#the aughts promos are wild

[isabelleneville]

THE TUDORS (2007 - 2010) | Season One Subway Promotional Material

[insomniziam]

I’m not sure what your anon was referring to as far as a story from InTouch, because I actively avoid all that garbage, but I do agree it’s one of the more ridiculous and over-the-top tabloids. They’ve always made their nut on reality TV promo stunts, (big surprise that gokart’s family utilizes them) and rarely “breaking” stories.

To that, I’d hesitate to give much more credibility to stories from the other publications mentioned. Even if the stories are sold to them via publicists, it doesn’t make any of those stories any more or less true. TMZ certainly breaks major stories, but they’re still exploitative and chasing the bottom line.

Which leads me to holding back a rant on the alleged Zayn “bar fight” TMZ “broke” last year. Utter nonsense. In my opinion, that was completely staged and I sincerely don’t believe Zayn was in on it (or at least not entirely/truthfully).

This is probably an irrelevant tangent, but I lived in LA and worked in Beverly Hills for years in the mid aughts. Even then, celebrities calling paps on themselves wasn’t nearly as prevalent as it is now (as far as I know), but paps weren’t just hanging around waiting on the street corners. My best example is Posh and Becks being followed through the mall I worked in by a gaggle of paparazzi, and I’d never once seen a photographer there, while most of my American colleagues were like “who now?” Strange that the paps knew where to be just then?

I also lived in the East Village for years. My local bar was only a few blocks from where the Zayn incident occurred, and I encountered a-list celebrities on multiple occasions. One in particular was a pretty consistent regular as she was going through a high profile divorce, and I never once saw paparazzi in the vicinity. Had she wanted them to see her, surely they’d have been there? And even if she didn’t want them there, I could easily see headlines about her “going wild” or some other bullshit, considering she was in the same bar on multiple nights. But they obviously weren’t following her around without someone notifying them to. Clearly she actively wanted privacy and it wasn’t hard to get it, and just maybe she had management and publicists that supported as much?

I apologize for the long and largely irrelevant rant (I’ve genuinely edited myself, lol), but I guess my point is that none of these publications, including even more “credible” sources like Vanity Fair and Vogue, should be entirely trusted. This is all a business, and publicists and management largely control the narratives.

(Unrelated, I totally agree that T and Z are just friends. I’m an old, and I thought as much with OG Tobey and Kirsten when that was happening.)

Hi, I hope you don't mind me answering this publicly but I think you've made some rather good points that I think should be shared!

I probably should have clarified a little in my previous ask when I said that the Daily Mail and the Sun are more credibly, I meant in terms of pushing the narrative. Because of course everything they say is complete bullshit, but at least with them they actually push the narrative that his team want everyone to believe.

And I am not at all surprised on what you've stipulated in regards to the paparazzi, but it's good to get yet another confirmation. People don't realise how this industry has evolved over time, and they just believe whatever the celeb they stan says.

Fair warning this gets long, and I get mad because shit like this involving children really pisses me off

The fact that this woman was covered head to toe with a face mask making her completely unrecognisable to everyone else should be enough evidence to see that she called them.

She puts up this paragraph about wanting to protect her child's privacy and pleading with the paparazzi to blur her face when she is the one calling them, taking her daughter for a stroll, looking directly at them, walking closer toward them and then pulling the hood down so that little girl's face is directly in the eyeline of their cameras.

The audacity of this woman to act like she gives a shit about that little girl's privacy when she is constantly posting photos of her, letting her family use her for promo (at her first fucking birthday, mind you) for a shitty drink no one could give two fucks about, and worst of all calling the paparazzi to take photos of her, is absolutely astounding.

And her fans ignore it as if there's nothing wrong with what she's doing. Or they just use Yolanda as a scapegoat - everything is Yolanda's fault, as if G has no say in who gets to be around her daughter, or has no say on what happens in her own relationships as a grown ass woman. Sorry if that lame excuse doesn't work on me.

This isn't about Zayn at this point, this is a about someone using an innocent baby girl as a promotional tool for modelling campaigns. Blatant child exploitation, as bad as the Kardashian/Jenner clan, except G likes to act like she's the better person and show that she actually cares when her actions show the exact opposite

I hope this baby's father - whoever that is - steps in and says enough is enough. Because what they're doing with that poor baby girl is nothing short of sickening, and people need to start calling it out.

