Music Industry Trying To Rebrand “Election Day” As Something More Than An Arcadia Song

noah | October 24, 2008 10:30 am
Today’s Wall Street Journal story on how the entertainment industry is treating Election Day as “another retail holiday, when adults are sprung from work and kids are out of school–and presumably in stores” is full of cringeworthy moments–for starters, we have Brad Paisley calling his current tour The Paisley Party, which I thought was a weird Prince reference but is actually some “funny” political “joke” that I guess will mobilize all the graphic design-challenged types out there. But perhaps the best evidence that Fall Out Boy’s decision to move the release of Folie A Deux from Nov. 4 to mid-December was a smart one comes from the excruciating Oklahoman butt-rockers Hinder.

The rock band Hinder, which had one of the top selling albums of 2006, outfitted Playboy models with stars-and-stripes bikinis and “Vote for Hinder!” signs to promote its boisterous new album.

Here is a picture of that classy, classy promotion, taken from the front page of Hinder’s official site.

It’s really too bad that this young lady, in addition to having some sort of irritation that is making her lips purse in a “where’s the Vagisil” kind of way, doesn’t have any apparent musical talent, isn’t it. Just think–if she could even swat at a tambourine in time, she could get Hinder a little more real estate on the cover of Blender!

Hitting The Polls, Then The Mall [WSJ] Arcadia – Election Day [YouTube]