How Would You Stir Up Nation-wide Controversy?

[Dog]

If you were selling an album or a book or screenplay, how would you go about making some type of controversy surrounding it that would boost your sales (and make you [in]famous, of course)?

Rappers do it by starting or pretending to have beefs with other rappers. Paris Hilton did it by being a slut. Dick Masterson did it by going on Dr. Phil and trolling everyone with sexism. How would you do it?

[Persian]

Fly a plane into a building

[Fish]

Have one of your band members kill himself, then take a picture of it and make it the album cover.

[Ed Lister]

Sell cigarettes to children outside schools.

[WAN]

Originally Posted by Fish

Have one of your band members kill himself, then take a picture of it and make it the album cover.

white boys sure love killing themselves

yep

edit: and they make it cool, too

[Dog]

Originally Posted by Fish

Have one of your band members kill himself, then take a picture of it and make it the album cover.

I've never even heard of them though...like, that's pretty controversial, but how much did it pay off for them? EDIT: Oh, they're called Mayhem...a famous band, eh?

[Vizier]

Shotgun mouthwash the main singer.

[Mantikore]

id probably blow up every mosque and synagogue, then make fake videos claiming credit from the other sides

[Travis Bickle]

Originally Posted by Fish

Have one of your band members kill himself, then take a picture of it and make it the album cover.

That's fucking BRUTTALLL

[Haiti's Space Agency]

Make the end of my book a bel-air.

[Silverfuck]

Well, since nation-wide would in this case refer to Canada, I would call it something like "Maple Syrup Sucks and Mounties are Pussies."

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Travis Bickle

That's fucking BRUTTALLL

Is this a Metalocalypse reference?

Originally Posted by PizzaNazi

I've never even heard of them though...like, that's pretty controversial, but how much did it pay off for them? EDIT: Oh, they're called Mayhem...a famous band, eh?

They're not particularly well know now for two reasons: 1) they're from the late 80's black metal scene - they set the stage for a lot of today's well-known black/death metal bands, but they themselves have since stepped out of the limelight, and 2) they're norweigan, which means that between being older "niche metal" and being foreign, they don't get much coverage in the American music scene, despite their influence on their genre.

For the record, their guitarist was also stabbed to death (23 stab wounds) by a one of the other members, but this was not made into an album cover.

[Monkmaster]

^It's still a cool album. Both murderer and victim playing on the same record.

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I don't know how I'd stir up controversy. I wouldn't want to.

[derfarter]

Hypothetically:

Call the major media and tell them that your terrorist group will blow up 15 major targets around the US on Christmas Day. When they track down the origin of the call, have the following items spread around the shack where you called from:

1) several empty cans of Beef-a-roni;
2) a dirty blanket;
3) a dog-eared copy of the Koran
4) a copy of your book or screenplay or album, with several passages (or lyrics) underlined;
5) a big, black dildo.

When they question you about your creative work found at the scene, tell them you left copies with people all over town, or left it at Starbucks or at the library or something. You will get the attention, maybe a little suspicion, but, if they can't trace the calls directly to you, you can't be legally prosecuted. (They may still drag you down to Gitmo and use that dildo on you, so be ready.)

Either way, you'll be known. Make sure to quote the whatever-it-is in your phone call--that makes your project more newsworthy. Something like "We shall destroy the infidels like Katy destroyed Morgan's chances at a succesful relationship by interfering with his promotion at the ad agency. If it hadn't been for her interference, he would have gotten a big raise at work, which would have allowed them to finally have a baby. It was ironic that the very reason she sabotaged him was because he wouldn't agree to the baby--kind of a Gift of the Magi thing. Anyway, praise Allah, LALALALALLAAA!!!."

[Surprise Buttsecks]

I'd say Hitler wrote it.

[Necro]

Originally Posted by Fish

Have one of your band members kill himself, then take a picture of it and make it the album cover.

Worked on me.

[boogeyman1]

put a mouse in a can of coors beer and open up can on live tv

[SKUV]

Reveal Obama's father-daughter sex tape...

[HTS]

Shoot up a school or a mall, while high. In my suicide note, I'd mention that I'd been smoking weed lately, to relax me and get me in the killing mood.

I'd also write that I practiced the shooting in FPS video games, and the only reason I did it was to see if I could beat the high score.

[Monkmaster]

Originally Posted by HTS

Shoot up a school or a mall, while high. In my suicide note, I'd mention that I'd been smoking weed lately, to relax me and get me in the killing mood.

I'd also write that I practiced the shooting in FPS video games, and the only reason I did it was to see if I could beat the high score.

You'd make a lot of people sad, and I'm not talking about the victims families.

[reallystupidstuff]

the pope gets a little girl pregnant and aborts it but she gave him t3h aidz so he flies a plane into the whitehouse

[Tommy Lund]

Originally Posted by Fish

Have one of your band members kill himself, then take a picture of it and make it the album cover.

Aye. That worked.

[33% God]

Outlaw Christianity.

[Euda]

Make a commercial where you show hunters shooting beer. It would vilify hunters and make people think they're shooting beers. What kind of hunter-monster shoots a beer?

[cb']

Fake a paper that says atheism is linked to brain cancer. Major media would jump on it, they don't bother to check facts, and it fits their agenda. Wouldn't even matter it if it got pulled the next day.