Comments on: Selling Jack Black – image is EVERYTHING! http://ramonamac.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/selling-jack-black-image-is-everything/ 'top 40' music misses all the good stuff Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:25:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: corneliustbor http://ramonamac.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/selling-jack-black-image-is-everything/#comment-92 corneliustbor Tue, 27 May 2008 12:25:08 +0000 http://ramonamac.wordpress.com/?p=62#comment-92 I find it amazing that what I originally took as a joke band akin to Weird Al Yankovic's less-than-serious covers, Tenacious D are actually entertaining and write some pretty great songs. The vulgarity and obscenity within some of their lyrics isn't something I'd normally appreciate, and outside the context of the band's performance I doubt I'd listen to such rubbish for long before I switched it off. But for their faults, the Rage Kage and JB rock out with their ... you get the idea. I wonder though; how do you market two plus-size gentleman of unremarkable physical stature and appeal within the realms of top 40 pop-sheen and plastic bodied imbeciles successfully? I guess a movie or two helps, as well as a growing fanbase that appreciates a bit of dirty humour. And we all know it's because of Dio! I find it amazing that what I originally took as a joke band akin to Weird Al Yankovic’s less-than-serious covers, Tenacious D are actually entertaining and write some pretty great songs. The vulgarity and obscenity within some of their lyrics isn’t something I’d normally appreciate, and outside the context of the band’s performance I doubt I’d listen to such rubbish for long before I switched it off. But for their faults, the Rage Kage and JB rock out with their … you get the idea.

I wonder though; how do you market two plus-size gentleman of unremarkable physical stature and appeal within the realms of top 40 pop-sheen and plastic bodied imbeciles successfully? I guess a movie or two helps, as well as a growing fanbase that appreciates a bit of dirty humour. And we all know it’s because of Dio!

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