(and cheers about T and Z. I'm glad to see that not everyone is completely gullible)

[dustedmagazine]

Gang of Four — 77-81 (Matador)

Back in the aughts, when a flurry of bands made it known that they considered Gang of Four a primary influence, what was interesting was how little of them actually sounded like that band. Sure, they might have copped the angular rhythms, the sharp guitars, the growling bass, the crisscrossing chants, but no one got at the core. At their best, as documented in this four disc retrospective, Gang of Four was both uncompromisingly austere and hedonistic. The lyrics drew from Marxist theory, the drums rumbled and battered like an oncoming earthquake, the guitar chords snapped so hard you could feel a whip crack and the bass, holy god, how about that bass. And while the band played with a nearly military precision, it was also a good time. Look at Jon King up there in that 1980 live version of “To Hell With Poverty” dancing like a rubber-ized cartoon character with no bones at all; you could party to this stuff, hard and unyielding as it was.

Indeed, 40 years on, no band on earth has ever really sounded like Gang of Four, including, at least in recent years, Gang of Four itself.  And to celebrate that achievement, Matador has put together a really kick-ass box set, comprised of the first two albums, a collection of late 1970s singles and a live set from May 22, 1980 performed at the American Indian Center in San Francisco. The collection documents the band’s first and best recorded material, made with the original line up of Jon King, Andy Gill, Hugo Burnham and bassist Dave Allen (who left the band in 1981 to form Shriekback).

Entertainment!, released in 1979, is undoubtedly the band’s best album, distilling their volatile mix of robotized funk beats, terse shrieks of guitar and rampaging, stalking, menacing bass on the first trip out of the gate. It contains nearly all their best known songs, “Damaged Goods” and “Love Like Anthrax,” the band’s blistering first single, “Ether” its stinging indictment of British treatment of Irish political prisoners, the antic staccato war protest, “Guns and Butter,” the moony, melodica-laced “5.45” and the galloping hit, “At Home He Feels Like a Tourist.” This latter song was their highest ranking hit at #58 on the UK charts, and the one that infamously got the band kicked off Top of the Pops. The NME named Entertainment! its number five album for 1979, and its reputation has, if anything, only solidified. The Matador reissue adds nothing to the original—no demos or bonus materials—but why mess with the ideal?

The box set also includes Gang of Four’s 1981 second album, Solid Gold, with strung out and dubby “Paralysed,” lingering in eerie echoes, “What We All Want” inexorable in its dour tromp and thunder, the odd, jokey “Cheeseburger” and “He’d Send in the Army,” which alternates from minimalist scrawl to sharp-edged, guitar-stropped roar. The music is snarled and taut and misanthropic, good but not as good as Entertainment!

Another disc collects seven singles from the 1977-1981 period. First and best is “To Hell with Poverty,” with its sirening guitars, its walloping forward motion, its wild cackling “oh-oh-ohs.” It is somehow, both tightly restrained and thrillingly close to the edge of control. It is, of course, political, as are all the singles; there are no bubblegum Gang of Four songs. “It’s Her Factory” pokes at gender equity and the unpaid nature of housework, “Capital (It Fails Us Now)” satirizes material success and failure, “Cheeseburger,” takes the piss at American-style capitalism.   

All of this music so far has been widely available, but the final disc is a rare live recording of Gang of Four at the American Indian Center in San Francisco dating from May 22, 1980. Gang of Four has always been an astounding live band—their reunion show in 2004 was one of the best I’ve ever seen—and so this record of their heyday prowess ought to be a highlight. And indeed, from the opening blast of “Not Great Men” through the frenetic anthemry of “Glass,” you get a sense of the sweat and friction and tightly reined chaos of Gang of Four in concert. The recording quality isn’t that great, which blunts the edges a bit, but it does give the general sense of the wind-up-machinery-on-a-rampage menace of the original four members.

