Still i don`t think it is a good idea to use Beatles` songs in commercials and make them associated with pizza or shampoo, which inevitably will happen in that case. They should connect to our spiritual not material nature. They could be used for soundtracks, for example. As for Beatles bags, ambrellas and ash trays, that`s ok, there`s no harm in it. Maybe because these are personal things, which one loves.

We were at Target today, checking out the LCD HDTV's.............we did buy one........and on all the display models, "Hello/Goodbuy" version was playing.............

It's makes me upset when they try to be "cute" and make it into "goodbuy" versus the original lyric.  Otherwise I don't have much of a problem with it.

^^^^^^^^^^^^Agreed..............

Has anyone read what Lennon said about this song? "Three minutes of contradictions and meaningless juxtapositions."  

Personally, I think he knew better. He was just annoyed it got the A side. I Am the Walrus is a GREAT song, but this song obviously hits a chord with people in a different way. It gets tremendous radio play and now with this commercial it's taken on a whole new life. It's a great pop song that's lasted over forty years.

I think it's easy to criticize songs like this by turning to the whole music snobbery attitude of every song having to be "deep" and meaningful. But in the end, I think it's just jealousy. Having a gift for melody is nothing to turn your nose up over. And again, I think Lennon really knew that deep down. Sour grapes.

I have just written in another thread that the song I Am The Walrus appeals to you more the more you listen to it. It gets into your head and sticks there and becomes your obsession. I know a lot of people who admit to their surprise that the greatest Beatles` song for them now is Walrus!

Quoted from Jane

I have just written in another thread that the song I Am The Walrus appeals to you more the more you listen to it. It gets into your head and sticks there and becomes your obsession. I know a lot of people who admit to their surprise that the greatest Beatles` song for them now is Walrus!

I LOVE I Am the Walrus, but I think Hello Goodbye is a bit more accessible to non-Beatle fans. It's just pure pop. I was mainly addressing one of Lennon's bitter rants towards Paul's "lighter" side. I really think it was jealousy on some level. Has Paul ever criticized a Lennon song? That would be interesting to know. I have no idea.

I think you can read Hello Goodbye in different ways. Recently I've begun thinking about it as being sung from the point of a view of a guy who can't accept that his girl is leaving him. On the other hand, maybe I'm overthinking it. nd as I've mentioned before, I have a strong dislike for I Am the Walrus.

In any case it doesn't deserve to be cheapened in this way.

I was sitting in the bank yesterday, having some funds transferred around, and I look up on the plasma TV the bank has on the wall and what do I see.........the Jonas Brothers doing "Hello/Goodbuy" for Target................sacrilege!!!!!

Quoted from DarkSweetLady

I saw one comercial with the Jonas Brothers singing Hello Goodbye for a Target commercial, that I wasn't to fond about.  

Yeah, that just adds insult to injury. Jonas Brothers are NOT the next Beatles! Kids at my school keep saying "Oh, they're just the second Beatles" What are they talking about??? They are not anything like them, save for the fact that loads of young girls have crushes on one (or more) of them. I feel like one of my older teachers when I tell them that the JB are
NOTHING like the Beatles. What the HELL has the world come to?

I don't really have a problem with it, but the jonas brother singing "hello goodbuy" i REALLY do. The Beatles are ROCK N ROLL, a genre dedicated to rebellion and anti-capitalism and this is what it's being used for. Target and the Jonas brothers are the two biggest faces of what the Beatles didn't like, IMO.

Plus it just makes me mad when whenever you sing Hello, Goodbye now some kid will say "That's FROM a commericial!!" NO. It's not FROM a commericial.  

Eww! There's a new Target commercial where they RAP Hello Goodbye. Rap. They turned a Beatles song into a rap song!
Someone make a petition with me!

^^^^^I know.  I heard that and just about threw-up...............ewwwwww..............

*bludgeons self with mallet to shake idea of Jonas Brothers and Rap versions of Hello Goodbye out of head*

Quoted from Mairi

*bludgeons self with mallet to shake idea of Jonas Brothers and Rap versions of Hello Goodbye out of head*

I'm right there with you.  It's like the Jonas Brothers... REALLY????  You have to admit, they're the most popular thing since sliced bread to the tween demographic but COME ON!  Beatles DO NOT equal JB, in fact The Beatles >>>> the Jonas Brothers and the Joans Brothers are about equal to a rap version of Hello Goodbye (which I have still yet to hear but I'm sure that I'll be bludgering myself with a mallet too!)