Today I saw a Chevrolet billboard ad for the Corvette and it showed the lower back end (side view) of a Red Corvette and the caption to the right said "Little Red Corvette. Baby you're much too fast". Here's the kicker, right underneath the caption was the symbol ! Is this a technicality for them to use the phrase or are they confused? Maybe the person in charge of that campaign is a hardcore P fan

NO WAY!?



(just teasing you...)

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

It could be that since it's trademarked there's mas dinero para Prince.



I see you yankin' those chains, SupaFunkyOne...

i just saw that billboard this mawnin!!! i wuz like, "what the--!" the folks at chevy are late...

Super, this is no yank. I swear, there was a symbol right under the caption.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

where've you been? there's been a poll on the front page of this website asking opinions about it for about 2 months now

so prince finally sold out?~

subyduby said:

Sold, nothing. Warners owns that song, and when Prince left the label, he went by . Simple.

tommyalma said:

Warner Bros. doesn't own that song. Prince does. they only own the original sound recording of it.

Prince owns the publishing for it, which is now administered by Universal.

if anyone sold out, it's Prince. it would have been his decision.

AaronForever said:

So Warners has nothing at all to do with his back catalogue? Is this different because it's a quote, not the actual song?
[This message was edited Mon Sep 30 11:59:46 PDT 2002 by tommyalma]

It's because they're his lyrics (a publishing issue), and has nothing to do with the sound recording.

tommyalma said:

it's because it's a quote, yes. Warner Bros. only lays claim to the acutual sound recordings that were released under that contract. all of Prince's publishing ties with Warner Bros. expired in 1999. His publishing is handled by Universal now.

AaronForever said:

When I participated in the poll I only heard about the TV ad so my response to the poll was "haven't seen it yet"

This is the first time I have seen an ad for this campaign

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

actually, i don't think there is a TV ad. i believe it's solely a billboard (and maybe print) campaign

AaronForever said:

When I participated in the poll I only heard about the TV ad so my response to the poll was "haven't seen it yet"

This is the first time I have seen an ad for this campaign [/quote]


actually, i don't think there is a TV ad. i believe it's solely a billboard (and maybe print) campaign[/quote]

Guess that explains why I never saw a TV commercial

I think I've seen it in a magazine, too. Rolling Stone or SPIN, was it?

That is sooo three months ago.