Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer Chad Smith has railed against U2 and Black Eyed Peas, calling them sellouts for letting iPod use their music in commercials.
After headlining the UK festival T In The Park, the funky monk told UK newspaper The Daily Record that the bands had no artistic credibility. He said, “I'd feel like a jerk if we did that. But they're all lining up to do it. I think Black Eyed Peas look like a bunch of idiots. It's dangerous. The U2 song on the iPod when it came out was weird and it was longer and it had more parts.”With many acts looking for new avenues to earn money and promote their music due to flagging album sales, advertising tie-ins are becoming more and more attractive. Smith went on to note, “"I think young people, not old guys like myself, think it's normal now to have Led Zeppelin on jeans commercials. Oh, no! That's not normal to me."
Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album ‘Stadium Arcadium' has been a worldwide smash hit, possibly because the band has not bowed to any outside pressure to change their songwriting style in the slightest.
