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What is it with this country, the colonel wants to sponsor NZ Music ? Fuck Off !!! You wanna be corporate whore for captialist gangbang, go be corporate whore !!! The whole idea with your music, the music you believe in, is to make itself a brand like Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Kiss ! It's not about brands sponsoring you, you using your supposed star power to sell Air Guitar III and Beer And Whoppers and Pepsi and World Famous Cheese Omelette's !!! It's about building yourself up to where you are brand and you can smear your own corporate band / brand logo on most everything from I don't know toaster ovens to lawn furniture !!! Fucking problem is in this piece of loser shit island nation is nobody wants to be pez dispenser ...

Mephisto sums up alot of attitudes I agree with, although personally I think NZ Music Month is beneficial, its just the way they are going about it. KFC - WTF!? Thousands of bands in NZ are doing great things, genre defying, beat bending, breaking the mould of conservative pop shit, but where is their exposure? Would Split Enz have got NZOA funding if NZ Music Month had been around? Hell No. But look where they got. Rather than NZOA being bullied by the Record Label bosses to support shit that will sell their albums, I would choose Mike Chunn (Play It Strange), John Toogood (Shihad) and Daniel Haimona (Dam Native) for the panel that promotes potential future famous NZ up & coming bands and hands out the cash to give them exposure during NZ Music Month.

Christianity - Having seen many musicians struggle to make a living, Im in favour of them making a buck where ever possible, but being a whore to KFC is well different to being supported by the government.

Colonel Sanders for prime minister LOL

i'm not 31. you are not taking the piss.

"this seems like a good opportunity for unsigned bands to get heard, but at what cost? And to what benefit of KFC? "

at what cost?

aren't you afraid you're gonna lose your job posting this stuff about your employer??

you sum it up well. i mean, what's your case? kfc have a lot of money to throw at the venture, and that's not money they should be using to keep crime off the streets, that's money they could be using to give chickens a better life but most importantly it's money they have freewill to use or not use. I am providing you with your D.A, but you're not backing yourself up. This is your debate sunshine.

"Sounds of your Hometown" leading into NZ Music Month where you vote for your favourite unsigned regional band. The band with the most votes is selected to play at their local KFC and gets judged by record company reps, the winner of which receives $15000 towards recording, promotion etc.

but at what cost?"

the entrance fee?
being reembered as the band that won the KFC competition
and forever to be associated with chicken exploitation in the minds of chicken rights advocates

"Surely this endorsement from Kiwi musicians of KFC is great for KFC,"
- it's sponsorship. How many bands in the smokefree rockquest smoked?

"but how many musicians actually eat KFC,"

-How many of the black caps bank with the national bank?

let alone believe this is a good company to align with.

basically mephisto, beggars can't be choosers. musicians are beggars or buskers, or sponsored or signed.

"Will KFC's morals be offset by supporting Kiwi music..."

is this religious fervor. morals? offset?

"the minimum wage and caged battery farmed chickens forgotten."

and that's where you're completely wrong. Because this stuff is common knowledge. you only have to walk into a kfc, to be greeted by the stench of minimum wage, the colonel''s battery farms are no well kept secret. and NZMUSIC is bringing that to the fore. you personally are doing that. and the idiot replies see to it that your thread gets more traffic.

"Are they truly passionate about supporting NZ Music?"

yes

"I regard NZ Music as the best the world has to offer - something sacrosanct, beautiful, honest, expressive and natural"

some nz music is pretty damn good

"when many see KFC as a Global Corporation polluting the world with rubbish and obesity."

well that's not likely to change fast. and you'd have more chance of having any kind of influence there, by working your way up through the company.

"Does NZ musics integrity get degraded by such a marriage of conflicting goals."

I don't think so, like you said, sacrosanct, beautiful, honest, expressive and natural. I don't see any kind of degradation. think the new GnR, think buckethead, that's degradation.

"Does KFC's ulterior motive bother the discerning public in NZ or more to the point internationally."

their ulterior motive is advertising, they've been using your tv to do it for many a year. exploiting your TV to make more money.

"Is there not a NZ company with enough money that would be better suited to sponsor this event?"

obviously not

are you a musician mephisto?

apologies.

colonel's music sponsorship unethical. nice pie chart. are you guys a tag team?

If I may quote Judith Tizard the Associate Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister, who, deputising for the prime minister at the launch of NZMUSIC month at Wellington bar Matterhorn, leapt at the chance to join Knox on stage, was unfamiliar with the lyrics - and later struggled to complete The Dominion Post's 10 multiple-choice questions about Kiwi music. When told she had answered only four of the questions correctly, she said: "I don't know the details, honey; I just write the policy and ask for the money."

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