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Repurposed Pop Song
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So there's this song from your youth. Whenever you listen to it, it brings back a whole lot of good memories, and you end up going through the rest of your day with a smile. What better tune to use to advertise a product? Advertising is all about appealing to emotion to make a sale, and few things hold more unalloyed positive emotion than a favorite song. It's not surprising that the advertising industry very quickly seized upon the idea of buying the rights to a song and using it in an ad. The basic argument is that the good feelings the viewer has for the song will be transferred at least in part to the product, making a new customer or reinforcing an existing one. As virtually everyone will tell you, it doesn't always work. But that doesn't keep the agencies from trying again and again. Apparently this practice "works" often enough in the sense of selling enough of the product to make the practice economically sustainable, no matter how artistically objectionable. Spam email has to work on somebody too, right? This practice come in several varieties: Played straight. Usually the most expensive option. The agency bought the rights to the specific recording that everyone knows. It's used almost untouched except possibly for a bit of editing to make it fit the length of the commercial, or to get right away to the "good bits" (i.e., the part that has relevance to the commercial's pitch). Cover version. The agency didn't buy (or couldn't afford) the rights to the actual recording, so instead they acquired the right to use the song itself and did their own version. Sometimes it's made as close to the original as possible; sometimes it's wildly different. Moody Trailer Cover Song applies this logic to trailers. Product-specific lyrics. An extension of the "Cover Version". The song's lyrics are rewritten to extol the virtues of the product. This can have the biggest backlash if potential customers feel the original song is somehow "cheapened" or "ruined", so this treatment is often reserved for older or more obscure music. You will sometimes even encounter altered versions of popular songs being used in really low-budget commercials or when they just couldn't afford the song they really wanted. (See that page for examples) These commercials can also have an instrumental or acoustic version of the song while a disembodied voice talks about the product/service/help line/donation. An agency with an especially low budget (or high concept) might also do any of the above with a song from the public domain, up to and including nursery rhymes. This has much the same effect, but with fewer lawyers and a lot less money involved. A song can also be instantly repurposed if an advertiser buys the rights before it's even released. In such cases the commercial use hits the airwaves at the same time as the original song, or sometimes before, and effectively turns it into a Celebrity Endorsement. Repurposing a pop song can have a Broken Aesop effect if the message of the song is subtler than you'd get by listening to the loudest parts of the lyrics. For example, there is a movement to make Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" the official state song of New Jersey, despite the fact that it's about how terrible it is to live in New Jersey and how much the songwriter wanted to leave. (See Isn't It Ironic?.) Seth Stevenson has written two articles for Slate about this. Contrast with Top Ten Jingle. Compare Moody Trailer Cover Song, The Cover Changes the Meaning, Rewritten Pop Version, Isn't It Ironic?, Real Song Theme Tune. |
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Speaking of Google, another commercial of theirs used the Daryl Hall & John Oates song "Maneater". | |
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For several years, NASCAR used Metallica's "Fuel" as a theme song. A pulse-pounding song about the thrills, and dangers, of street racing, with an addiction subtext. They even forgot to censor a Precision F-Strike in one of the lyrics. | |
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The Six Flags commercials featuring "Mr. Six" used an instrumental version of "We Like to Party" by the Vengaboys. Kids' WB! had a promo for The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries in which Tweety leads the entire Kid's WB lineup in chanting "We like da puddy!" Sylvester finishes it by saying "And I like the Tweety!" and swallowing Tweety. |
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Google also once used the song for a commercial for their signature search engine. | |
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A yogurt commercial in the UK featured the song 'I Got Life' from the musical Hair. Unfortunately, the song is about a hippie explaining to his square parents just how much more awesome, cool, and alive his drug-addled self is than they are. Someone seemed to notice this, and the adverts now come with an awkward re-written cover describing the myriad flavours available. | |
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In 2010, Macy's controversially used the song "Seasons of Love" (a song about measuring one's last moments) to sell jewelry. The use of only straight couples (the musical itself had a Cast Full of Gay) didn't help matters, either. | |
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The Addams Family is an example of a "repurposed TV theme song". In the early 1990s, the now-defunct HomeClub Warehouse chain used a version of the theme for its commercials. At least one other commercial has used this theme, also in the 90s; a commercial for Nestlé Buncha Crunch. |
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Their song "Carry On" was also used in a late 2016 promo for NBC's Today. | |
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"Where Everybody Knows Your Name", best known as the Cheers theme song, appears in State Farm insurance ads, minus the line about always being glad you came. Presumably, being glad that people are coming to them with insurance claims after various misfortunes would convey the wrong image. The song is also used in a 2014 Chevrolet Cruze clean diesel car commercial: The ad starts with a man coming into a gas station where they greet him by name as the song plays. Then another man comes in and the song stops. He's got a clean diesel car so he rarely has to buy gas; nobody there knows his name. |
