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#2: Nov 12th 2010 at 3:41:32 PM
Hearing Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life" in commercials for Royal Caribbean cruises was just a leeeeeeeeetle bit jarring.
EDIT: The biggest case of this that I've ever seen was a European KFC commercial that used a sort of "raunchy" sax tune:
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edited 12th Nov '10 3:51:50 PM by Yongary
NO PLACE TO HIDE
#3: Nov 12th 2010 at 3:52:23 PM
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Sounds innocuous enough, right? Except that this is the same tune used in the montage of sleazy vintage exploitation at the beginning of every Something Weird Video VHS and DVD (mildly NSFW):
If I had seen this on actual TV, I would have done a spit-take.
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So I'm watching television and a promo spot for Discovery's new series Brew Masters
comes on. After a few bars, I recognize the music - it's from Curtis Mayfield's "Pusher Man" from the Superfly soundtrack. Am I the only one that thinks that a song about a drug dealer is an odd choice for a show about brewers?
All though I suppose that it's not as bad as the Fidelity spot from several years back that used the audio track from "Nothing From Nothing (Leaves Nothing)
," a song about not wanting to be with someone who doesn't have any money, which struck me as a subtle dig at the very people who, arguably, need financial services the most.
Of course if you're in say, your twenties or so, or just didn't grow up with 70s funk, folks like Curtis Mayfield and Billy Preston are ancient history, and so the songs are nothing more than catchy background tunes.
How about the rest of you? Ever come across a commercial with background music that seemed to have Unfortunate Implications?
RZ-007. Side of Republic.