Have you ever thought you could be making music videos, but lacked the incentive or the connections with which to prove yourself? Pepsi and Rock Band are about to provide both. With the Drink Up, Rock Out promotion, they’re giving you the opportunity to win an MTV Video Music Award – the famed Moonman award. Your youth soccer participant trophy will pale in comparison to this sucker. You could bring it to parties! Be buried with it and have it accompany you in the afterlife as if you were an Egyptian god! Do whatever with it! But the fact is, you could win it, and someone else wouldn’t have it, and then you’d be a better person because of it.
All you have to do is visit the Pepsi Drink Up, Rock Out site, make a music video set to one of the approved songs (hooray for copyrights!), and upload it to the site. Sadly, your rock must be contained to within a single gigabyte, but if you’re making a 6 minute video a gigabyte, you might want to use a video codec that wasn’t being used when Leonardo Da Vinci was uploading videos of him and his friends doing stupid stuff on YouTube. We don’t need to see every single sweaty pore on your rocking out faces. The rules video is worth watching not just to get a clue what you need to do and what can be in the video, but also because it’s surprisingly entertaining for a video about contest rules. Get that video up by July 28th, and then the internet will vote for the lucky band that gets a frickin’ Moonman trophy for making an amateur music video.
However, as the late, great Billy Mays once said, ” BUT THAT’S NOT ALL!” You may be thinking, “Why enter? I mean, I don’t have the mad skillz necessary to be awarded a trophy from my internet peers!” Well, Games Are Evil are sweetening the pot. We’ve got 3 $20 rockbandstore.com gift cards to give away to our readers who submit videos. So upload your video, and send the link to your creation to rockband [AT] gamesareevil.com (because email spam is totally not rock ‘n roll) with the subject GrE Rock Band Contest Entry and the link to your magnificient creation. The winning entries will be judged after the contest date ends, so stay alert for your chance to win! So go out there, make a fool of yourself on video rocking out, and win stuff from us. And who knows, maybe deep down there’s a creative genius waiting to be awarded a trophy that you have yet to unleash upon the world. It’s worth a shot, no?
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