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Two similar campaigns for electronic devices ran 15 years apart. The iMac in 2000 ran four commercials, each advertising their ruby, indigo, sage, and snow computers with Dion and the Belmonts' "Ruby", Elvis Presley's "Blue Suede Shoes", The Muppets' "Bein' Green" and Cream's "White Room" respectively. During the 2015 Christmas season, Google advertised their Nexus phone with a commercial set to Darlene Love's version of "Marshmallow World". Both campaigns had similar visuals and an emphasis on older music making for a Hilarious in Hindsight moment. | |
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The Japanese commercial for the original Kirby's Adventure uses a parody of "Neko Funjatta" ("I Stepped on the Cat"); an example of a "repurposed nursery rhyme". | |
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One local ABC affiliate used to promote their airings of two episodes of Full House in a row with a version of Madness' "Our House" that changed the chorus to "Hour House" (since it's a half-hour show and all). "Our House" was also used, with new lyrics, in ads for Maxwell House coffee around 2005-2006. |
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A good deal of the promotion for Inside Out used the song "More Than a Feeling" by Boston, introducing new audiences to the decades-old song. Ditto for Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion". Speaking of Inside Out, the How It Should Have Ended video about that movie closes on a short parody of "Don't You Forget About Me" (the theme song to The Breakfast Club) with the lyrics changed to be about Bing Bong, which might have caused some younger generations to associate the (actual) song with him. The actual song itself was used in this State Farm ad, as well as this AT&T ad and this Walmart commercial. |
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The theme of Totally Spies! was Moonbaby's "Here We Go," with its lyrics rewritten. | |
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As of 2015 it's been used by King Games in commercials for Candy Crush Saga. | |
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Teen Titans Go! has two examples: "We're Rich", a parody of the theme song to DuckTales (1987), and "The Pee-Pee Dance", which is a repurposed version of Trick Daddy's "Take It To Da House". The latter also played in "Waffles" as background music. | |
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"Everybody's Talkin'" by Harry Nilsson was originally written by Fred Neil but became famous as the song from Midnight Cowboy and Nilsson's version is often billed as the theme from Midnight Cowboy. Harry Nilsson's "Coconut" was used in the 2005 Coke Lime commercials with the chorus mondegreened to, "You put the lime in the Coke, you nut..." |
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The Dandy Warhols' song Bohemian Like You was used for a Pontiac car commercial. The first line makes sense, "You got a great car", but fans of the group were singing the next line, "yeah, what's wrong with it today". | |
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Kirby: The U.S. commercial for Kirby Nightmare In Dreamland used a parody of Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers. The Japanese commercial for the original Kirby's Adventure uses a parody of "Neko Funjatta" ("I Stepped on the Cat"); an example of a "repurposed nursery rhyme". |
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Though he did allow All Elite Wrestling head Tony Khan to use his "Ol' 55" in the promotion's memorial video for the recently departed Mr. Brodie Lee, with AEW buying rights to the song so that the video would never have to be re-edited. Then again, that particular use isn't exactly commercial. | |
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Samsung used the song "Signal in the Sky" by indie rockers The Apples in Stereo in a 2008 ad for one of their phones. This makes the ad painfully hard to take seriously if you know the song, as it was inspired by The Powerpuff Girls, who even appear in a Cartoon Network Groovie which was made at the height of the show's popularity during the Turn of the Millennium. | |
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The defunct UK supermarket William Low had an ad that reworked "Down and Out" from Bugsy Malone to be about how they kept their prices down. | |
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| Repurposed Pop Song / int_4b40dfd | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_4b40dfd | comment |
The oddly-named Citroën C4 Cactus car was advertised using Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit. A song that extols the virtues of changing your state of perception by doing lots and lots of lovely LSD. Now let's drive a car in this state. Yeah, right. If you don't crash it or provoke a road accident because of all those dope-smoking caterpillars, self-animating chess pieces, red queens with axes, white rabbits, et c, popping up out of holes in the verge, here comes Mr. Policeman who discovers you to be intoxicated on Substances. Your trip now becomes a very bad one to the cells of the local nick. Yeah, right. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_4b40dfd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_4b40dfd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jefferson Starship (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_4b40dfd | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_4d6f2b12 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_4d6f2b12 | comment |
The song is used in a bitterly ironic way in Roger & Me to contrast the problems that happened to Flint, Michigan at the time. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_4d6f2b12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_4d6f2b12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Roger & Me | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_4d6f2b12 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_5889f62b | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_5889f62b | comment |
The song "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin'' has been used in commercials for CareSource health insurance. And his "Thinkin' About Your Body" was reworked to advertise Cadbury's chocolate in the UK, with the lines "Thinkin' about your body / Thinkin' about your face" changed to "Thinkin' about your choc'late / Thinkin' about your taste". |
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| Repurposed Pop Song / int_5889f62b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_5889f62b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bobby McFerrin (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_5889f62b | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_5b3356f8 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_5b3356f8 | comment |
