Earworms: Music in Commercials

[funky-rat]

46 minutes ago, Jamoche said:

Used to be I only saw it on bad pregnancy photos on http://youarenotaphotographer.com

It's one of those Instagram things that teens seem to be obsessed with.  A former co-worker's teenage daughter injured herself repeatedly trying to get "the perfect water heart" in a pool with her friend.  So lame.  

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Water+Hair+Flip+with+Friends&FORM=IDINTS

[mmecorday]

The Instagram boyfriend should put down the rolled tacos and push sunset heart hands girlfriend off the cliff.

[Brattinella]

What kills me is the sincerity on the faces of the heart-hands-makers, like this is the most profound thing they've ever done.

[CoderLady]

3 hours ago, Brattinella said:

What kills me is the sincerity on the faces of the heart-hands-makers, like this is the most profound thing they've ever done.

It just might be.

[janie jones]

On 12/17/2018 at 7:15 PM, Prevailing Wind said:

And while I'm bitching, when did this stupid "heart hands" gesture start becoming a thing? It's styoopid. 

Several years ago I kept seeing this commercial from some special Taylor Swift concert that was going to air, and she did the heart hands in it.  My dislike for Taylor Swift + the frequency with which I saw that commercial + the general douchiness of heart hands = I hate heart hands forever.

[Tom Holmberg]

On ‎12‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 9:07 AM, Aryanna said:

The Amazon Echo ad about daddy's favorite song. The dad shows his daughter his favorite song and she listens to it through the years and then in her college dorm room tells Alexa to play it. Girl, your dad's favorite song sucks. He has no musical taste.

I like the Faces song "Oh La La" but I wonder if the girl ever listened to the misogynistic lyrics:

They'll trap you, then they use you
Before you even know
For love is blind and you're far too kind
Don't ever let it show...

They come on strong and it ain't too long
Before they make you feel a man
But love is blind and you soon will find
You're just a boy again...

When you want her lips, you get a cheek
Makes you wonder where you are
If you want some more and she's fast asleep
Then she's twinkling with the stars...

[sempervivum]

I'm so glad that we've probably heard the last of the Target 'Round and Round' song. I am old and have fond memories as a child in the 50's of hearing this sung by Perry Como! 

The Target version sounds like it's being sung by a yowling cat; I was stunned to find out that it's SIA, who has an awesome voice on everything else I've heard from her.

[mojoween]

The Stella Artois ad where the lady brings a ridiculously too large present to a piano bar (and apparently the dude did the same) is pretentious and annoying, but damn that piece of music is catchy.

[sempervivum]

This is an older ad, but: Peloton- a bunch of rich people in awesome houses/apartments on their exercise machines. The 'music' is a bunch of chanting with some guy mumble-boasting about 'I got a million of 'em-double ya money and make a stack'. This is probably some famous rapper, but I fail to see the connection, unless it's to remind the masses that these things are really, really expensive.

[Brattinella]

7 hours ago, sempervivum said:

This is an older ad, but: Peloton- a bunch of rich people in awesome houses/apartments on their exercise machines. The 'music' is a bunch of chanting with some guy mumble-boasting about 'I got a million of 'em-double ya money and make a stack'. This is probably some famous rapper, but I fail to see the connection, unless it's to remind the masses that these things are really, really expensive.

I posted about this very ad in the Commercials You Hate Forum! YA YA YA YA YA YA!  I hate this ad to infinity and beyond.  It is inexcusable that the shrieking begins at the first moment of the commercial!  I never can mute it in time. :(

[Annber03]

I think the use of that song in that commercial is mainly just to go along with the shots of people getting all pumped up while using the machines-it's an energetic, fast-paced, aggressive song, perfect for somebody who wants to exercise.. I don't think the lyrics really matter one way or another. 

[mmecorday]

Oh, but the lyrics are soooo charming! Just like a Robert Frost poem.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&q=onto+the+next+one+lyrics

[suomi]

which calls for the complete earworm ...

[funky-rat]

The one local news channel uses the most obnoxious song in their promos.

They show people working at local businesses, etc, waving at the camera, and they play this annoying blurb repeatedly behind it.  If I've capitalized a word, it's sung very loudly.  The lyrics are just awkward and annoying to me.

"You're everywhere.  Got you.  Everywhere.  Everywhere I roam.  You're everywhere.  Got you.  Everywhere.  Everywhere I....GO!!! Oh oh oh oh oh.  Everywhere I GO!!!!".

[Bort]

Yep, it's official. The Run Around Sue commercial by Applebee's is an earworm. I've had that song stuck in my head for the better part of two days.

[Annber03]

8 hours ago, funky-rat said:

The one local news channel uses the most obnoxious song in their promos.

They show people working at local businesses, etc, waving at the camera, and they play this annoying blurb repeatedly behind it.  If I've capitalized a word, it's sung very loudly.  The lyrics are just awkward and annoying to me.

