Some songs are holy to me, and therefore, using one of these holy songs to sell soda seems blasphemous. One such song is the Rolling Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want.
Led Zeppelin's Rock n' Roll also should not be used to sell trucks. It's the only song to which I will play the air drums at a stop light. It is therefore holy and should not be used to sell a truck.
I'm making a mental list of songs which are holy. Baba O'Reilly by The Who. The Cars' All Mixed Up, though I like the Red House Painters' version just as well. Supremes' I Hear a Symphony.
Sweet Jane. I'll Be You (Replacements). Dilate, Ani DiFranco.
These songs are holy and make me not want to buy your product when (if) you use them, because you have blasphemed and caused me to associate your product with a song that was previously associated with a gorgeous memory of something both good and pure.
I felt that way about Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" and the Stooges' "TV Eye" being used to sell cars, but I ended up shrugging it off. Drake's family & the Igster deserve all the cash they can get.
I guess it would piss me off if I heard Big Star's "Kanga Roo" in a car commercial, but I'd probably get over it again.
These songs are holy and make me not want to buy your product when (if) you use them, because you have blasphemed and caused me to associate your product with a song that was previously associated with a gorgeous memory of something both good and pure.
I'll second that with a mighty gabba gabba hey! I honestly can't understand the mentality of ad agencies and some of the companies who employ them. How could they come to the conclusion that using a classic song to sell a product, would make me want to buy that product, rather than fire-bomb the HQ of the company for desecrating a great song?
They want their product associated with something cool. I get that.
They're just not allowed to pull from my personal list, because it makes me feel bad and I am VERY IMPORTANT.
I should buy a Hummer and take up three parking spots in the mall. That's how important I am.
How could they come to the conclusion that using a classic song to sell a product, would make me want to buy that product, rather than fire-bomb the HQ of the company for desecrating a great song?
I tend toward believing that if it didn't work, they'd stop doing it.
Drake's family & the Igster deserve all the cash they can get.
What Hayden said.
I should buy a Hummer and take up three parking spots in the mall. That's how important I am.
I guess "Happy Jack" isn't a holy song for you. If Hummer had been cool enough to use "Pictures of Lily" instead I might consider buying one, my philosophical objections & lack of money notwithstanding.
Click here if you dare. Note: although this is completely oblectionable in so many ways it is "work safe".
It's a sign of the apocalypse, right?