A trailer for Turning Red uses *NSYNC's "It's Gonna Be Me" with a line edited from "You might been hurt, babe" to "You might been hurt, Mei". | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_5b3356f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_5b3356f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Turning Red | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_5b3356f8 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_65d63713 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_65d63713 | comment |
Bizarrely, it was also sung by the children's TV character Bob the Builder, obviously with different lyrics. It was used to advertise Ford motor vehicles in Australia, a few months BEFORE it became a huge hit in Oz. |
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| Repurposed Pop Song / int_65d63713 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_65d63713 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bob the Builder | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_65d63713 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6ac55ec7 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6ac55ec7 | comment |
One car company chose to advertise its work with the New Radicals' You Get What You Give, which is predominantly about refusing to surrender (and also states a willingness to kick celebrities' asses...really). How this is related to cars, Vecna only knows. Let's not forget the line "Every night we crash a Mercedes Benz"... A few years ago Mitsubishi's Australian ad campaign was also based around "You Get What You Give." Refuge in Audacity, or corporate ignorance? |
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| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6ac55ec7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6ac55ec7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_6ac55ec7 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6c1d09b3 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6c1d09b3 | comment |
Fallout 3: "I don't want to set the world on fire..." (This is a deliberate case of Soundtrack Dissonance.) Pretty much happening to lots of other songs repurposed for video games. Especially Rhythm games. Moonlight Shadow remixed in DanceDanceRevolution? Hello Mood Whiplash! Older readers may remember this song being used for a Perfume Commercial (Chanel No. 5). An early work by director Ridley Scott, you can see it here. |
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| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6c1d09b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6c1d09b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fallout 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_6c1d09b3 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6d6f8656 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6d6f8656 | comment |
It seems to be a "Perfect Day" to go to a Beaches report for a vacation (the song in question was performed by Hoku for the Legally Blonde soundtrack; the song in the commercial is a cover)... The Sandals resort also wants you to come to their "Island in the Sun", as advertised through a cover version of the Weezer song of the same title that sounds almost indistinguishable from the original (besides the replacement of Rivers Cuomo with some studio singer.) Another Sandals ad uses a version of the Black Eyed Peas song "I Gotta Feeling" with lyrics from "(I've Had) The Time of My Life". What makes this mashup curious is that the group actually did do a song that Sampled Up the latter ("The Time (Dirty Bit)"). |
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| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6d6f8656 | featureApplicability |
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| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6d6f8656 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Legally Blonde | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_6d6f8656 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6e94492 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6e94492 | comment |
Speaking of Inside Out, the How It Should Have Ended video about that movie closes on a short parody of "Don't You Forget About Me" (the theme song to The Breakfast Club) with the lyrics changed to be about Bing Bong, which might have caused some younger generations to associate the (actual) song with him. The actual song itself was used in this State Farm ad, as well as this AT&T ad and this Walmart commercial. |
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| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6e94492 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6e94492 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| How It Should Have Ended (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_6e94492 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6eb4ca5c | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6eb4ca5c | comment |
The ending theme of the first season of Jackie Chan Adventures (when the station actually played it) was a snippet of a Wheatus song credited as "Jackie Chan's The Man". In truth, the song is nothing more than relevant lyrics written over their earlier song "Punk Ass Bitch". The makers of the program wised on to the Credits Pushback and the other seasons simply used the title music for the credits. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6eb4ca5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_6eb4ca5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackie Chan Adventures | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_6eb4ca5c | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_7832b74c | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_7832b74c | comment |
A fictional example. Greg from Steven Universe became a multi-millionaire due to his ex-manager from the 80s repurposing one of his songs into a burger jingle. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_7832b74c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_7832b74c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Steven Universe | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_7832b74c | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_7d5e43b0 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_7d5e43b0 | comment |
The Goodies` theme song Goody Goody Yum Yum was used to advertise wine gums, the lyrics altered to Goody Goody Yum Gums. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_7d5e43b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_7d5e43b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Goodies | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_7d5e43b0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_7e36333c | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_7e36333c | comment |
