The symbiotic relationship between music and advertising was on full display at the 2015 CLIO Awards, where big-name acts came out to celebrate the year’s most creative ads.
Melissa Etheridge took the stage to present the Grand CLIO Music Award and introduce the night’s two musical acts, X Ambassadors and Salt-N-Pepa, while offering a little music of her own. “Have you been good?” she asked the crowd at New York’s Museum of Natural History. “You’re good, so I will leave you with one little musical thing.” Etheridge then broke into an impromptu cover of Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” while the room of advertising executives and celebs like Spike Lee and host Alec Baldwin clapped along.
