Jul 11, 2006 • 1 min read

RHCP criticise U2 and Peas for ad endorsement

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith says the band would never license their music for adverts, criticising U2 and Black Eyed Peas for doing so.

Presumably this means we can rest assured there'll never be a cheap Red Hot Chili Peppers compilation musical on Broadway - because the RHCP guys would be a bit hypocritical to sell out in that way given that they have been bitching about U2 and Black Eyed Peas because both bands allowed their songs to be used as TV commercials.

The band's drummer, Chad Smith, has said they would never allow their music to be used in an ad soundtrack. Smith: "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. 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."

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