Bill Murray And The Postal Service Covering Drake's "Laugh Now Cry Later" Is The Strangest Collaboration Of 2020
Bill Murray is the envy of every person with a brain because he operates with 100% total immunity. The guy can do whatever the hell he wants and people not only give him a pass, but they eat it up.
This is another perfect example.
Strange to say the least.
I would love a little backstory about how this all came about but all we got was the caption Jenny Lewis posted.
Who is Jenny Lewis?
She's the girl from the Fred Savage Nintendo movie The Wizard (awesome 80s movie).
Who then went on to become a member of the band The Postal Service.
If you don't know who they are you should check them out.
(Fun fact- they got their name because the original members of the band Jimmy Tamborello and Ben Gibbard would each record their part of songs and mail them to each other through the USPS to put together their first album)
Jenny and Bill Murray teamed up to do A Very Murray Christmas in 2015 on Netflix and a rendition of "Baby It's Cold Outside"
Now on Christmas, they decided to drop a cover of Drake and Lil Durk's "Laugh Now, Cry Later".
Anybody else does this and it falls on deaf ears or that person brushing the snares and hitting the kick drum like that is called a fuckin weirdo. But not Bill Murray.
Bill Murray is so cool he also gets to skate the law.
Back in September the Doobie Brothers called him out for continuing to use their banger "Listen To The Music" in his golf ads without their permission.
Rolling Stone- On Wednesday, the Doobie Brothers’ lawyers publicly sent a quirky legal warning to the William Murray Golf company about the commercials. “It’s a fine song. I know you agree because you keep using it in ads for your Zero Hucks Given golf shirts,” attorney Peter Paterno wrote. “However, given that you haven’t paid to use it, maybe you should change the company name to ‘Zero Bucks Given.'”
Paterno added, “This is the part where I’m supposed to cite the United States Copyright Act, excoriate you for not complying with some subparagraph that I’m too lazy to look up and threaten you with eternal damnation for doing so. But you already earned that with those Garfield movies. And you already know you can’t use music in ads without paying for it.”
While hoping to reach an out-of-court compromise, the lawyer made one last crack at the comedy great and his golf shirts, “We’d almost be OK with it if the shirts weren’t so damn ugly. But it is what it is.”
I haven't seen a response to a legal issue that smooth since somebody offered a $50 gift card to the merch store.
Unreal.
"Hey, huge fan of your music like the rest of the world. Sorry, we used it in a half dozen ads without clearing it with you and paying royalties. Here's some merch. Thanks and take care!"