Stoner Vamp ,'Lessons'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
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.
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.
Worse, Cadillacs.
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".
Oh my fucking word.
Dear God.
It's a sign of the apocalypse, right?
Dude! I mean, DUDE! Can the Jim Anchowers of the world really afford cruise vacations?
I should buy a Hummer and take up three parking spots in the mall. That's how important I am.
You are so very important with your Hummer & parking skills. In fact, you are so important that I think you should slouch in your seat and talk animatedly on your cell phone while swerving through freeway traffic.