice and do a commercial with several supermodels."
Once you reach that level of acceptance, as Elsas observed, the Dylan spots don't seem so bad.
"What would you rather have Bob Dylan selling, ladies' underwear or cat food?" Elsas asked.
