Most bizarre music/commerical pairings? - Beyond Tiki

M martiki Official Mixologist http://www.smugglerscovesf.com Joined: Mar 29, 2002 Posts: 3059	M martiki Posted posted on Tue, Feb 22, 2005 12:45 PM I was alarmed as hell and deeply depressed by two commercial/pop song pairings recently: When HP used "Pictures of You" by The Cure to sell cameras and printers. At least the title makes some sense, but c'mon Mad Bob, are you really that hurting? But far more devastating was "How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths being used to sell Nissans. Ugh. Yes, I did go home and cried and wanted to die. How could they? Here's a great recent column about this very topic from Mark Morford of SF Gate. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/12/10/notes121004.DTL (Please note Mark is a heavy duty leftist, so there is some slight political content to this column.) [ Edited by: martiki on 2005-02-22 12:46 ]

I was alarmed as hell and deeply depressed by two commercial/pop song pairings recently:

When HP used "Pictures of You" by The Cure to sell cameras and printers. At least the title makes some sense, but c'mon Mad Bob, are you really that hurting?

But far more devastating was "How Soon Is Now?" by The Smiths being used to sell Nissans. Ugh. Yes, I did go home and cried and wanted to die. How could they?

Here's a great recent column about this very topic from Mark Morford of SF Gate.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/12/10/notes121004.DTL

(Please note Mark is a heavy duty leftist, so there is some slight political content to this column.)

[ Edited by: martiki on 2005-02-22 12:46 ]

Post #142543 by martiki on Tue, Feb 22, 2005 12:45 PM