"You're everywhere.  Got you.  Everywhere.  Everywhere I roam.  You're everywhere.  Got you.  Everywhere.  Everywhere I....GO!!! Oh oh oh oh oh.  Everywhere I GO!!!!".

Ooh, yes, I see that one a lot, too. 

[Brattinella]

7 hours ago, kariyaki said:

Yep, it's official. The Run Around Sue commercial by Applebee's is an earworm. I've had that song stuck in my head for the better part of two days.

Me too, but I don't mind it.  I love that song.

[Bort]

8 hours ago, Brattinella said:

Me too, but I don't mind it.  I love that song.

Yeah, I don't mind either, really. It's just amazingly persistent.

I wonder if the download rate for this song on iTunes suddenly spiked up recently.

[SoSueMe]

On 2/11/2019 at 11:29 PM, Brattinella said:

Me too, but I don't mind it.  I love that song.

I like it too. As a "Sue" it's nice to have the song with some positive connotations. 😁

[mme ginger]

This may be an unpopular opinion, but advertisers can stop using Queen in ads now. They were a good group, but not that amazing, so let it go already. Please!

[Silver Raven]

I love "Ring of Fire" sung in Chinese.

[meep.meep]

I actually hate that.

[blueray]

There's a commercial that is advertising evening (or online) college classes. But it plays "you got what you give" in a slow version. Anyhow, I like this version as well as the original song.

[Tom Holmberg]

On ‎2‎/‎22‎/‎2019 at 9:03 AM, mme ginger said:

They were a good group, but not that amazing, so let it go already.

With an Elton John movie due out, his music will soon replace Queen's.

[EighteenTwelve]

The music from the Modelo beer commercials (which the internet tells me is a remix of music from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) has leaked over into a LL Bean commercial.  What I want is for it to go away, not be overplayed even more than it already is!

[Colleenna]

Everybody and their cousin seems to be using The Score's song "Legend." I've heard it in beer commercials, car commercials, trucks, etc. Stop it! I like the song.... it's part of my workout playlist... but I get really stabby when I hear it three times per hour. 

[Tom Holmberg]

On ‎3‎/‎25‎/‎2019 at 3:49 PM, EighteenTwelve said:

The music from the Modelo beer commercials (which the internet tells me is a remix of music from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly) has leaked over into a LL Bean commercial.

I can listen to "Ecstasy of Gold" (yes, it's Ennio Morricone music from "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly") all day.  More Morricone, please!

[funky-rat]

I'm so over the "Welcome to my house......we don't have to goooooooo ouuuuuuttttt" song.  Unfortunately, my husband watches WWE, and they used that song for one of their PPV's, and I was over it before the commercial it's currently in aired.

[CoderLady]

I don't mind the ad itself because I'm a sucker for displays of bright, vivid, saturated colors, but the music in the Go Daddy commercial drives me up a wall. Starting with the screaming fake violins at the start, followed by the rapid fire "da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da DA DA!" vocals, I hate this ad so much that I've gotten really good at fast forwarding through the commercial breaks on StartTV's midday Medium mini-marathon. Ugh. Just go, Daddy. Far away, out of earshot.

[Colleenna]

On 4/1/2019 at 11:11 AM, funky-rat said:

I'm so over the "Welcome to my house......we don't have to goooooooo ouuuuuuttttt" song.  Unfortunately, my husband watches WWE, and they used that song for one of their PPV's, and I was over it before the commercial it's currently in aired.

Oh lord yes. Last summer it seemed like every fecking company used it, with the accompanying cookout scene. 

[topanga]

"Easy" by Lionel Richie & The Commodores is playing on Pandora. That song will forever remind me of the NFL commercial with Eddie George and the football dad. One of my favorite football commercials ever.

[Popples]

7 hours ago, topanga said:

"Easy" by Lionel Richie & The Commodores is playing on Pandora. That song will forever remind me of the NFL commercial with Eddie George and the football dad. One of my favorite football commercials ever.

I feel the same way about Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You" and this commercial. YouTube won't allow the video to embed 🙁.

[sempervivum]

I hate the music in the newest Target ads- 'Baby Watch Me Work it Now' and the other screamy one that I can't understand any words of. Ugh, I thought 'Meet Me in the Middle' and 'All the Ways' were insufferable, but these are far worse.

[funky-rat]

On 4/19/2019 at 9:04 AM, topanga said:

"Easy" by Lionel Richie & The Commodores is playing on Pandora. That song will forever remind me of the NFL commercial with Eddie George and the football dad. One of my favorite football commercials ever.

The NFL briefly used "Every Day Is Like Sunday" by Morrissey in an ad campaign long ago.  I adore the song, but my husband was unaware.  They only used that one phrase from the song.  I said to my husband "Just what I'd want my brand to be related to - a song about how much life sucks".  He looked at me and I said "The next line in the song is 'Everyday is silent, and gray' ".

[Jamoche]

What did the Cranberries do to deserve having "Dreams" turned into an off-pitch dirge in that Mazda red balloon ad?

