Most bizarre music/commerical pairings? - Beyond Tiki

A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Tue, Feb 22, 2005 1:10 PM What is so disturbing about hearing music you like in a commercial for a mainstream product? Is it the use of lyrics out of context, giving them a different meaning? Or would it even be irritating for something instrumental, because of the whole corporate-marketing-is-bad thing? Note, sometimes it's hard to convey the right tone in text - I'm trying to ask in earnest just for discussion cause I'm interested what anyone might say. Personally, I thought it was pretty fun to hear the 5.6.7.8.s in the Vonage commercial recently. Just figured - good for them, they're making some dough off their song. And cool that the advertiser knows about them. Not sure how it helped the company themselves, because I still have no idea what they do, but anyway it made me happy, not disgusted. -Randy

What is so disturbing about hearing music you like in a commercial for a mainstream product? Is it the use of lyrics out of context, giving them a different meaning? Or would it even be irritating for something instrumental, because of the whole corporate-marketing-is-bad thing?

Note, sometimes it's hard to convey the right tone in text - I'm trying to ask in earnest just for discussion cause I'm interested what anyone might say.

Personally, I thought it was pretty fun to hear the 5.6.7.8.s in the Vonage commercial recently. Just figured - good for them, they're making some dough off their song. And cool that the advertiser knows about them. Not sure how it helped the company themselves, because I still have no idea what they do, but anyway it made me happy, not disgusted.

-Randy

Post #142551 by aquarj on Tue, Feb 22, 2005 1:10 PM