It's sad indeed, I was guilty of it when I was younger. "Hey that's the song off...", don't see it so much myself, used to see it all the time. Just as long as I don't hear Bruce Springsteen doing it I shall be fine, although I have this sneaky suspicion that "Hungry Heart" used to be on the Hungry Jacks/Burger King ad...
It seems to me that Michael Jackson had agreed to a deal with Nike at one point to use the Beatles "Revolution" in a promotion, but I honestly don't remember if the deal ever went through. With MJ set to lose his majority share of the Beatles catalogue at the end of May and with Apple Corp. releasing the re-mastered songs for digital downloads sometime this year, it's only a matter of time before we hear those classics on commercials, too. After all, we hear them in elevators.
I know, I know ... of all the things to rant about. Not exactly the most socially conscious diatribe, but darn it all, it made me mad. I guess I'm just one of those people to whom music is extremely important, and creatively -- even though money changes hands and it's all legal and everything -- I can't help looking at such doings as a sanctioned form of plagiarism. (I know, I'm weird. Just ignore the redhead in the back row with the hippogriff feathers for earrings.)
Honey, I wasn't being facetious. The music of our youth is ... sacred. And to see the fruit of such anti-establishment folks as Freddie & Company being used as Madison Avenue fodder is sick-making.
I know you weren't being facetious. **hugs you** But in the light of day (and yes, that is a light blue just over the rooftops) with not nearly enough caffeine in me yet, I realize it's not exactly the biggest injustice in the world today. But it's personal to me, and you're right ... the music of youth is a bit sacred. And I have to ask: do the children of the 80s and 90s feel the same way about their music? Sheryl Crow and Natasha Beddingfield (or whoever owns their rights) have already sold their tunes for advertising purposes. And they're not even considered "classics" yet. Will successive generations have classics that they feel speak for them and their youth
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Wow... I never really thought about it that way - but that's probably because I don't recognize a ton of songs. I did remember being amused that Glidden paint used "Rhythm of Life" from Sweet Charity when I was working on it... and I Can't Believe Its Not Butter used the opening of Act II for one of their commercials...
But I guess I'm just not as saavy on modern music...
But nevertheless, it is a bit appalling! I'm sure it has to do with the fact that it is cheaper to pay someone else for a piece already written than for someone to compose - and its probably faster. Pooh on those who don't know what a song is really about before using it though.
And maybe that's part of what set me off, in this instance. Did anyone even botherto find out where/when the song was popular and what kind of social impact it had before using it? Because, after all, isn't credit card debt just another form of slavery?
**gets down off soapbox**
Sorry. I realize it's kindof a silly thing to get all up-in-arms about, but I don't like discovering the songs that helped me get through adolescence now being used for to make someone else richer. Now, if it were being used for charitable purposes ...
What's next ... Amazing Grace behind a commercial for GPS units?
Brilliant line!
I'm with you on this. I'm sure the artists get gobs of money for it, but it cheapens their work. Write a song for a commercial? Fine. Write a song that says something about our world and society? Don't sell that shit, or you're selling your soul.
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It seems to me that Michael Jackson had agreed to a deal with Nike at one point to use the Beatles "Revolution" in a promotion, but I honestly don't remember if the deal ever went through. With MJ set to lose his majority share of the Beatles catalogue at the end of May and with Apple Corp. releasing the re-mastered songs for digital downloads sometime this year, it's only a matter of time before we hear those classics on commercials, too. After all, we hear them in elevators.
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*shakes fist at world in general on your behalf*
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*distracted* Hippogriff feathers?
*wants*
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But I guess I'm just not as saavy on modern music...
But nevertheless, it is a bit appalling! I'm sure it has to do with the fact that it is cheaper to pay someone else for a piece already written than for someone to compose - and its probably faster. Pooh on those who don't know what a song is really about before using it though.
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**gets down off soapbox**
Sorry. I realize it's kindof a silly thing to get all up-in-arms about, but I don't like discovering the songs that helped me get through adolescence now being used for to make someone else richer. Now, if it were being used for charitable purposes ...
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Brilliant line!
I'm with you on this. I'm sure the artists get gobs of money for it, but it cheapens their work. Write a song for a commercial? Fine. Write a song that says something about our world and society? Don't sell that shit, or you're selling your soul.
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The word is "research," people!
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We do live in a weird world, my dear. Just when you think you've seen everything ...
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