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Reged: 05/09/05
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Loc: Waltham, MA
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Re: Don't you hate it when one of your favorite songs are used for a commercial purpose?
07/07/11 07:02 AM
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> For me it leaves a bad taste in the mouth if it's a commercial for a product but > using songs for a movie soundtrack is different. It's needed. Not everybody can pay > John Williams or Danny Elfman or whoever. Just listen to all the completely awful > songs in 80's and 90's movies where they paid an "artist" to write songs for the > soundtrack. It totally fucks them up. I don't really see it as a sellout move to > license a song for a film. That's about it though. Selling anything else and it's > pretty much a sellout move. A movie is just more art. Look at it that way.
I've noticed that whoever owns the Beatles' catalog these days has been pimping it out recently. Just the songs, not the actual recordings, but it's still annoying. There's a videogame ad (Battlefield: Call of Mass Effect 47 or some shit) that uses a cover of Helter Skelter, and I saw an ad for insurance that was using a cover of, I think, Good Day Sunshine.
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