For evidence of artists who've been able to maintain their credibility while licensing their music for commercials, you might look no further than a certain Canadian songstress who got a «big break» when her song was featured in an iPod commercial in 2007: (canadianbusiness.com)
The clip shows the Canadian songstress interacting with Ryan Reynolds on set, who claims he had «five bones from my body removed, including my collar bones [and] seven inches of spine. (x-menfilms.com)
The New Yorker profiles «the greatest singer in the history of postwar popular music» — 74 - year - old songstress Aretha Franklin. (blog.nmwa.org)