Songs in Ads

[yeahwho]

One of many reasons to like the Beastie Boys is the fact that they do not engage in selling products to the adman. Branding a product with a song is all the rage today, more than ever Madison Avenue is vying for the boomer's paycheck and what better way than selling cars and bric a brac by hip songs from the "Cool Kids" music collection.

My question to all of you,

Is this anyway to sell a product?

Music from TV ads link (http://www.songtitle.info/)

I am for some reason especially annoyed by the Cadillac Ads featuring Led Zep, trying to sell 50 year olds their hip young youth....they're not hip or young, just old guys in a Caddy. :rolleyes: jeez.

[ms.peachy]

Personally, it doesn't really matter to me. It's just a song in an ad, what's the big deal? If a band or artist expressly doesn't want to release rights to their songs for use, that's OK with me, it's their choice. But by the same token if they do, that is also their right and I don't condemn them for it. As the guy from the Dandy Warhols said when their Bohemian Like You song was being used for Vodaphone ads, "They may pay me as much money as they like to play my music, and play it often."

I haven't really been able to get all het up about people "selling out" since I was a self-righteous fifteen year old living in my parents' basement.

[yeahwho]

Product branding is all the rage, somehow certain songs or bands won't work...or the adman deletes part of the song. A few years back Philips used "It's Getting Better" by the Beatles, and left out the line "It can't get no worse." The worst thing about it is that millions of people must have noticed. Not exactly an obscure band, the Beatles.

I have a bit of a chip on my shoulder about, I don't know why, it just kind of trivializes the whole medium, even if I am aware of the precepts and notions of commercial music. The hope that something is real being connected to a credit card corp. or cheesy dime store....sigh. Branding a product with the Smiths is just damn fucked up.

Thank God for the Sex Pistols, somehow the admen nabbed the Ramones and the Clash, but the sheer intensity of I am the AntiChrist sealed the purity of real rock and roll for the few who really did mean it!

I mean it maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan! No Future!