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January 29, 2007
You'd Better Change It Back Or We Will Both Be Sorry
The National Board of Preserving 80s Music has slapped Chips Ahoy with a $500,000 fine for their cringe-inducing use of The Human League's "Don't You Want Me" in the commercial with the singing cookies. This is believed to be the largest punishment for desecrating 80s and late-70s pop music; the previous largest fines had been for the use of Blondie's "Call Me" in a car commercial, Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life" to sell cruises, and Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again" in an ad for Flomax.
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My daughter actually comes running from wherever she is whenever she hears that commercial then starts jumping about and shouting "Cookies Cookies! Look MAMA!!!" So does this fine ban the commercial too... because giving her a bath with the tv on in the other room is starting to become messy.
Posted by: cherylann | January 30, 2007 02:33 AM
Oh, you kids! Why, back in the day, we cringed the first time we heard a Stones or Who song used in a commercial (I still remember how Ford used "Get Ready" by the Temptations to launch the Taurus). Then again, if American Express hadn't used "Rescue Me" without paying royalties in some commercial, Fontana Bass might still be living on welfare.
But yes, that cookie commercial is awful, not the least because it's basically showing anthropomorphized serial killing - the same thing that makes many M&M commercials creepy.
Posted by: adamg | January 30, 2007 11:27 AM
Was it Fontella Bass?
Posted by: Vin | January 30, 2007 04:44 PM
OMG next we'll be talking about the great moments of Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra :)
Posted by: michael | January 30, 2007 04:50 PM
If a song is truly great, it will get through unscathed (like how I don't automatically think 'California Raisins' when 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' starts playing).
Unless they overplay it. But then I was never a huge fan of 'Like a Rock' by Bob Seger, anyway.
Posted by: Andy | January 31, 2007 09:44 AM
