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[stoutfellow]

Why is Kansas's song "Dust in the Wind" (And all your money won't another minute buy) being used in an automobile commercial?

Why is it being used in any commercial?

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[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. And not necessarily high school music, either. I remember the first time we heard Joe Jackson being played in a grocery store; I thought maybe the clerks had played a joke on management (g), but no. New Wave was now *mainstream* enough to be considered Muzak!

The worst offender, IMHO? The Cadillac commercials. I'm not sure what exactly the song is, but I hated it when it was popular, too. But the whole idea of using raucous rock music to get the buying public to see Cadillacs as *hip* and *cool* floors me. But I am prejudiced; I still have the image of a lady in late middle age (NOT my age, you understand (g)) in a long fur coat next to a bald, high-pressure kind of guy, smoking a fat cigar and driving all over the road. (How silly of me to hold a grudge for so long, innit? (g))

[(Anonymous)]

I remember the first time I heard the Beatles as Muzak. I was about eight, but my older sister was a big Beatles fan, and I can remember it giving me the shudders even then.

I really had no business cringing, though. My first husband was a Beatles fan, and a musician, and I wound up walking down the aisle to "And I Love Her" played on the organ (he'd recorded it himself). I *must* have loved him. There's really no other excuse.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

BTW, that last comment was me (g).

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

*That* is a great story!!