Sharpen up your PR skills...

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Imagine yourself with the thankless job of doing PR for a popstar prone to crass and offensive behaviour/lyrics, and having to explain everything away diplomatically. Example - Guns'n'Roses lyric "Immigrants and faggots, they make no sense to me, they come to our country and think they'll do what they please".
PR Spin - "Axl is expressing his sadness at the plight of refugees who naively believe that America offers a more tolerant society, particulary those who are persecuted in their homeland for their sexuality." Get good enough at this and you're P. "Get Back" McCartney

― dave q, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Working with Guns and Roses is a fate worse than death anyway. Having to listen to one of their songs might kill a man. Imagine having to do the PR spin to try and sell the record with the constant recurring message in your head "this is shite, this is shite, this is shite, axl is a knob, this is shite", what a rat you'd feel like for peddling such utter crap for such a mulleted bunch of fuckwits.

― Ronan Fitzgerald, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i read a great gay erotic story in an anthology edited by edmund white (i think) about how one in a million was axl's reaction to having to pimp his young queer ass to dribbling fuckers when he ran away from buttfuck montana to la - doesn't excuse it, but ti is kinda funny to think of axl down on his knees.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Geoff, doesn't that story have a basis in fact? I thought I read that Axl did hustle as a teenager. It isn't even difficult to believe. And, in retrospect, that first GnR album is a damn fine rock record.

― Sean, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This might relate to the thread. I love it when PR people are trying to put a stupid spin to mold an image of a band. The example comes to mind is when NSYNC is trying to break rumors of how manufactured they are so their publicists says that they actually did some of their own writing on the new album Celebrity. I say bullshit to that. I believe their influence was minimal at best.

― Luptune Pitman, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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