The four discs are packaged with extensive liner notes, including essays from members of contemporary bands (Mission of Burma, Pylon, Henry Rollins, R.E.M. etc.), lyrics, explanatory notes and lots of photos.  Two cassettes of demos weren’t included in the review promo, but if you buy the box, you’ll get those, too. It’s a lot of Gang of Four, and if you’re interested at all, you probably already have a good portion of it. Still, it’s a nicely packaged set from the best years of the career of one of post-punk’s best ever bands. What’s not to love? 

Jennifer Kelly

[roleplcyheaux]

Your name and pronouns:

asha! she/her pronouns! 

Your favorite movie / tv show at the moment:

i did recently binge I May Destroy You and it was *chef’s kiss*. i’ve also been re-watching Girlfriends on Netflix too because Tracee Ellis Ross is truly worth it! if you haven’t watched it before i def recommend it though....yanno it’s an late 90′s-early aughts show so some of the jokes haven't aged well. last but not least i’ve been watching this K-Drama called Flower of Evil too and oh my gooooosh i couldn’t rec it more!!!! the plot basically centers around this couple where wife is a successful detective and the husband???? well he is the “missing” son of a serial killer ( daddy dearest killed like 10 people i think??) whose accused of not falling far from the tree himself ( when he was senior in hs he disappeared from his small town right after the sheriff was mysteriously murdered hmmmm ). but of course the wife doesn’t know that and now there is a copy-cat killer running around risking the husband’s new life AND IT’S WILD AND SO GOOD!!! also they have a daughter who is literally too pure and too cute for this earth! 

Why are you interested in joining the roleplay?

i’m a sucker for the horror / mystery genre!!!!! which....if you know me you’d know is odd cause i’m highkey a scardy cat but like horror movies are completely different than books and rps okay?!?! okay!  this place also seems so thoroughly thought out and i can tell how much love and thought went into this and i would love nothing more than to help frankie bring it to life!!! i’m not in any rps right now ( well one discord based one ) and i’d love to hop back in now that life has mellowed out!

Tell us a little about the character you’re thinking of applying for:

much like many of the fine people below me, i’m kinda stuck between two muses?!?! but i’m sure i’ll make my decision soon or idk maybe i can cop out and you guys can tell me who you’d prefer to see??

abigail ‘abby’ alby, twenty-six, aspiring novelist / manager @ spotlight cinema. the youngest of george alby’s grandchildren, abigail came into the world with a silver spoon hanging from her infant lips. she’s never needed for anything and essentially grew up coddled and protected from the world around her. very gullible & naive. glides through life in rose-tinted glasses. can and probably will cry at the drop of hat. is still waiting for harry styles to accept her marriage proposal tbh. known as a cursed hopeless romantic around town. leave a guy at the alter once and suddenly no one wants to date you :( :( :( [ definitely inspired by the only lovers left alive open plot! ]

isobel ‘issy’ bishop, twenty-five, dispatcher at pleasance fd. issy was left on the sidewalk in front of the fire station at three days old. no one knows where she came from or who her parents could possibly be. rather than following protocol and calling child services, the fire chief at the time allowed one of his firefighters to take the bundle of joy home. growing up with the bishops was chaotic to say the least but in the best way possible? issy grew up with seven siblings in total and four family pets. you could say her adoptive parents had a hard time NOT taking in those in need. most of her siblings have gotten out of pleasance but isobel’s curiosity keeps her within town limits. [ mayhaps issy could be involved in the mystery gang! but also i wouldn’t put it past her to work solo either so! ]

Do you have any potential wanted connections? 

um um um if i decide to bring in abby i’d love some more albys lurking around for her to bug?? mayhaps her ex-fiancee that she left at the alter ( she definitely ghosted after the fact and still hasn’t really given him an explanation)??? i’d love her to have childhood friends who she’s remained close to!! or people who hate her family, i mean family feuds are fun! if i bring in isobel i’d definitely love to see her eccentric parents! and a couple of her siblings too! most of them left but i’m sure there are still a couple around for one reason or another! the bishops are a very mismatch family of misfits who dance to the beat of their own drum so and issy loves them all dearly even if they embarrass her/give her headaches sometimes! 

Any self-promos?:

idk i don’t have anything to promo really?!?!!? but if you’re reading this ily and i hope you’re having a good day!

