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Is Anyone Else Bothered By Commercials Using Popular Music and Songs?

Annabellethecat66 — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 22:58:20 GMT

I know it's always been done to some degree. However, it seems like lately, just about every other commercial has a very popular song going in the background.

These are songs that were usually on some of our favorite TV shows in the past or songs that were in the top 10 at some point.

I do understand why they do it. I don't need to have it explained to me.

What I'm saying is that it frustrates me and ruins the song for me.

What I'm wondering is does anyone else feel that way or is it just me? Also, do any of you notice that it's being done more than ever?

I think the recent surge of our old favorite TV shows being 're-done' for 2018 and 2019 might have something to do with this.

Re: Is Anyone Else Bothered By Commercials Using Popular Music and Songs?

deepwaterdotter — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:03:41 GMT

I suppose someone receives royalties every time it is aired. Maybe they want the money?

Re: Is Anyone Else Bothered By Commercials Using Popular Music and Songs?

Cakers3 — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:10:01 GMT

@Annabellethecat66 It's you.

I prefer a song in place of screaming/crying/loud obnoxious speech etc.

I'm not sure how it "ruins" the song.

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Sunshine Kate — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:12:50 GMT

No, it doesn't bother me.

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handygal2 — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:31:17 GMT

For me, it depends on whether l liked the song when it was originally popular.

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Annabellethecat66 — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:40:10 GMT

@Cakers3 In my opinion it "ruins" the song because (for me) I feel I can't enjoy the song without thinking about the stupid add attached to it.

I know that's the whole purpose of the add and some would say, "It did it's job". However, for me, perhaps the opposite because then I don't care about buying whatever they're selling.

It's kind like when I get those advertising calls on my phone. I wouldn't buy whatever they're selling if I needed it and it was the one thing I needed because they've irritated me by calling me over and over and they've spoiled it for me.

Maybe it sounds weird to you, but that is my thought process. So, yes, they have ruined the song UNTIL I can get the dumb commercial out of my head......

Re: Is Anyone Else Bothered By Commercials Using Popular Music and Songs?

software — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:40:45 GMT

I care nothing about the NFL Draft but I stop to watch the commercial every time it comes on. Same graphics and music as the old TV series Dallas. Well done.

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Stevie Nix — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:44:54 GMT

I am much more bothered by the fact that many TV dramas feel a need to use a song, with lyrics, in all their shows. I occasionally put on Closed Captioning if I am having trouble making out the dialogue in show. Then CC shows me all the song lyrics along with the dialogue. I find it annoying.

Re: Is Anyone Else Bothered By Commercials Using Popular Music and Songs?

lovesrecess — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:47:25 GMT

I read that the "royalty" laws are different now and the artist, writer, etc of the song doesn't necessarily get compensated for the song being used in a commercial. As far as the popular songs being used in commercials....that's why there is a mute button, I use it often.

Re: Is Anyone Else Bothered By Commercials Using Popular Music and Songs?

Cakers3 — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:48:31 GMT

@Annabellethecat66 So for you the song becomes an "earworm" and your mind keeps playing the commercial over and over in your mind until the earmworm stops?

Some of those songs are quite old (generational) so I don't see how often one might hear them outside of the commercial.

I get what you are saying but I just don't get bothered by the songs. It's ok if you do; just trying to understand.

I tend to look at a product and remember the screaming/crying/etc. that some use to sell their products. Those commercials I turn off.

Sometimes one song will come on and I'll sing along. LOL Especially one that evokes a nice memory. I guess I attach memories and not the commercial.

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Spurt — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:49:19 GMT

If its a song I didnt like the first time it came around it bothers me .....and they repeat the limited number of commercials so frequently so I can't get the song out of my mind, and this REALLY bothers the HECK out of me!

Re: Is Anyone Else Bothered By Commercials Using Popular Music and Songs?

Annabellethecat66 — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:52:20 GMT

@lovesrecess I guess that explains it. Music was always a big part of my husband's and my life. We met at a dance and he learned to play the guitar and he'd sing.

