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Subject: right on!
Finally!
I have for years shook my fists in rage and hung my head in shame at the rampant and pathetic practice of using songs in commercials.
My recent rage has come at the merging of two 60's icons- the song "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf and film clips from the movie "Easy Rider"- both used in a Pepsi commercial.
What a load! The commercial, if you have not seen it, features a pudgy office worker in his tie and button down white collar uniform gliding up next to Easy Rider (Peter Fonda)
and giving a big dumb grin and foppish thumbs up. This nightmare is intercut with the real image of the dweeb sitting on a train whining "Born to Wild" while listening to the song on headphones. This sick commercial ends when the clueless office worker yells a pathic "This is sooo cool!" to the Easy Rider character.
Vomit. Sheer vomit enducing fantasy that derides every political statement that both the movie and the song made. No yuppie schmoe would ever have the nuts to rebel at least in any meaningful way- unless of course we believe that rebellion can be canned and consumed in the form of Pepsi.
Wild, indeed.
In Peace, Ricky
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I kind of thought it was funny. I must be shallow. :-/
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:-/ :-/ :-/ I usually think it's cool when they use good songs in commercials."AllI Have to do is Dream"by the Everly Brothers was used in 2--a Nissan Ultima commercial(the one with the astronaut)and a commercial for people with lactose intolerance.i admit with the last one,you might kind of scratch your head with the woman seeing everything turn into dairy products--I think it was trees turning into ice cream cones.I guess it kind of harkens back to the days when the Everlys were smokong pot and getting the munchies :DI'm sure that kind of hallucination actually happened to them :DCheers! 8)
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I guess it kind of harkens back to the days when the Everlys were smokong pot and getting the munchies :DEnd Quote
Did they really? I don't care, actually. Just didn't peg them as the type.
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I'm sure that kind of hallucination actually happened to them :DCheers! 8)End Quote
That's a pretty wild guess there.
Anyway, pot does not cause hallucinations. If it does, then it's laced with something else.
On topic:
I detest listening to good music degraded, lowered into the world of tv commercials.
On the other hand, that practice has exposed some of the newer generations to many great older tunes.
Whatever. I have resigned myself to just go with the flow. It's pointless to get upset about things you cannot control, like having your favorite song in a tv commercial.
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How about when Burger King was using a Barry White song to describe a hamburger and when they used "Groove Me"King Floyd in the "Got Milk" commercial.
Howard
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Neil Young says..."Ain't singin for Pepsi, ain't singin for Coke
don't sing for nobody, makes me look like a
joke. This note's for you..."
His video won the MTV yearly award but
never appeared on TV. It poked fun at the
commercialism of musicians Michael Jackson
and Whitney.
Check him out on KaZaa or Morpheus. IN
CONCERT 91 is fabulous. Neil's lyrics in
Hey Hey My My quoted by Cobain in his
suicide note.
ROCK ON
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His video won the MTV yearly award but never appeared on TV. It poked fun at the commercialism of musicians Michael Jackson and Whitney.End Quote
Actually, it did appear on TV for a while before MTV pulled it.
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Love him or Hate him...Jim Morrison refused to let any Doors songs go on commercials...a practice still enforced by the only decent original Door left...John Densmore ;)
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I'm sure Riders on the Storm was used here in the U.K. to advertise car tyres.
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I'm sure Riders on the Storm was used here in the U.K. to advertise car tyres.
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and they're getting thier @sses sued for it!