Current song you are listening to(or the Last song you listened to)

[Gray]

First, I want to make certain important details perfectly clear.
One, I'm not a fan of this genre.
Two, I'm not a fan of this artist. Most of her other songs I dislike.
Three, I generally hate all music in all TV adverts ever.
Four, I never ever hear a song in a TV advert and think "oh, this is wonderful, I need to hear more of this".

However,

There's something in this song that immediately spoke to me. Probably the somewhat odd chord sequence, or the slightly off-kilter melody, or the vaguely relatable lyrics, so for once, I actually had to Google "what song is used in the TV ad for..."

But it's a really good song.



I can't actually remember what the TV ad is for. I tune out when I hear the song and stop paying attention. In that sense, it's a terrible choice for the advertiser. But it makes me slightly happier.

[demagogue]

I remember the first time hearing Zee Avi's Honey Bee in a commercial and thinking (IIRC) that this song is so special, even being in a commercial can't diminish it. It's on a level all its own, like all classic & magical songs are. Edit: There's a chance that I'm completely imagining that I heard it in a commercial though.



The other ones that come to mind are a Pomplamoose tune, that "apple of my eye" tune, a few others that were in commercials but far above that level... I'll have to look them up.

[Tocky]

This commercial was the first and only time I heard a song for the first time I liked on one but it gives me a Mandela effect. In the commercial I recall she was leaning back in the seat moving very minimally as street lights swept across the windshield. It was a much cooler less trying hard and looking goofy commercial.

[henke]

First, I want to make certain important details perfectly clear.
One, I'm not a fan of this genre.

Awwww come on Gray, you're a pop fan. Quit posing!

Yeah, Sophie Ellis-Bextor has some bangers.

ANYWAY

Spotify wrapped says I'm in the 3% listeners this year (had to go right to bandcamp and atone for my sins) and that Swedish rock band Viagra Boys are my artist of the year. Y'all heard these guys?



Wonderful.

Heeeeeell yeah, Piglick!

[Jason Moyer]

This commercial was the first and only time I heard a song for the first time I liked on one but it gives me a Mandela effect. In the commercial I recall she was leaning back in the seat moving very minimally as street lights swept across the windshield. It was a much cooler less trying hard and looking goofy commercial.

I remember that ad being super goofy, but that's mostly because of the Chappelle sketch:



When I think of ads with good music for some reason the first things that come to mind are Volkswagen using Psychic TV and Nick Drake in their 90's commercials.





Oh yeah, and Trio. How could I forget this one.

[Sulphur]

Spotify wrapped says I'm in the 3% listeners this year (had to go right to bandcamp and atone for my sins) and that Swedish rock band Viagra Boys are my artist of the year. Y'all heard these guys?



Wonderful.

I spent the last two days wondering what the everloving fuck this song reminded me of, because it had the cadence, delivery, and locomotion of another song that had worn a groove into my brain when I was a kid, but everything else about it remained elusive. Until this second. And do you know what that song is? WELL, DO YOU!!??



Yeah.

[henke]

oooooooh it's LIKE THAT is it? I'm familiar with that song, but I never connected it to the Viagra Boys track. But yeah, now that you point it out I hear the similarity.

[taffernicus]

[taffernicus]

Every day, I wake up and it's Sunday
Whatever's in my eye won't go away
The radio is playing all the usual
And what's a wonderwall anyway?

Almost same chord progression at the beginning

I think this instrument really fits for adventure themed game

[Gray]

Awwww come on Gray, you're a pop fan. Quit posing!

Yes, that's true, in a sense. Pretty much all the music I listen to is pop, in some way or another. I even bought a single by Kylie Minogue once, on purpose. But my point was that I'm not a huge fan of this particular subgenre of pop, nor the artist in general. And yet, the power of the song itself forced me to admit I like it, despite my own arrogance and elitism and stupid nonsense I've trapped myself in. Granted, I've expanded my definition of "pop" from KMFDM to Rammstein to Metallica to Aphex Twin to Front Line Assembly to Stevie Wonder to BB King to Ella Fitzgerald. It's all pop, in the sense that it's music, that is popular. In that sense, my favourite band Depeche Mode is an exceptionally successful pop band. More so than many godawful boybands I so utterly despise. Even I have limits.

My point was I'm going against my nature, to admit to liking a pop song. Your point is that all I like is pop. In this case, I think you win. I concede.

[Edit]

This would be the one Kylie Minogue single I bought with actual money. From her "alternative" phase. I really like it.



I also once bought one album by Madonna. The good one. You know which one. The one that didn't suck.

[Edit again]

I should probably elaborate on that. When I grew up, the charts were completely dominated by a small handful of artists, such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, Wham, and in the UK a constantly revolving roster of interchangeable Stock-Aitken-Waterman produced artist such as Kylie and Rick Astley, and some other godawful piece of crap. From my perspective, they were "the enemy". The omnipresent horribleness you could never escape, your only refuge would be whatever alternative stuff you would find on MTV 120 Minutes or in my brother's LP collection. I grew up on heavy metal, Kraftwerk and all sorts of alternative bands. But even then, every once in a while, one of "the enemy" would release a song that was surprisingly not awful, or actually quite good. If I think back I could probably name one song at least by each one of those artists I liked. Except for Michael Jackson, I always despised him. Still do. Your mileage may vary.





"I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." - the pope

[Starker]

I guess all this talk about pop muzik is to blame for this:

[Neb]

Stompy teenager music

[haiduk]

One man blackened death metal live

[Sulphur]

As some people already know, for Canadian hilbillies, Mother Mother makes some pretty good music. What I didn't already know, though, was that they're also great live.

[demagogue]

New Vulf drop.

Vulfmon & Tyler Ballgame - Gloves Off

[DuatDweller]

Ah Da Da Da, by Trio, I remember that Dad, Mom and me used to like the song a lot back then.

Oh anyway flash forward to 1996, the last year I was employed under a company, and no usually I don't listen to anything in Spanish.
So this exception is Santa Sabina, El Angel, regrettably the singer Rita Guerrero, died of cancer a few years ago.
Breast cancer got to her, and she died Friday 11 March 2011.

[Arch Fenster]

And all that other stuff...

[heywood]

I like that one, but my favorite is Bob & Doug:

[Tocky]

Merry Christmas fuckers.

[Vae]

So sweet and sublime...

[Neb]

[Starker]

[Tocky]

New Years time to...