[realwhitegold]

i recently realized that i haven’t talked nearly enough about my favorite football commercial of all time, the commercial of my heart. i’d like to deeply apologize for that, and for anyone who might not have seen this masterpiece from 2003 (the date in the youtube description is wrong) before due to my silence. please enjoy what is truly the greatest work of commercial art, and art of any kind, of our times, featuring:

peak early aughts feathered hair heartthrob beckham

raul as the noblest, most put-upon sheriff in the west (with blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameos from hierro, mori, and GUTI) 

tiny arrogant smooth-cheeked baby iker

rivaldo as the man-in-black outlaw?????!!!!

oh and gary neville is there too, “acting”

seriously you guys this whole thing is a giant becksillas wild west fanfic come to life how did this exist almost A YEAR before beckham moved to madrid 

wait wait wait but the end is probably the best part 

HI ROBERTO CARLOS - please call becks a gringo again thnx

do i have a million dumb promo and behind the scenes photos taken from this commercial? am i going to be posting them here forever because nothing makes a bad day better than seeing roberto carlos splayed out like the crankiest forties pinup girl ever, or raul and the team giggling like fifteen year olds playing their first round of strip poker? 

come on. you guys should know me by now.

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Huffington Post: 'My Super Sweet 16' Is Returning To MTV

“My Super Sweet 16,” perhaps the best show of the early aughts, is making a comeback.

The reality show, which originally launched in 2005, features the wild and crazy antics of teens as they prepare for the biggest parties of their young lives.

MTV announced the revival of the iconic series via an email blast from casting company Doron Ofir, indicating that they’re looking for girls and boys planning a “Sweet Sixteen, Quinceanera, Debutante Ball, Debut, or any other coming of age milestone event.”

“If it’s going to be lit, we want to know about it!” the email reads. 

Fans of the original “My Super Sweet 16” series will likely remember the infamous characters that came out of the mere 61 episodes. We were given incredible cameos from the likes of Bow Wow, Sean Kingston, Aly and AJ, Chris Brown and Soulja Boy. 

We were given Teyana Taylor.

We were given Jennifer Lawrence promo commercials.

There can only be more gold to come. Thank you, MTV, for this gift.

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Huffington Post: 'My Super Sweet 16' Is Returning To MTV

“My Super Sweet 16,” perhaps the best show of the early aughts, is making a comeback.

The reality show, which originally launched in 2005, features the wild and crazy antics of teens as they prepare for the biggest parties of their young lives.

MTV announced the revival of the iconic series via an email blast from casting company Doron Ofir, indicating that they’re looking for girls and boys planning a “Sweet Sixteen, Quinceanera, Debutante Ball, Debut, or any other coming of age milestone event.”

“If it’s going to be lit, we want to know about it!” the email reads. 

Fans of the original “My Super Sweet 16” series will likely remember the infamous characters that came out of the mere 61 episodes. We were given incredible cameos from the likes of Bow Wow, Sean Kingston, Aly and AJ, Chris Brown and Soulja Boy. 

We were given Teyana Taylor.

We were given Jennifer Lawrence promo commercials.

There can only be more gold to come. Thank you, MTV, for this gift.

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Huffington Post: 'My Super Sweet 16' Is Returning To MTV

“My Super Sweet 16,” perhaps the best show of the early aughts, is making a comeback.

The reality show, which originally launched in 2005, features the wild and crazy antics of teens as they prepare for the biggest parties of their young lives.

MTV announced the revival of the iconic series via an email blast from casting company Doron Ofir, indicating that they’re looking for girls and boys planning a “Sweet Sixteen, Quinceanera, Debutante Ball, Debut, or any other coming of age milestone event.”

“If it’s going to be lit, we want to know about it!” the email reads. 

Fans of the original “My Super Sweet 16” series will likely remember the infamous characters that came out of the mere 61 episodes. We were given incredible cameos from the likes of Bow Wow, Sean Kingston, Aly and AJ, Chris Brown and Soulja Boy. 

We were given Teyana Taylor.

We were given Jennifer Lawrence promo commercials.

There can only be more gold to come. Thank you, MTV, for this gift.

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