I'm pretty much over companies using pop songs from years ago in their ads. It doesn't make me reminisce, feel a camaraderie with you or even vaguely like you as a company. All it does is piss me off when I'm trying to go to sleep and I have "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang going through my head. Damn you marketing firms. Damn you all to hell. On second thought, don't use any popular music. Advertisements should be relegated to the jingle-hell that they deserve.
Not only is it annoying when I'm walking down the hall humming 1-2-3-4 by Fiest (Apple, you sadistic bastards) but I really hate it when a song that I actually like is butchered and forever destroyed, like the dreams of all Green Bay fans, by some damn commercial. The most glaring example of this is the current set of ads for Jamaica (isn't it really weird to advertise a country??). I used to actually like Bob Marley's "One Love". Now, when I hear the real song, I find the lyrics in my head replaced with "Come to Jamaica and feeeeel allllllriiight". Fuck you Jamaica. I hate you. I'm never coming to Jamaica. Kiss my ass.
What I more frequently find is that I end up really hating these companies. Usually, the way this works is that I don't register the ad with the song. I'm just whistling "The Time of My Life" one day and really upset about it. Then the ad comes on that caused it and I yell at the TV "YOU BASTARDS!"
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Right now I have noticed Queen songs in commercials like crazy. The Best Buy ads and the Chevy? ads....
I almost vomited when I heard a Clash song in a Toyota commercial. An Iggy Pop song in a Carnival Cruise ad. A Ramones song in a cell phone ad. so on...
I like the fact that Circuit City used "Just What I Needed" by the Cars. Think about the lyrics they don't play. "I don't mind you coming here, and wasting all my time."
There was also a cell phone commercial that used Queen's, "I Want to Break Free." Here's a hint, this isn't a song about doing office work on the road.
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