Has anybody noticed that Toyota is using "What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?" as the music in a commercial these days?
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Re: folksong in Toyota commercial
Tue, August 30, 2005 - 6:43 AMSomeone pointed that out in one of the Faire folk tribes. (Well, at *least* one of them. I haven't checked them all... ) I saw the commercial right after I read the thread. :P -
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Re: folksong in Toyota commercial
Tue, August 30, 2005 - 10:52 AMAh. I'm not a Faire follower. I tend more toward 18th- and 19th-century music...
No wonder it took so long for me to get a response. Talking about it is old hat for some of you. -
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Re: folksong in Toyota commercial
Tue, August 30, 2005 - 3:17 PMOh I noticed it and had to laugh. Interesting arrangement to say the least. I only heard the one on the radio.
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Re: folksong in Toyota commercial
Tue, August 30, 2005 - 7:47 PMYeah. In typical pop form they had to end it with a major chord, because of course minor chords are always sad, and you don't want to risk making anybody sad if you're trying to sell something. Never mind the fact that for millenia minor modes have been perfectly acceptable, if not prominent, in many cultures' repertoires...
Hell, never mind that you're using a song about drunkenness to sell a car...
"Give him the keys to a new Toyota,
Give him the keys to a new Toyota,
Give him the keys to a new Toyota
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Re: folksong in Toyota commercial
Tue, August 30, 2005 - 10:20 PM"Hell, never mind that you're using a song about drunkenness to sell a car"
Mitsubishi paved the way last year by using Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick" for their commercials. What do you think that says about their perception of their market base... :)
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Re: folksong in Toyota commercial
Wed, August 31, 2005 - 9:42 AMI was thinking more on the lines of:
"What do you do with a drunken driver?
What do you do with a drunken driver?
What do you do with a drunken driver
early in the morning?" ;P -
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Re: folksong in Toyota commercial
Wed, August 31, 2005 - 10:08 PMGive him the keys to a new Toyota,
Give him the keys to a new Toyota...
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