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Publishing firms sign up to lyric t-shirts
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 12 May 2009
OK songwriters, a tip. When writing the thought provoking and possibly mind-altering lyrics to your next killer tune, don’t forget to make sure they’ll look nice on a t-shirt, because that’s where you’ll probably see the biggest financial return on your creative investment.
Music publishing firms EMI, Warner/Chappell and Chrysalis have all entered into partnerships with Webwear who are launching a range of “lyric inspired clothing”, ie t-shirts and polo-shirts with some of our favourite lyrics printed on them. They’re also planning a range of lyrical hoodies, which will be perfect – from EMI’s catalogue for example, perhaps the ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ hoodie, “Mama, just killed a man”, or the ‘Irresponsible Hate Anthem’ hoodie, “Hey victim, should I black your eyes again?”
Confirming he had deals with the three pubberys for his new song-words clothing line, Webwear MD Terry Grossman told CMU: “This partnership is an inspirational new venture, combining fashion and music to bring to the high street a range of t-shirts and casual clothing inspired by some of the world’s greatest lyrics. At a time when fashion retailers are feeling the pinch and the economic climate is unsteady, Webwear have the courage and the confidence to launch an exciting new project which we are positive will reap fantastic results for each of the high street stores involved”.
Interestingly the press release for this notes that EMI Music Publishing own the ‘James Bond Theme’. Yeah, look forward to seeing the lyrics from that on a t-shirt.
