New ccommercials are erasing my best music memories and replacing them with crap.

[gsdx]

I hate the new trend of commercials (especially drug commercials) taking all my favourite tunes from yesteryear and rewriting them. I now hear Bonnie Tyler singing, "I've got bites on all my parts and total regret in my heart."

And there is no magic in "Oh Oh Oh Ozempic."

Leave my memories alone!!

 

[Cormac135]

I totally agree with you, happily there have been a couple of adverts of late with great old music on them.

 

[gsdx]

Those are a bit different than what I'm talking about. It's doubtful you get these commercials over there:

Real Estate

Ozempic (diabetes)

 

[Vannie]

Sing a long with me now.... mi mi mi mi mi ahem....


Chock full o'Nuts is that heavenly coffee,
Heavenly coffee, heavenly coffee.
Chock full o'Nuts is that heavenly coffee,
Better coffee a millionaires money can't buy....

 

[Alistair]

Those are a bit different than what I'm talking about. It's doubtful you get these commercials over there:

Ozempic

My bad, What is the ozempic song from?

 

[Thad1527]

"Magic," by Pilot...a wonderful one-hit wonder.

 

[Telstra]

Those are a bit different than what I'm talking about. It's doubtful you get these commercials over there:

Real Estate

Ozempic (diabetes)

The problem is the quality of singing is bad.
Change the words are fine if the quality of singing is as good or better than the original singer.

 

[gsdx]

My bad, What is the ozempic song from?

This:

"Magic," by Pilot...a wonderful one-hit wonder.

(Thanks, Thad)

There are other examples where the original lyrics are being rewritten for the commercial, and they're played over and over in each commercial break (sometimes 5 or 6 times per hour) to the point where they become an earworm.

 

[Thad1527]

You're welcome.
This is the drug commercial currently irking me:

 

[gsdx]

^ That's another we get here.

Canadian stations aren't allowed to broadcast them (no prescription drugs of any kind) but they come over the American feeds all the time.

 

[Peloso]

I like the few instances where the situation is reversed; bands covering commercial jingles, especially if it's done sarcastically or with malice. I can't find a link because search engines are so dang literal, but there was a gay punk band called Go that covered the "Milk does a body good" campaign from the eighties. I suppose copyright laws keep this from happening more often.

 

[Thad1527]

And there was a New York chanteuse (maybe Sharon McNight? My memory is hazy) who covered McDonald's "You Deserve a Break Today." But she changed every mention of McDonald's to "my house." It becomes a rather seductive song..."You deserve a break today/So get up and get away/To my house!"

 

[smokeshadow]

^^Actually, Barry Manilow wrote and composed McDonald's "You Deserve a Break Today" jingle as he did a bunch of others ..

 

[m1thousand]

^ That's another we get here.

Canadian stations aren't allowed to broadcast them (no prescription drugs of any kind) but they come over the American feeds all the time.

I hadnt realized that

 

[Thad1527]

And I love what Shell does in this internet ad. Five international recording artists (including Jennifer Hudson!) perform a song. Animation tells the story.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

The problem is the quality of singing is bad.
Change the words are fine if the quality of singing is as good or better than the original singer.

You haven't heard Bonnie Tyler singing, have you?

 

[Telstra]

You haven't heard Bonnie Tyler singing, have you?

I have but that song suits her because she sang with passion.