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Beastie Boys: Toy Company Removes “Girls” Ad, Writes Open Letter To Beastie Boys

submitted by Nick Nov 27th 2013 05:00 pm (stereogum.com)

What counts as fair-use parody, and what counts as a simple advertisement? For the past few days, many of us have been arguing and wondering over those things, thanks to a viral toy commercial that put a feminist spin on the Beastie Boys’ ridiculously catchy 1986 lunkhead standard “Girls.” The YouTube commercial, from the Kickstarter-funded [...]

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submitted by Nick May 28th 2014 03:00 pm (stereogum.com)

Two years ago, just days after the death of Beastie Boys member Adam “MCA” Yauch, Monster Energy Drink featured five Beasties songs from Z-Trip’s Beasties Megamix in a promo video for a snowboarding event called Ruckus In The Rockies. The end of the video featured the phrase “RIP MCA” in the same...

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Beastie Boys: GoldieBlox Settles With And Apologizes To Beastie Boys For “Girls” Ad

submitted by Nick Mar 19th 2014 03:00 pm (stereogum.com)

Last year, GoldieBlox, a toy company that specializes in non-princessy toys for girls, made an online commercial that used a parody of the Beastie Boys’ 1986 lunkhead nugget “Girls,” flipping the lyrics to turn them feminist. You’d think this would be the sort of thing that the now-enlightened Beasties mig...

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