[catlover79]

On 12/10/2018 at 9:55 AM, Aryanna said:

What's the deal with She's A Rainbow being used in commercials these days? Acura has a commercial with that song and I just recently saw a Dior commercial with Jennifer Lawrence that uses that song.

Yup, I had the song stuck in my head for days!! Someone even wrote a blog post about the two ads using the same song:

https://www.stealingshare.com/tv-ads-using-the-same-exact-song/

[catlover79]

On 12/7/2018 at 3:15 PM, funky-rat said:

Yeah, it's Michael and his brothers, as adults (as opposed to Jackson 5).  The "Triumph" album was pre-thriller, but not sure by how much.  

Triumph was released in September 1980. Thriller was released in November 1982.

[funky-rat]

On 6/2/2019 at 2:15 PM, catlover79 said:

Yup, I had the song stuck in my head for days!! Someone even wrote a blog post about the two ads using the same song:

https://www.stealingshare.com/tv-ads-using-the-same-exact-song/

I remember it eons ago in a commercial for the iMac computer (and all of it's pretty colors).  I haven't seen those two ads (but my husband tends to DVR a lot of stuff).

[catlover79]

@funky-rat, here are the ads:

[janie jones]

21 hours ago, funky-rat said:

I remember it eons ago in a commercial for the iMac computer (and all of it's pretty colors).  I haven't seen those two ads (but my husband tends to DVR a lot of stuff).

That's all I ever think of when I hear that song.

[catlover79]

Two words: LiMu Emu!!!!!

[Prevailing Wind]

But they're pronouncing it wrong. Lee-moo Ee-moo is OK as a rhyme, but if LiMu is supposed to be a shortened version of Liberty Mutual, it ought to be Lih-Myoo Emu, which destroys all reason for there to be an emu.

Likewise, the aforementioned WaMu bank in some other thread. I had a boss that banked there and she always referred to it as Wah-Myoo, whereas, I had too much fun saying Wah-MOOOOOoooooo. I was so disappointed when Chase bought 'em out. But Boss was right in her pronunciation; I was wrong.

[Jynnan tonnix]

On 6/24/2019 at 7:00 AM, Prevailing Wind said:

But they're pronouncing it wrong. Lee-moo Ee-moo is OK as a rhyme, but if LiMu is supposed to be a shortened version of Liberty Mutual, it ought to be Lih-Myoo Emu, which destroys all reason for there to be an emu.

Likewise, the aforementioned WaMu bank in some other thread. I had a boss that banked there and she always referred to it as Wah-Myoo, whereas, I had too much fun saying Wah-MOOOOOoooooo. I was so disappointed when Chase bought 'em out. But Boss was right in her pronunciation; I was wrong.

Now that I think about it, I realize I've always pronounced the bird as "Ee-Myoo", so the rhyme works in my world. Am I pronouncing it wrong, or is it an alternate? 

Aargh...nevermind. I just realized you were talking about the first syllable of the "Lee/Lih" rather than the emu bit. All those phonetic pronunciations threw me off 😄

Edited June 25, 2019 by Jynnan tonnix

[Brattinella]

I think Ee-Myoo is the correct pronunciation.

[catlover79]

I didn't put nearly as much thought into how to properly pronounce "LiMu" as you folks did, but it sure has become a lively discussion!!! 😊

[janie jones]

11 hours ago, Jynnan tonnix said:

Now that I think about it, I realize I've always pronounced the bird as "Ee-Myoo", so the rhyme works in my world. Am I pronouncing it wrong, or is it an alternate? 

Aargh...nevermind. I just realized you were talking about the first syllable of the "Lee/Lih" rather than the emu bit. All those phonetic pronunciations threw me off 😄

For me, it's both.  I have a different vowel in the "lib" of "liberty" and the "e" of "emu," and I don't have a "y" in the "mu" in "emu."  And based on @Prevailing Wind's spellings, I think that's how it is for them, too.

[Prevailing Wind]

10 hours ago, janie jones said:

For me, it's both.  I have a different vowel in the "lib" of "liberty" and the "e" of "emu," and I don't have a "y" in the "mu" in "emu."  And based on @Prevailing Wind's spellings, I think that's how it is for them, too.

So you're saying "Leeberty" ?  Women's Leeb?

[janie jones]

2 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

So you're saying "Leeberty" ?  Women's Leeb?

No.  That's my point.  As I said, my vowel in my first syllable of "liberty" is NOT the same as my vowel in the first syllable of "emu."

[Prevailing Wind]

I get it. That's what I was saying, too. Glad to get that straightened out, because, y'know, it's SO important.  Hahahahaha.  (Well, it's got us talking about it...buying it is another whole ball o'wax.)

[funky-rat]

I've heard "Emu" pronounced both E-MOO and E-MEW.  I know people who had Emu on their farm, and they pronounced it "E-MOO".  Might be regional, because most people I know use E-MOO.  Kind of like "Puma".  I have heard both "POO-MUH" and "PEW-MUH".  Most people I know use "POO-MUH", but I've heard both.