To this day when I hear some songs I am transported back to when we'd dance to the song.

Back when we were young and when I was in high school especially, everyone I knew was in a band. Every party had a live band and every dance had live bands.

My favorite guys were the drummers. I had a soft spot for drummers. One even taught me to play the drums. Was I any good? Ummm...that would be no! That would be ....terrible...Ha!

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Silver Fox1 — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 23:53:34 GMT

So funny @Annabellethecat66, my DH just said the other night how he hates it !! I have to agree it ruines the songs for me to, not a fan

Re: Is Anyone Else Bothered By Commercials Using Popular Music and Songs?

Annabellethecat66 — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:01:20 GMT

@Cakers3 Well, to some I'm quite old too (72 this year). I can still do all of the old dances, mashed potatoes, the swim, the locomotion, the Watusi, the stroll, there are lots more but I won't bore you.

I recently watched "The Goldbergs". The show was about the "Golden Girls" but it was also about how the song can get into your head and you start singing it in your head.

After that episode it took a long time for me to get it out of my head.

I loved the way back in the 'old days' you actually knew the words to the songs and could actually sing the things. These days with so much rapping going on I don't even understand what the hay they're saying.

Now that said, one of my favorite singers (he doesn't actually sing) is Eminem...yepper, I like his "OLD" stuff, some Slim Shady...but nothing he put out this past year...it's terrible. That I can't stand.

It's funny though because I guess we won't be hearing much of those rap songs in the commercials. Some of it is so atrocious who'd want to sing (rap) to it.

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GingerPeach — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:05:26 GMT

I rather like it - depending on the song and how it's used. I also like poetry.

Does everyone remember the lines a couple of years ago from Walt Whitman's "Song of the Open Road" used in that car commercial and read, I believe, by Matthew McConaughey?

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,

Healthy, free, the world before me,

The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.

The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.

All seems beautiful to me.

And those were only excerpts.

I also loved the singer Goat's "I'm Living a Great Life" used for Ford or some other car commercial. It was snappy and fun and very inspiring. That must have been about 8-10 years ago. I bought the CD but that was the only good song!

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Elri — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:22:19 GMT

@Annabellethecat66

I know what you mean. A few years ago, they used Rhapsody in Blue for a plane commercial. George Gershwin. Really?

A lot of good songs are used to sell merchandise and it kind of cheapens the music, to me. The artists did not have products in mind when writing the music.

The problem is nobody is writing, or companies are not using, original musical jingles for their products.

On the other hand, the songwriters are most likely paid a hefty amount to let their music be used.

Money talks.

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handygal2 — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:25:34 GMT

@Stevie Nix wrote:
I am much more bothered by the fact that many TV dramas feel a need to use a song, with lyrics, in all their shows. I occasionally put on Closed Captioning if I am having trouble making out the dialogue in show. Then CC shows me all the song lyrics along with the dialogue. I find it annoying.

@Stevie Nix: Slightly off-topic, but l remember years ago l was watching Saturday Night Live. Beyoncé was singing "Bootylicious." I put on closed-captioning so l could determine the words. When the captioning spelled out "l don't think you're ready for this jelly..." then repeated it 3 times, then "'cause my body's too bootylicious for you," l started laughing, seeing those verses in writing. Lol.

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bikerbabe — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:28:22 GMT

Doesn’t bother me. I really pay close enough attention to a commercial to ever link the ad to the song in my brain.

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brandiwine — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 00:29:04 GMT

I love having the old songs brought back. Reminds me of a special time and place in my life. I don't care what they are selling. I also love hearing the old Dallas theme song as well.

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tucsongal — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 01:06:50 GMT

Sometimes I’ll find a new song or artist that I like. Case in point: “Feel it still” from iPad pro and Vitamin water ads.

”ooh woo I’m a rebel just for kicks now, I been feeling it since 1966 now” 🎶