To help you choose, we hereby offer a crass-off, in which we pit the premieres against each other, minute by minute.
PS Watching now on FX, Pizza Hut commercial with music that is a crass rip off of "Gold on the Ceiling" by the Black Keys.
Fall Out Boy and emo T-shirts But use of celebrity-as-brand need not be so crass and off-putting: for every Perez, who appears to think that merely stamping a name on something will transfer popularity to it, there are those genuinely trying to use the power of celebrity to create new business models for artists who can't survive on record sales any more.
"He's edgy enough that Bud Light or the automotives like the edginess, but at the same time, his cerebral humor keeps it from being crass or off-putting," Hamer said.
It's hard to overcome the feeling that this kind of finger-wagging is fine if you're Crass, living off homegrown vegetables in your anarcho-syndicalist commune, but perhaps a bit much if your music has been used to advertise everything from Vodafone to Debenhams.
― that any politician would ever do anything so crass as to make money off their political fame.
Sure, he was talking about the country as a whole, but it came off as crass, and wholly laughable.
The images are silly and boring and crass — and that rubs off on the words, which suddenly don't seem so special.
And although Prager has also tossed aside the postmodern mantle of irony that protects the serious artist from coming off downright crass -- she manages to score big with critics and fans because her references to Hitchcock are flat out endearing, and her David Lynch/Greg Crewdson sense of foreboding keep many of the images on your mind.
This, crass as it sounds, actually paid off in a big way.
Cable had blown the market open, but there was little focus on quality, and the Saturday-morning lineup was dominated by cheap animation from Hanna-Barbera, the once proud institution behind "Tom and Jerry," which was now off-loading crass content like "The Smurfs" and "Challenge of the GoBots".
