• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Haha, how about when Run The Jewels got picked up for use in Cadillac commercials? Their lyrics are hilarious and subversive, so it’s weird as hell to see it in a bougie car commercial. Killer Mike and El-P have to get paid I guess but it was kind of surreal seeing them become big because I’d been a fan of both independently over 20 years ago. Been listening to El-P’s stuff since the first Cannibal Ox album with KM not too long after that.

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      Any brand willing to risk it for the biscuit by using Skullgrid in an advert is ok by me.

      Band I love gets money, brand gets… confused public?

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      Microsoft blasting “Cherry Lips” was surreal.

      Some stupid bastards used “Blitzkrieg Bop.”

      Marketing robots must open Genius.com and search for any chorus with the word go.

      … an uncomfortable number of years ago the US Marines used a Godsmack song that I was only mostly sure wasn’t “Sick Of Life.”

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          3 months ago

          Been there. Walking through Publix, looking at the wall of bread, surprised I like the muzak for once. “But I won’t cry for yesterday, there’s an ordinary world, somehow I have to OH NOOOO”

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      3 months ago

      when one of your favorite tracks from an album gets used in a commercial.

      There’s a cover of Aerosmith’s Dream On that’s sung by a scandinavian performer in that rich, deep, lush way you expect, and it sounds beautiful.

      https://youtu.be/nAoCHQkQLGc

      It’s the typical “take a rock song and slow it down for a solo” thing they do with every song on those amateur-with-celebrity-judges talent shows, but it sounds actually natural and real instead of this generation’s Aguilaran Vocal Gymnastics. But she only did it for the commercial.

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      I just love hearing the recent sonic commercials because at the end you can hear the unmistakable voice of Marc Rebillet (Loop Daddy) for a fraction of a second saying “wanna live free” and I get so happy knowing his music wasn’t tarnished by commercialism, but he likely made bank of that 1 second line.