Hey. A friend in Boston took this picture of a billboard for the infamous Little Red Corvette ads from Chevrolet. I've yet to see the ads personally-- tv or print. Here's a link to a picture of the billboard ad for those interested.

http://www.uofl.edu/~kbob...rvette.jpg

Don't "flame me" if some already posted a pic, please. I didn't feel like spending 20 minutes searching through miscellaneous posts.

Oh, and, the pic is located on my school website. I just graduated, so that site might not be available too much longer. If the link doesn't work in the near future, you'll know why.

-neokyle

Thanks for posting this, I for one hadn't seen it before since I live in Europe. Now I can take part in discuccions about it! Thank you Kyle!

Jen

interesting: the company who posted the billboard is Clear Channel.

anyone notice it credits the song to 0(+> ??? hmmm

mrchristian said:

Yeah, that's what I find most disturbing, not the actual billboard. I don't remember seeing their name on the same Corvette billboards in my neighborhood.

Mr. Christian...very funny...that's the second thing I noticed, and was about 2 post the same observation!

interesting in the " you're much 2 fast "
they used the "2" instead of "too", but didn't use the "U" instead of "you"...

Congrats on your graduation.

Supernova said:

In his defense, it was likely Chevy who had the ad placed, not P--but i still thought it was interesting.

mrchristian said:

Actually I wasn't wondering about who place the ad, that's pretty obvious. I just wonder if Clear Channel has anything to do with it.

If billboards are the same all over...Clear Channel owns the billboard itself. The ads will change, but the board belongs to Clear Channel.

Yeah, I just found that out. Making it even more dubious.

Not really Supernova. Clear Channel won't play Prince's music because he's not in the label game and the label pays Clear Channel $$ to pay their "music." Clear Channel will put a quote of a Prince lyric on one of their billboard 'cause Chevy paid them to do so.

Business.

Nothinbutjoy said:

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Where is that edit button?

Pay=play their music

but I guess you figured that out ya big smarty!

Business=dubious? Pretty much!

Thanks neokyle

Nothinbutjoy said:

I suggest you do a search to find out what Clear Channel's practices are like, if you don't understand. Dubious in more ways than one, indeed.

Thank U neokyle, 'twas very nice of u 2 post the pic.

I didn't think they could use the symbol without Prince's permission...or did he give it to them?

Odd use of it in any case, since the song is written by "Prince"...

Yep, these are in Boston too.

We've got them in Detroit too (go figure )

they should have:

-credited prince in stead of symbol
-changed the 'you' into a 'U'

nice billboard though.