Laurie Berkner Does Have Nice Hair
Sometimes I get stuff in my inbox and don't get a chance to post until the next day. So in today's first example, I present to you Laurie Berkner's Soundcheck performance. Now, some people have spent almost as much time talking about the sponsor -- SUAVE! A Unilever brand! Plus Walmart! -- as on the show.
And so in response, I'll probably do the same. To be clear, aside from a five-second ad at the start of the full performance and a tiny logo in the lower right-hand corner and occasional glimpses of "Suave" from the rotating camera, it's definitely not a hard-sell. I'm not a fan of corporate sponsorship -- as far as corporate sponsorships go, this isn't bad.
Anyway, tracklist for the 20-minute video is after the jump. There are four videos from this week's release Rocketship Run, plus two Laurie classics. The interview, as others have mentioned, is worth watching.
1. Candy Cane Jane
2. Going On a Hunt
3. Mouse In My Toolbox
4. Rocketship Run
5. Victor Vito
6. We Are the Dinosaurs
Comments
Hey - I only devoted five words of a fifty word post to the sponsor aspect :)
I agree, not a hard sell AND not marketing directed to kids, which pleases me.
Posted by: GBK Gwyneth | August 6, 2008 09:53 AM
For me, it's the implicit -- well, actually it's pretty explicit -- message that Mommy's not as pretty as she used to be. It could certainly be worse, and I, too, am I guess glad it's not aimed directly at kids, but I find it fairly obnoxious.
Posted by: Bill Childs | August 6, 2008 11:17 AM
No more obnoxious than any other ad in any other parenting magazine.
And, frankly, I probably take just as much offense at the idea that women are the only ones likely to listen to kids music and be involved with their kids.
Neither notion is uncommon, and neither notion is correct, but there you go.
Posted by: Stefan | August 6, 2008 09:30 PM
Certainly true, but are kids expected to read Parenting magazines? These videos are clearly designed to be watched by kids.
Posted by: Bill Childs | August 7, 2008 04:26 AM