Cadbury did an ad for their Caramello Koala candy bars where the mascot sang a jingle spoofing the Donovan song "Mellow Yellow". | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_7e36333c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_7e36333c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Donovan (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_7e36333c | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_8124a34e | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_8124a34e | comment |
In 2009, Barbie commercials used the chorus from Aqua's "Barbie Girl" as background music (albeit replacing the "you can brush my hair/undress me everywhere" lyrics with "You can be a star, don't matter who you are"),bringing the memetic hit full circle. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_8124a34e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_8124a34e | featureConfidence |
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| Barbie (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_8124a34e | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_8382c19a | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_8382c19a | comment |
At the height of the song's popularity, Kohl's used a product-specific cover of Rebecca Black's "Friday" to promote their Black Friday sale. Some of the ads do involve a little Lampshade Hanging about what an annoying Earworm it is. Became Hilarious in Hindsight one Black Friday, when Rebecca Black herself tweeted, "Today is literally my day lol". |
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| Repurposed Pop Song / int_8382c19a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_8382c19a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Friday (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_8382c19a | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_83b57b51 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_83b57b51 | comment |
The same year, the song was played at the very beginning of Minions. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_83b57b51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_83b57b51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Minions | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_83b57b51 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_847ff18b | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_847ff18b | comment |
During the 1970s, the then-called Plymouth Arrow (now called Mitsubishi Lancer A70), used the Harry Nilsson song "Me and My Arrow" from The Point. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_847ff18b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_847ff18b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Point | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_847ff18b | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_853937a3 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_853937a3 | comment |
In late Spring 2006, Hampton Inns ran a commercial featuring a rewrite of "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" from My Fair Lady. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_853937a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_853937a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| My Fair Lady (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_853937a3 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_89c084b2 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_89c084b2 | comment |
The Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up" for Microsoft Windows 95. Note the Broken Aesop variant here; the next line to the song, not appearing in the commercial itself, is "You make a grown man cry." Another line not used is "I can't compete", which some snarkier types have found quite amusing in light of Microsoft's apparent monopolistic ambitions, coupled with notorious quality control problems (especially in the area of security). They actually tried to buy R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It" which would have probably been even worse; however the band turned them down. On the same boat, MS tried to use "21st Century Digital Boy" by Bad Religion, which is about overreliance on technology and the negative effect it has. |
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| Repurposed Pop Song / int_89c084b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_89c084b2 | featureConfidence |
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| The Rolling Stones (Band) (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_89c084b2 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_8d81bb26 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_8d81bb26 | comment |
Fall Out Boy's "Sugar, We're Goin Down" was featured in an ad for NCIS, an ad for the Tim Allen family film Zoom, and nearly showed up on Kidz Bop...until Fall Out Boy and their management intervened due to the song's sexual themes. Songs (with no subtle sexual themes this time around) from "Save Rock and Roll" like "The Phoenix" and "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light 'Em Up)" have been used in many trailers for action-packed shows, movies, and sports promos. In fact, the instrumental for "Centuries", from the album released after SRAR, was used in an ESPN promo a month before the song was officially released; they proceeded to use it throughout the season to hype up the inaugural College Football Playoff, where ESPN would ultimately play the song so much that Fall Out Boy actually apologized for it becoming an annoyance to college football fans. |
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| Repurposed Pop Song / int_8d81bb26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_8d81bb26 | featureConfidence |
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| NCIS | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_8d81bb26 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_90ab7fe1 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_90ab7fe1 | comment |
In 1997, ABC used a re-written version of "Respect" for a Recess commercial, changing the lyrics to be about the show, and the chorus was changed to "R-E-C-E-S-S". | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_90ab7fe1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_90ab7fe1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Recess | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_90ab7fe1 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_92ef018a | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_92ef018a | comment |
