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).
iPlay: Kansas
February 12, 2010 by NaysWay · Leave a Comment
Corporate marketing teams, those tricky devils, are getting even trickier with their tricks. The viewing public no longer watches commercials. With DVRs and internet watching, who has time for ads? Especially after the painfully pitiful attempt to show people what they were missing during this year’s Super Bowl, it added more indicators to the list of reasons why not. (Charles Barkley rapping about Taco Bell. For serious?) Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Artist: Kansas
Hooray for those that get it right, though. I have to say, after I heard this song playing on a State Farm commercial, paired with the cute little bespeckled dude playing air drums to the beat in his car, I’ll have to admit. I acquired a new-found appreciation for the song and the band. So I uploaded their catalogue onto Rock Band. Because that’s how music appreciation is done in the 21st century. Respect.
Song: Song Point of Know Return
Album: Point of Know Return (1977)
Heard on: This State Farm commercial
FEAR Says: Ever want a greater appreciation for a song? Play it on RockBand. Carry On My Wayward Son is still the best listen and hard to play. Oy, my scabula.
iPlay: Miriam Makeba
February 5, 2010 by NaysWay · Leave a Comment
I heard this song on a commercial for a car. It drove me nuts, not because I didn’t like the song, but because I COULDN’T STOP SINGING IT. AND IT’S NOT IN ENGLISH! So what was I singing? Nothing short of saying “bubblegum” over and over again. Or, in this case, “zaka zuka zaka zaa, niceeeeee pata pata”. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Artist: Miriam Makeba
Thank God I knew the song was called “Pata Pata”. How the hell else would I know where to put it?
Song: Pata Pata
Album: Pata Pata (1967)
FEAR says: Miriam Makeba was on this episode of The Cosby Show. One of my favorite.
iPlay: Juno (The Soundtrack)
January 29, 2010 by NaysWay · Leave a Comment
I can’t remember when I saw the movie Juno. I know it wasn’t at a movie theater, and it must have been after the Oscar buzz when this strange woman with all these tattoos came on stage to accept her Best Original Screenplay Award and I’m all who the heck is this?! I must follow those tattoos! Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Song: Vampire
While Juno was a happy accident, the soundtrack was gold to me. I like weird music and, I think it’s pretty safe to say, this is some weird stuff. I am especially, strangely drawn to the songs that sound like they’re being sung my children. Not like KidzBop. *shudder* But like little pygmies sitting around with ukuleles in a cabin somewhere in the back woods. It is awesome.
Artist: Antsy Pants
Album: Juno Soundtrack (January 2008)
FEAR says: I dare you to listen and not end up singing it the rest of the day.
iPlay: Prince (for Miss Britt)
January 22, 2010 by NaysWay · 2 Comments
The Internet is such a great place to meet people. I know, just then I sounded like a commercial for a dating service, but it’s true. Over the years, I’ve found blog communities are an even greater place for that very reason. Before I found blogs, I was leery to trust the Internet, what with their perverts and chat rooms and 40-year-olds pretending to be teenagers. I was scurred. Any moment I could have a dead bunny boiling in a pot on my stove with the crazies. With blogs, you have entry upon entry to determine whether or not you’re going down to Crazytown, or genuinely making a connection with like-minded individuals. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Two years ago, I found Miss Britt. For the life of me, I don’t remember how. But after being hooked by a post or two, and catching up on her archives to get a better picture, I immediately added her to my RSS feed. After further connections, I found that Miss Britt is an avid Prince fan. At least that’s what she’d said on her blog. And, at first, I was all, yeah. Whatever. Because no one is a Prince fan like me where “fan” means I want him to be my future baby daddy (sorry BFam). Granted, I’m (literally) eight inches taller than him. Tomatayto tomahto. That little man could catwalk up and down my thigh in his teeny tiny heels for all I’d care, and I’d be happy as a pig in slop. But then I happened on Miss Britt’s Twitter page and SHAZAM that woman is a crazy mo-fo about her some Prince because, hello?! All over her background much?! LUVS Miss Britt.
Miss Britt has been having some tough times lately. And I don’t say this because I know her on a personal level and have just betrayed her trust by telling you this. She’s been posting a few of her ups and downs on her site. It’s heartbreaking. I like Miss Britt. I don’t use the word “friend” lightly, yet I consider her an Internet buddy because that’s what happens in the blog community. You write. You make connections with readers. You befriend. It’s not necessarily superficial which could easily be the misconception since there is a lack of physical presence. I mean, she and I didn’t grow up together. Her mom doesn’t know my mom. But I like Miss Britt, and I’m feeling her pain right now.
So, Miss Britt, if you’re out there, I dedicate this to you, you Sexy Mutha (SHUT YO’ MOUTH!). Know that we’re thinking of you out here in the blogosphere. (Oh, and I gave you the 12″ version so you could rock out extra hard, extra long.)
Song: She’s Always In My Hair (12″)
Album: Around The World In A Day (1985; B-Side)
FEAR says: Who dat is? (That’s just my baby-daddy.)
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