Wheee! I was going to write a big list of everything i love, but instead, I shall mention this:
There's a Nissan commercial that uses "Heroin." I am sure you all know about this by know, but I saw it while cooking dinner the other night, and just laughed and laughed. Obviously there was the sheer absurdity of it, but, after having read a zillion posts crying about all the tunes of punk/indie/whatever genre used in commercials, there's also the knowledge that this was so going to end up discusssed (or, heh "discussed") on the interweb. Even if I were the type to get bothered by this sort of thing, it's just so... BIZARRE. I think those ad menz and wimmenz just picked it beacuse they knew it would piss off basically everyone ever.
And please send me money so I can check out the local only-open-six-hours-a-week record shop.
Posted by rosemary at June 05, 2003 12:23 AMHow long do you think it will take before a band having a song in a commercial is considered cool by even one subculture?
I remember when Apples In Stereo had a song in a Volkswagen commercial and some "fan" gave them hell for it, and Robert Schneider replied that he and Hilarie's cut of the money the band made for that spot went to pay for baby furniture for their son. I thought that was pretty cool.
Wasn't there some Moby factoid about how he ended up doing most of his album promotion for Play by licensing songs to commercials? We are all made of ad revenue...
Not that I think you want to discuss it or anything. I just wonder if the ad peoples think they might be revolutionizing something rather than pissing everyone off (no matter how bizarre that may be). I just wonder (assuming I'm at least partly correct) if it will ever work.
Posted by: martin on June 9, 2003 02:37 PM