Canadian restaurant chain Boston Pizza ran a series of TV ads featuring repurposed versions of Yello's "Oh Yeah". | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_92ef018a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_92ef018a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_92ef018a | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_9401e4b4 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_9401e4b4 | comment |
The most notable one is Butterfly by Smile.dk, which is often used for toy cellphones. It was even used for an official toy for the Korean release of Suite Pretty Cure ♪. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_9401e4b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_9401e4b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Smile.dk (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_9401e4b4 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_94d59990 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_94d59990 | comment |
Disney caused controversy by using Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life" in a trailer for The Tigger Movie, despite not actually using the lyrics about drugs and sex. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_94d59990 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_94d59990 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Third Eye Blind (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_94d59990 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_9ad7adc8 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_9ad7adc8 | comment |
Toyota used the song "Bargain" by The Who - emphasizing the lines "I call that a bargain / the best I ever had." It's actually a song about how love is better than material possessions. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_9ad7adc8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_9ad7adc8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Who (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_9ad7adc8 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_9cda0a55 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_9cda0a55 | comment |
The PBS show History Detectives has the song "Watching the Detectives", a 1977 song by Elvis Costello, which is about...a woman who would rather watch TV (specifically, detective dramas) than make love. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_9cda0a55 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_9cda0a55 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Elvis Costello (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_9cda0a55 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a532a347 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a532a347 | comment |
Sheryl Crow's "Every Day Is A Winding Road" for the Subaru Impreza and Nissan Silvia. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a532a347 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a532a347 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sheryl Crow (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_a532a347 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a66b3bbc | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a66b3bbc | comment |
Pretty much happening to lots of other songs repurposed for video games. Especially Rhythm games. Moonlight Shadow remixed in DanceDanceRevolution? Hello Mood Whiplash! | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a66b3bbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a66b3bbc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| DanceDanceRevolution (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_a66b3bbc | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a6992283 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a6992283 | comment |
While arguably most of the "product-specific lyrics" versions of this trope are with classic rock or older pop songs, the Southern US discount furniture chain Rooms To Go has jumped on board with a version of the The Black Eyed Peas song "My Humps" rewritten to be about storage containers (sample lyric: "Whatcha gonna do with all that stuff/All that stuff, that's quite enough!"). This commercial has seen a lot of airplay on Southern NBC affiliates in the latter part of The New '10s with a song that is barely a decade old. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a6992283 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a6992283 | featureConfidence |
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| The Black Eyed Peas (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_a6992283 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a8729c90 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a8729c90 | comment |
Before Swiffer, though, rewritten versions of "Whip It" were used in at least three other commercials: Gateway, Pringles, and a promo ad on Nickelodeon for The Fairly OddParents! merchandise (with the chorus changed to "Wish it good!") | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a8729c90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_a8729c90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Fairly OddParents! | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_a8729c90 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_ac8a13bd | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_ac8a13bd | comment |
British shoe company Clarks used "Birdhouse In Your Soul" by the same group as a Stealth Pun. The ad in question featured giant kids running around a city. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_ac8a13bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_ac8a13bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Flood (They Might Be Giants) (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_ac8a13bd | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_b0fc9724 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_b0fc9724 | comment |
Saturday Night Live did a skit about this: a commercial for an album of classic songs that parents and teens could enjoy together—the parents because they grew up listening to them, the kids because they knew them from commercials. The Beach Boys/Sunkist example above was one of the selections. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_b0fc9724 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_b0fc9724 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Saturday Night Live | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_b0fc9724 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_b5942ee6 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_b5942ee6 | comment |
