iPlay: Shiny Toy Guns
March 5, 2010 by NaysWay · Leave a Comment
I’m really beginning to hate car commercials. And car insurance commercials. I don’t know who began the trend, but ad agencies the world over have tapped into the popular-song-as-marketing-gimmick gravy train. Maybe I wouldn’t hate these car and car insurance commercials so much if those ad agencies weren’t so smart and g-darn successful in having me walking away, singing a tune to a song I had no intention of having stuck in my brain.
So thank you State Farm Insurance. Thank you Lincoln MKT. You’ve almost become as bad as Coca-Cola (and those were the early years).
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Artist: Shiny Toy Guns
Song: Major Tom (Coming Home)
Album: Girls Le Disko (2009)
Heard on: Lincoln MKT commercial
FEAR says: Hearing this song only makes me think of this guy who sang nothing but David Bowie songs throughout The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (one of my favorite Wes Anderson movies).
