River ,'Objects In Space'
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.
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.
Pisses me off too, Allyson. Even setting the sanctity of the song aside, isn't it famously about heroin?
But then, that didn't stop Carnival Cruises froom using "Lust for Life."
I've given up being saddened by it, and am just counting the days until U2's "One" turns up in an ad for tampons or fried chicken.
am just counting the days until U2's "One" turns up in an ad for tampons or fried chicken.
Lay's Potato Chips. Bet you can't eat just --
"One."
But then, that didn't stop Carnival Cruises froom using "Lust for Life."
See, I think that the commercial with the little girl playing "Lust For Life" on her boombox to her classmates is kinda funny, given that they cut away right before the "with the liquor and drugs & the sex machine" line.
"Mommy, what's 'had it in the ear before' mean?"
earwormed with Billy Idol - Got to be a Lover.
Have Mercy indeed.
I've given up being saddened by it, and am just counting the days until U2's "One" turns up in an ad for tampons or fried chicken.
Well they own all the rights to all their songs and turned down $40 million to use "Beautiful Day" in a car campaign, so just wait until they are desperate for the cash.
earwormed with Billy Idol - Got to be a Lover.
Forgot To Be A Lover. I'm very insistent about this, as I love this song.
Did anyone see the Ben Stiller Show parody of "One" being used to sell breakfast cereal? Ben does a fine, fine Bono.
Joe, gotcher email! Thanks! I will never, ever be back on the Lopate show again. Because my cell turned itself on in my bag and rang on-air. (To keep this on-topic, the caller was MC Paul Barman ...)
so sorry bt - I stand corrected.
eta - and now Prince/Sheena Easton take over the music in my head.
Sue, I chose U2 because I was pretty sure they'd never really had a song in an ad, though I know "Beautiful Day" was used to promote the broadcast of the 2000 Olympics. I googled it, and their hands really are relatively clean on the issue -- the most commercial thing is "Electrical Storm" in a New Zealand spot about yacht racing.
But as you point out, they aren't exactly hurting for the money.
eta - and now Prince/Sheena Easton take over the music in my head.
Which one? I have unreasonable love for Strut, especially since me singing along is deeply inappropriate on so many levels.