Losing Weight - Ozempic - Diet/Exercise?

[JSngry]

Arm yourself.

 

[Dan Gould]

4 hours ago, Holy Ghost said:

Okay, tangent time, but I don't know about all of you, but I'm really sick how these pharmaceutical conglomerates are inserting their catch words into classic songs into their commercials. Like how Ozempic changed Pilot's Oh it's Magic:

Too...

Too:

😐 Like, stop it!

in general I of course agree with you however, when I heard this the first time the main thing I thought was "I bet whatever band members wrote that song could really use the money" - predicated on the assumption that they were a one-hit wonder and that the tune was written by band members.  If that is the case, then this isn't like licensing and ruining a hit by some guy who owns an island in the Carribean.

 

[Holy Ghost]

5 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

in general I of course agree with you however, when I heard this the first time the main thing I thought was "I bet whatever band members wrote that song could really use the money" - predicated on the assumption that they were a one-hit wonder and that the tune was written by band members.  If that is the case, then this isn't like licensing and ruining a hit by some guy who owns an island in the Carribean.

 

LOLs, yeah don't think think any of that is happening, let alone Pilot nor some rich producer living it up in the Bahamas.

[Dan Gould]

Well it had to have been licensed and that happened at a time when rights holders weren't doing it on the cheap.

It's also entirely possible that they paid a smaller fee because the composers couldn't believe their good fortune and took what was offered.  OTOH its been in use for a while and I think normal practice is a time-limited license, so any renewal could/should have been at a higher cost.

 

Wiki says that the lead singer was actually hired to record the Oh-oh-oh Ozempic line for the spot(s).

Guarantee he got paid, paid well, and has made lots more in residuals too (every 13 weeks they run a spot or reuse a track for a new spot = CHECK).

The guy who played Carleton (the doorman on Rhoda) also voiced the Parkay margarine ads in the 70s.  I was told by my VO coach that he bought a ranch with the proceeds of that one recording session and called it Casa De Residuales.

[Dan Gould]

I wish my VO coach were still alive (for more important reasons than this issue) so I could ask her.

[Dan Gould]

OK why is this so f-ing important to you?

The question was Ozempic using "It's Magic" for their ads and the fact that the lead singer/composer participated in the advertising and didn't just license his composition means he made beaucoup dinero.

 

[JSngry]

https://www.businessinsider.com/ozempic-magic-ad-song-david-paton-pilot-million-2024-4

[JSngry]

3 hours ago, rostasi said:

You're welcome.

 

[tranemonk]

Okay, returning to the semi-point, I was on Zepbound (one of the newer weight loss drugs) for about two to three months. I lost 20 lbs and had major side effects. Everything about that experience was largely negative. Fortunately, the more severe side effects forced me to get off it altogether. Much of what my doctors told me was that once I got off it, the side effects would stop, which they did. 

I would not do it again. So far I've managed to keep off those twenty pounds but I'm done with that stuff. 

[Dan Gould]

8 hours ago, tranemonk said:

So far I've managed to keep off those twenty pounds but I'm done with that stuff. 

Since it seems like anyone who stops the drugs gains back the weight, this is certainly good to hear.