Scott????? Did this happen while you were in the hospital?????
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I just think people complain about the dumbest crap. "Offended" by a Camaro being in a video with...OMG, profanity and those evil evil black people. What the hell do you care if a Camaro is in a rap video. Like it is any worse than the rednecks with the clapped out 3rd gens with tires hanging 65" out the fedners.
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i think its awesome... its getting chevy some easy publicity. I also think it was awesome to have the new impalla in there too. Maybe it will now join the donks, bubbles, and boxes that are what everyones "pimpin" now. I think its stupid to get all bent out of shape over this, i mean what is it hurting?
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That video is PDF.
I don't listen to hard rap and I'm not a big fan of what it portrays as far as setting stereotypes, and I've never heard of these guys. But the things in this video is so over the top, it's almost a comedy.
With rap now popular even with teens in the suburbs, and even Eminem having almost as much street cred as Dr Dre and Snoop Dog (who gave the Chrysler 300 instant celebrity by leaving a message for CEO Dieter Zetsche trying to get one), it probally is going to do far more good than harm for Chevrolet being in this video.
If you get mad at this video's use of Chevrolets, just remember, having rednecks wearing greesy ballcaps doing unrealistic hundred foot jumps over dirt piles yelling "YeeeHaw", while equally silly and cartoonish, isn't going to inspire kids & young adults in the suburbs and cities (where most of the population lives nowadays) to think a certain car is cool anymore.
I don't listen to hard rap and I'm not a big fan of what it portrays as far as setting stereotypes, and I've never heard of these guys. But the things in this video is so over the top, it's almost a comedy.
With rap now popular even with teens in the suburbs, and even Eminem having almost as much street cred as Dr Dre and Snoop Dog (who gave the Chrysler 300 instant celebrity by leaving a message for CEO Dieter Zetsche trying to get one), it probally is going to do far more good than harm for Chevrolet being in this video.
If you get mad at this video's use of Chevrolets, just remember, having rednecks wearing greesy ballcaps doing unrealistic hundred foot jumps over dirt piles yelling "YeeeHaw", while equally silly and cartoonish, isn't going to inspire kids & young adults in the suburbs and cities (where most of the population lives nowadays) to think a certain car is cool anymore.
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While it is in NO way to my taste musically and I think those cars sitting super high on giant wheels looks stupid, it doesn't bother me they used the Camaro in it. If anything it's a good thing.
But then again, I can't stand country music either. So a music video with a bunch of country bumpkins or rednecks all over the Camaro wouldn't appeal to me either. LOL I'd actually say the 'look' of the Camaro is actually more fitting to the rap video than anything countrylike. BUT I'm pretty sure no one would get bent out of shape if the Camaro was in a video for Garth Brookes or Tim McGraw. (LOL I won't even allow my radio's station scanner to hesitate on a country station. Ugh.)
Modern, slick, sharp, hip, powerful, menacing, in-your-face. They're all words that describe the new Camaro. And, imo, the only type of music that is 'modern, slick, sharp' is techno/electronica. So I'd like to see the Camaro in a music video with a nice thumping dance/techno beat myself.
But I'm sure I'm one of the few here that would enjoy that.
But then again, I can't stand country music either. So a music video with a bunch of country bumpkins or rednecks all over the Camaro wouldn't appeal to me either. LOL I'd actually say the 'look' of the Camaro is actually more fitting to the rap video than anything countrylike. BUT I'm pretty sure no one would get bent out of shape if the Camaro was in a video for Garth Brookes or Tim McGraw. (LOL I won't even allow my radio's station scanner to hesitate on a country station. Ugh.)
Modern, slick, sharp, hip, powerful, menacing, in-your-face. They're all words that describe the new Camaro. And, imo, the only type of music that is 'modern, slick, sharp' is techno/electronica. So I'd like to see the Camaro in a music video with a nice thumping dance/techno beat myself.
But I'm sure I'm one of the few here that would enjoy that.
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While it is in NO way to my taste musically and I think those cars sitting super high on giant wheels looks stupid, it doesn't bother me they used the Camaro in it. If anything it's a good thing.
But then again, I can't stand country music either. So a music video with a bunch of country bumpkins or rednecks all over the Camaro wouldn't appeal to me either. LOL I'd actually say the 'look' of the Camaro is actually more fitting to the rap video than anything countrylike. BUT I'm pretty sure no one would get bent out of shape if the Camaro was in a video for Garth Brookes or Tim McGraw. (LOL I won't even allow my radio's station scanner to hesitate on a country station. Ugh.)
Modern, slick, sharp, hip, powerful, menacing, in-your-face. They're all words that describe the new Camaro. And, imo, the only type of music that is 'modern, slick, sharp' is techno/electronica. So I'd like to see the Camaro in a music video with a nice thumping dance/techno beat myself. But I'm sure I'm one of the few here that would enjoy that.
But then again, I can't stand country music either. So a music video with a bunch of country bumpkins or rednecks all over the Camaro wouldn't appeal to me either. LOL I'd actually say the 'look' of the Camaro is actually more fitting to the rap video than anything countrylike. BUT I'm pretty sure no one would get bent out of shape if the Camaro was in a video for Garth Brookes or Tim McGraw. (LOL I won't even allow my radio's station scanner to hesitate on a country station. Ugh.)
Modern, slick, sharp, hip, powerful, menacing, in-your-face. They're all words that describe the new Camaro. And, imo, the only type of music that is 'modern, slick, sharp' is techno/electronica. So I'd like to see the Camaro in a music video with a nice thumping dance/techno beat myself.
But I'm sure I'm one of the few here that would enjoy that.I do agree on the overall country sentiment though... ugh...
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Theirs been Escalades, H1's, and H2's in music videos for a long time now, and I doubt anybody has not bought 1 because of that. If anything, its probably sparked thousands of sales.
and some of those artists on that song are actually quite popular
and some of those artists on that song are actually quite popular
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The difference here is that those vehicles could have been aquired for the video in a variety of different ways. In order for the concept to be in the video, they had to have GM's approval and probably had security from GM on set of the video during the shoot. I just think it is a bit of a strange decision on GM's part.
