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Roger Waters says he turned down a 'huge' Facebook offer to use a song
- mcraiha 5y agoSomewhat related, Microsoft paid Mick & Keith (of Rolling Stones) 3 million dollars for the "Start Me Up". And Mick & Keith rerecorded it so they didn't have to split the money with rest of the band https://www.networkworld.com/article/2220097/what-microsoft-paid-the-stones-to-help-launch-windows-95.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/2220097/what-microsoft-... https://twitter.com/JustinsBigIdea/status/1380665912211034117 https://twitter.com/JustinsBigIdea/status/138066591221103411...
- rednerrus 5y agoRoger Waters net worth is $310,000,000. There isn't a huge enough number.
- sschueller 5y agoFacebook is quite out of touch with reality if they thought Waters would let them use it. Additionally they also don't understand what the song is about.
- cblconfederate 5y agoHe should accept on condition that the song must be Pigs or Welcome to the machine
- ralph0 5y agoI was thinking the song would be "Comfortably Numb..."
- spywaregorilla 5y agoI pitch empty spaces. What will use to fill the empty spaces where we used to talk? FACEBOOK
- spywaregorilla 5y agoThat sucks. How will they effectively advertise the new instagram feature that allows you to feel a synthetic form of being connected while trapped behind a figurative/physical wall of fear and self isolation? Like... how would you use this song, non-ironically, for facebook? Who does this appeal to?
- jjeaff 5y agoMaybe they just liked the tune. A lot of people don't think very deeply about what a song means anyway. I remember that the high school senior class that graduated a year before mine had Brick in the Wall as their class song. Played at their graduation while walking out and everything. I don't think any of the administration had a clue what the song was about until it became a big talking points after graduation.
- spywaregorilla 5y agoMaybe, but do you really try to offer someone a huge amount of money just to play a tune you like?