2007
i guess it’s just what i must do
maura @ 9:04 pm
Why do I have an ad for some crazy cookie running through my head right now? Well it all started a coupla weeks ago when Gus came home from school singing a song. That in and of itself is noteworthy, since he’s typically kind of anti-music (shocking, I know!).
So he’s singing to himself, and I can just barely make it out: “don’t you want me baby, don’t you want me baby.” And I am thinking, WHO is playing the Human League for that kid?! It can’t be me, because I only have that song on vinyl and the turntable is not hooked up right now.
It seemed likely that one of his friends at school was singing it, and Jonathan suggested that maybe the song is being sampled in a current pop/r+b hit tune. I googled the song title, but I found nothing popular music-ish.
Here’s what I did find: a cookie commercial (that supposedly aired during the Super Bowl last year). We neither watch (live) TV nor football (of any sort), so of course we hadn’t seen this. But it seems like a promising suspect, no?
I called Gus in to watch the commercial on YouTube, and then we had to watch the other commercial, too. And here I am, two weeks later. Oi oi oi!
3 comments on “i guess it’s just what i must do”
Am I old and hypocritical for finding the use of The Clash in credit card commercials outrageous? Rolling Stones? Fine. But not Mick and Joe and Paul and Topper! Ah, bloody hell. The ones that are left probably need the money…
I have completely mixed feelings about ads in commercials. To this day I feel like I should buy a volkswagen when I hear the Ivy song “Beautiful.” But I remember reading an article about the Apples in Stereo and they were saying that it was really great to get some actual money from one of their songs, and it made me think that well, a lot of these bands *do* probably need the money.
Oh that commercial airs pretty often in the afternoon.
Sad that they use that song, sad that I know the commercial.