The Story Behind Phillip Phillips’s “Home” and How It Became an Anthem of the …

Phillip Phillip’s “Home” became the unofficial anthem of the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics “Fab Five” team in a really cool way.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the song was chosen when an American Idol supervising producer Megan Michaels, who just so happens to be related to Olympics producer David Michaels, introduced the song to her connected relatives.

After testing “Home” out with some home footage, David Michaels decided to go ahead and present it to his team. “We just knew with the right pictures, we could really make this thing explode… Everybody I played it for went, ‘Wow, what is that?’ and I go, ‘It was the American Idol winner.’ And they were like, ‘Really?’”

Noting that the song was “perfect” for the purposes of the Olympics, David explained that the reason producers paired it with the women’s gymnastics team lead-in is it “has got a team feeling to it — it doesn’t really work as well for an individual. So, it fit perfectly for the team concept.”

While the team is done with their competition portions, David said NBC is not quite done with the song just yet. “We’ll use it on the piece we’re doing on the team championship for the closing ceremony day,” he said.

Cool story, right? Well, according to a recent interview Phillip Phillips did with Access Hollywood, it would’ve been even cooler for him if all this attention were for his own song.

Noting that he had no creative control over choosing his Idol finale song, he said that he tried to perform a song he’d written with his brother-in-law, “Drive Me,” “but it just wasn’t happening.”

So, the success of “Home” is both a blessing and a curse.

“It was hard for me at first because I didn’t really have any input with the song,” he explained. “I just want to give my all on the songs on the album… I’d rather sell 10,000 copies of something I’m proud of than 20 million copies of something that’s not really me.”

While it may have been slow going in the beginning, Phillip now says he is “starting to grow a connection” with the song and he’s honored to have been featured in the Olympics.

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Victoria’s Secret to sue major cosmetics player over ‘naked’ trademark

The lawsuit was allegedly filed in a federal court in Ohio by Victoria’s Secret after it became apparent the brands had opted for the same term in its individual product range.

Urban Decay uses the term for its newest foundation and a color cosmetic palette called Naked (and its sequel, Naked 2), while Victoria’s Secret has operated an underwear line under the name ‘The Nakeds by Victoria’s Secret’ since 2010, and as of June this year, introduced a cosmetic line called ‘The Nakeds.’

In a letter last month, Urban Decay allegedly warned Victoria’s Secret that it was violating the Newport Beach company’s trademark and insisted that Victoria’s Secret “immediately cease all production, marketing, promotion, sale and distribution of the Nakeds palette,” and to “give all existing inventory and marketing materials to Urban Decay to be destroyed.”

The cosmetic company then set a deadline of July 27 to meet its request, while Victoria’s Secret wants the federal judge to rule that the lingerie company is not infringing on Urban Decay’s trademark and to remove Urban Decay’s trademark of the name ‘Naked’ in connection with personal care products including cosmetics.

Meanwhile Victoria’s Secret claimed in its lawsuit that the term ‘naked’ is too broad for trademark protection and consumers would not be confused by two lines of makeup named ‘Naked,’. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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