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.

[rostasi]

Danny Dark did the Parkay margarine ads.
Lorenzo Music was the voice of "Carlton the Doorman" (and "Garfield the Cat").

[Dan Gould]

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

[rostasi]

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...[Lorenzo] Music continued writing for The Mary Tyler Moore Show spin-off Rhoda, which he co-developed with Davis.^[1] While casting Rhoda, the producers were looking for a voice actor to play the part of Carlton, the comically unseen doorman.^[1] Music had no interest in being an actor, but the producers loved his sleepy, husky voice and offered him that role,^[7] which made his voice recognizable to a worldwide television audience. ^[4]The character was popular enough to warrant a one-off single in 1975 called "Who Is It?" (b/w "The Girl in 510", United Artists UA-XW643-X), which became a regional hit. Music also co-produced and co-wrote a 1980 animated special titled Carlton Your Doorman, which won an Emmy Award. Though it was a pilot episode, CBS did not pick it up as a series...

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Danny Dark (December 19, 1938 – June 13, 2004) was an American voice-over artist. For nearly four decades, he narrated memorable lines in advertisements for Budweiser ("This Bud's for you"), Raid Ant & Roach Killer ("Raid - Kills Bugs Dead"), StarKist tuna ("Sorry, Charlie") and Parkay ("Parkay Margarine from Kraft. The flavor says 'butter'."). The trade paper Radio & Records said, "Dark's distinctive voice has been heard in more award-winning commercials than any announcer in broadcast history." Dark is also well remembered for voicing Superman in the various incarnations of the Super Friends animated series (1973–1985).

 

Edited 21 hours ago by rostasi

[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

[rostasi]

1 hour ago, Dan Gould said:

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.

 

You're welcome.

[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.