A cover of the song was used in an episode of Timon & Pumbaa, but with the lyrics changed to be about the duo's Trademark Favorite Food of bugs. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_b5942ee6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_b5942ee6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Timon & Pumbaa | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_b5942ee6 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_b597d543 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_b597d543 | comment |
Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold" is now selling VW Jettas. Strange, considering Ted is well-known to be from Detroit/Michigan. Also, there are lyrics, that one wouldn't normally consider family-friendly. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_b597d543 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_b597d543 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ted Nugent (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_b597d543 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_bd54ba07 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_bd54ba07 | comment |
Marks & Spencer had a disturbing Christmas commercial with a children's choir singing "Falling In Love Again" from the film The Blue Angel. Most people don't realize the full implications of the song. The original song is "what Blazing Saddles was parodying with "I'm Tired" - a song sung from the perspective of a jaded seductress about how so many men destroy themselves out of a desire for her. (Come to think of it, that sort of song is appropriate for a corporation...) | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_bd54ba07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_bd54ba07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blazing Saddles | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_bd54ba07 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_c274e61 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_c274e61 | comment |
Here's another example from Japan-AKB48 partnered up with Baitoru, a Japanese website that helps people find part-time jobs that pay 1,000 yen note $8.33 in USD and higher to their workers each day, to produce a version of their hit song "Heavy Rotation" with the lyrics changed to be about Baitoru. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_c274e61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_c274e61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| AKB48 (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_c274e61 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_c95e9d87 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_c95e9d87 | comment |
Atlanta superstation Peachtree TV has aired a commercial that sets "Married Life", the main theme from Up, to the life cycle of a package of strawberries. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_c95e9d87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_c95e9d87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Up | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_c95e9d87 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_cc981c6 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_cc981c6 | comment |
An ad campaign for the Kingsford Charcoal Grill Company with the slogan "Slow down and Grill" features a bizarre psychedelic cover of The Human League's "Keep Feeling (Fascination)." | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_cc981c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_cc981c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Human League (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_cc981c6 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_d34700e | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_d34700e | comment |
The UK frozen fish company Young's not only rewrote Slade's "Far, Far Away" to be about fish 'n' chips, they got Noddy Holder to perform it. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_d34700e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_d34700e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Slade (Music) | hasFeature |
Repurposed Pop Song / int_d34700e | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_ddd4b174 | type |
Repurposed Pop Song | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_ddd4b174 | comment |
An advertisement for Monopoly Electronic Banking Edition features Jessie J's "Price Tag" rewritten to go "It's all about the money, money". Yes, the exact opposite of what the original song says. | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_ddd4b174 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Repurposed Pop Song / int_ddd4b174 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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The trailers for Flubber used the song KC And The Sunshine Band's "Get Down Tonight" with the lyrics changed to "Goo a little dance/make a little flub/get down tonight". | |
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A dating website aimed at married women ran an advertisement that took Schoolhouse Rock!'s "Interjection" and rewrote the lyrics to be about cheating on your husband. The animation was even in Schoolhouse Rock style, with bubble letters writing "Infidelity" when it came up in the song | |
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A cover of the song by Atomic Kitten was used in commercials for Thomas and the Magic Railroad. | |
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"Sunday Morning" sounds pretty, and its lyrics are the least defiantly offensive on the LP The Velvet Underground & Nico. But on an LP notorious for topics including heroin addiction, masochism, brutal street life, obsession resembling Persona (1966), domestic violence, death and fashion victims [pause for breath], a cynical song could easily appear benign, in contrast. | |
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As for examples that completely miss the point of the song at hand, there's a Citroen C3 commercial that features Simple Plan's song "Welcome to My Life" where every material possession of a family gets instantly upgraded according to the catchline "If you want more: change your life. Change your car". The song itself has an upbeat melody, the lyrics, though? Yes, this is the whole chorus. And yes, you can hear it all in the ad itself. |
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Part of West Side Story's "I Feel Pretty" was used in a diaper commercial (replacing replacing "gay" with "dry"). | |
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While on the subject of Bowie, a Cadillac commercial used "Fame" as the background music, without realizing the song is not at all about luxury, but about how being famous is a bit of a drag. | |
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