Sometimes, product placement is not a good idea. In fact, I would go so far as to argue that product placement has no business in truly artistic ventures. Advertising is one thing, but name-dropping specific products? Don’t do it. Especially if you are Kanye West, standing on the red carpet at the MTV VMAs, insisting that your entire posse “hit the Henny”:
Ya think this might have anything to do with his “jackass” maneuver, interrupting Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech? Hey, Kanye: lay off the Hennessey, and maybe find a classier liquor to glug down on your next red carpet. Better yet, how about not glugging liquor on red carpets? It’s tacky.
Oh, and maybe you should stay off stages unless you’ve been invited to perform on them. Just a suggestion. Unless you want to create another KanyeGate, that is.
P.S. I fully support President Obama’s off-the-record labelling of West as “a jackass,” even though I also think it was a pretty jackass move on the part of the people who leaked that comment.
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