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Post by ariane on Aug 18, 2006 11:13:31 GMT -5
I have a friend in England. She knows Owen exists (ok, I am to blame..) and she likes the few songs I've send her (not the complete albums of course!!!). Yesterday she came up with that Orange ad - this is what she wrote: "Whoa, you know there's this ad on tv. It's for a wireless service provider by the name of Orange. They've put an abs wonderful song in the background. There's this chap singing and I love his voice oh so much. You really should see this. I'm gonna try and find it on youtube. You'd love it!..." This is the short version of what I've got, there was much more (some lines of the song included..) I told her it's Owen and ehm, her reaction was kinda like this:  ;D  She said now there's no way for her not to buy his albums ;D WELL DONE OWEN! xxx Ariane |
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Post by spidey on Aug 20, 2006 2:47:36 GMT -5
YAY  |
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Post by pieter on Aug 20, 2006 3:01:18 GMT -5
So they used it anyway, without Owen's permission??
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Post by ariane on Aug 20, 2006 3:03:59 GMT -5
They did.
But I think they solved it all pretty well..
Owen (on this message board):
"My cut of the money is going to Doctors Without Borders. Tomlab are likely giving their cut away as well. I hope everybody is satisfied with this arrangement."
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Post by pieter on Aug 20, 2006 3:13:59 GMT -5
A very nice way to solve it indeed
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Post by spidey on Aug 20, 2006 11:13:18 GMT -5
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Post by spidey on Aug 20, 2006 11:16:30 GMT -5
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Post by ariane on Aug 20, 2006 12:33:30 GMT -5
Good to see it's not only my friend who likes it |
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Post by gemma on Aug 20, 2006 19:39:36 GMT -5
I like that is attracting a lot more people to Owen, but at the same time I think a good percentage of those people will be wankers. It's a nice advert though, classy.
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Post by jules on Aug 21, 2006 1:55:38 GMT -5
I like that is attracting a lot more people to Owen, but at the same time I think a good percentage of those people will be wankers. It's a nice advert though, classy. Sorry Gemma, but I'm not sure if people’s personal habits have anything to do with whether they should be allowed to like music or not. If Owen was to become the next Tom Jones wouldn't affect whether I liked the music or not and I'm sure he does a mean "Delilah" anyway  |
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Post by jollyness on Aug 22, 2006 4:40:19 GMT -5
paperdreams - where is owens message board please?
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Post by ariane on Aug 22, 2006 7:14:23 GMT -5
Where his message board is?  I wrote: Owen (on this message board) or...are you referring to something esle? I'm sorry I have no idea what you mean..  |
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Post by jollyness on Aug 22, 2006 8:02:37 GMT -5
Oh, no. Im the one being dumb. dont worry. doh : )
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Post by jollyness on Aug 24, 2006 6:31:10 GMT -5
Jo Whiley (*spits at name mention) just talked about the orange advert, explained who FF was and the name of the song!! People have obviously been emailing in about it.
A woman at work just said to me, "julene, have you seen that great advert?"
Oh god. He is going to do so well. Straight down the slippery slope into the mainstream. Quick Owen make a record where you just bash your violin against a pillow so we can keep you to ourselves.
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Post by cassiacat on Aug 24, 2006 11:08:43 GMT -5
Nah, Owen will never be mainstream. People only like Adventure.exe because it's the most normal, singer-songwritery, pop-ish song he's written. Once they hear the rest of the album, they'll be like, 'Oh...this is weird.' And his artistic integrity will remain intact.
/tongue in cheek
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