In what I see as a pretty unsurprising development but the
Times Of London sees as something that "contains much symbolic significance," Bob Dylan has endorsed Barack Obama's presidential candidacy. "Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval," he told the
Times. "Poverty is demoralizing. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up...Barack Obama. He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to." [
Times Online via
RS]
Dr Pepper has switched pitchmen, leaving
Internet sensation Tay Zonday behind and contracting Flavor Flav to lay down a track where his voice comes out of a soda can. "Dr Pepper is flavorlicious like me. Just like Dr Pepper, I add more to it," the Public Enemy hypeman told whatever poor intern had to write the press release for Dr Pepper. [
Hip Hop Press via
Wooohah!]
Idolator
If you were a multiplatinum artist and Grammy perennial like Alicia Keys, would you bother appearing in Fresh Takes, a Dove-sponsored "microseries" that runs during episodes of The Hills? Wouldn't roles in upcoming prestige pics with names like The Secret Life Of Bees and Composition In Black And White scratch your thespian itch enough that you can pass on dialogue like "my mom is on Facebook?!" Is that Dove money so sweet that you're cool working with Nick Lachey? Do you really want what's left of him?
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