Now they're playing Come and Get It in some commercial constantly. Which is technically a Beatles song right? I've seen the commerical a million times and I can't even remember what it's for. That's how effective it is. Also, last Christmas didn't Target play another Beatles song? Love Me Do or Please, Please Me? One of the early ones. I can't remember.
What's wrong with using Beatles song for commercials anyway?
I have no problem with it, and I don't understand why anybody does. I don't think it belittles the music or the group. If it wasn't a great song then it wouldn't get used. So it's to their credit isn't it?
I just want you to reassure him - talk to him, make him see the error of his ways. Then I'll hit him.
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--you know, when I started this thread, I was confusing the Beatles with the Doors. It was the Doors who refused to let their songs get used for commercials. My bad.
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Although it is rather sad to admit, I have discovered a lot of good music via commercials over the years! The most notable being The Sonics whose "Have Love Will Travel" nearly made me fall off my chair when I first heard it - it was on a Land Rover advert!!
I was horrified at the use of Revolution in the notorious Nike advert some years back. But I think that maybe it's time to stop being so protective of The Beatles' catalogue - if the music is being played it wont be heard, and adverts are are a huge commercial for the music they utilise as well as the products they promote.
Quite right. We shouldn't slag off advertisers for using Beatles songs, and then on the other hand be quite happy for them to use the music of other artists. If we do, it has a bit of the arrogant, stuck up or own arses 'we're better than you are' attitude.
I just want you to reassure him - talk to him, make him see the error of his ways. Then I'll hit him.
I'm fairly pissed off myself...I first saw the Target commercial right after seeing a clip on an on-TV movie that featured someone singing 'Back In The USSR', so it was pretty bizarre. I found the ad itself not very tasteful and quite saddening. Save Darfur and all that I can understand...but...toilet paper? Come on. They deserve better. *shakes head*
--you know, when I started this thread, I was confusing the Beatles with the Doors. It was the Doors who refused to let their songs get used for commercials. My bad.
Paul wasn't happy with the Nike ad: “the song was about revolution, not bloody tennis shoes.”
Speaking of commercials, does anyone remember the Pizza Hut commercial Ringo did back in '95?
Ringo is seen in a commercial talking about a reunion with the lads. In the end, it is not the Beatles, but 3 of the Monkees, eating their pizza crust first for Pizza Hut's stuffed crust pizza.
"Dont take life seriously, you'll never get out of it alive"
Me and my mom were watching TV together and i just finished hearing The Hippy Hippy Shake on a commercial about losing weight. so i said, "i wonder how many people actually know where that song is from. . ." and my mom responds "they've been playing alot of music i grew up with lately!" so after that commercial we started to really pay attention to all the ads and any type of old song references. We heard Let Em' In on a commercial about old people and health. then we saw the Luvs diaper commercial where the slogan was 'All you need is Luvs!'
Target'. as we say down here...............(my husband works for the Target warehouse here in town, and I worked there, too, when I worked)............had to do the song a little more "modern-trippy" sounding, I think.
"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe. Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind, Possessing and caressing me." "About a lucky man who made the grade" "I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you."
I think a Beatles song is not to be exploited for any kind of commercial. The Beatles saw each of their songs as a personal/group statement. Such is not to be used to sell tennis shoes, toilet paper, or even rolls royce automobiles.
I am not sure who owns their song catalogue right now, but I really think this commercial use is in poor taste. All the more so, considering that the meaning of the songs does not relate in any way to the products advertised.
Agreed, Spier. That's why the late Neil Aspinall saw to it that none of this would ever happen..........."cheapens the Beatles' image" as Neil once put it.........
I think a Beatles song is not to be exploited for any kind of commercial. The Beatles saw each of their songs as a personal/group statement. Such is not to be used to sell tennis shoes, toilet paper, or even rolls royce automobiles.
I am not sure who owns their song catalogue right now, but I really think this commercial use is in poor taste. All the more so, considering that the meaning of the songs does not relate in any way to the products advertised.
Sorry, but that made me smile. The Beatles and exploitation? Never! Now3 where is my Beatle ash tray, lunchbox, wig, square inch of bed sheet (personally authorised off course), pencil case....... The Beatles practically invented exploitation when it comes to popular music.
I don't like that it isn't the Beatles singing the song, but I do like that it does open the door for the new generation to discover the Beatles. I saw one comercial with the Jonas Brothers singing Hello Goodbye for a Target commercial, that I wasn't to fond about.
The Come and Get It song was used for a Department store, like Lazaurus or, Macy's or Kauffman's something like that. I remember seeing it to. But it wasn't the Beatle version.
That Pizza Hut comercial cracked me up. But I wonder what they are going to do with two drummers?
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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.............
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!
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.
You're so vain, you probably think this post is about you.
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!!!!!
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?
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