Most bizarre music/commerical pairings? - Beyond Tiki

A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Wed, Feb 23, 2005 6:33 PM Just one opinion, but to me, paying lipservice to "art for art's sake" is more phony than openly doing commercial art. But obviously there's a distinction between commercial art, and doing art that later gets used in a commercial. Anyway, I'm probably skewed on the whole thing since I've always been maybe a little more attracted to commercial and even advertising art than to the lofty highbrow "true art" stuff. But it's interesting to hear people's thoughts on this. Maybe your passion dictates what you tune out - one person may tune out the product and enjoy the song, while another may feel the pleasure of the song tuned out (involuntarily even) by the irritation with the product / message. I liked that Sonics ad too. Zero recall about what car it was for, but it did pop them up again on the old mental "listening queue" next time I was grabbing stuff for the record player. -Randy

Just one opinion, but to me, paying lipservice to "art for art's sake" is more phony than openly doing commercial art. But obviously there's a distinction between commercial art, and doing art that later gets used in a commercial. Anyway, I'm probably skewed on the whole thing since I've always been maybe a little more attracted to commercial and even advertising art than to the lofty highbrow "true art" stuff.

But it's interesting to hear people's thoughts on this. Maybe your passion dictates what you tune out - one person may tune out the product and enjoy the song, while another may feel the pleasure of the song tuned out (involuntarily even) by the irritation with the product / message.

I liked that Sonics ad too. Zero recall about what car it was for, but it did pop them up again on the old mental "listening queue" next time I was grabbing stuff for the record player.

-Randy

Post #142890 by aquarj on Wed, Feb 23, 2005 6:33 PM