Buffy ,'Potential'
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.
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.
It's my high school nightmare, on a cruise ship!
"Come Sail Away" (how apropos!) was the big spotlight dance in "The Virgin Suicides" and "Freaks and Geeks".
It's my high school nightmare, on a cruise ship!
Leonard's loss. Mine, too. Guess which one I care about.
Article about bands that won't allow music to be used for ads. it's from 2002- have any of the artists named in it changed their minds since?
Though this passage:
R.E.M. The jangly strains of the seminal '90s alt-rock band have become so well known, they're instantly recognizable: Think It's the "End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" and "Losing My Religion". Advertisers could have a field day with R.E.M.'s repertoire. Stick "Everybody Hurts" on an aspirin commercial. "One I Love" is perfect for a Hallmark Valentine's Day campaign.
(emphasis mine)
Makes me wonder if the writer could find irony in a dictionary.
I always wanted Budwiser to use Oingo Boingo's "No Spill Blood" for a commercial.
U Got the Look.
"I stand corrected" is what triggered it.
Did anyone see the Ben Stiller Show parody of "One" being used to sell breakfast cereal? Ben does a fine, fine Bono.
I think it was even Lucky Charms. He did have a good early 90s Bono.
And the manager from the Partridge Family was their manager, I think.