Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Not Worthy!

Every time I hear Gary Numan's song "Cars" in a commercial for Walmart or Jackie Wilson's song "To Be Loved" used in a milk commercial, I think that these songs are too good to be used in advertisements. Walmart isn't worthy of Gary Numan and Jackie Wilson's great voice shouldn't be used to hock milk. Some would argue that using these songs in commercials exposes them to an entirely new audience of people and that's probably true. But I still hate to see great songs used to sell stuff on television. All I can hope is that Gary Numan owns the rights to "Cars" and is making some money from the Walmart deal and that Jackie Wilson's estate also get some cash from the milk lobby (provided he owned the rights to "To Be Loved" and, sadly, he probably didn't).

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