{"id":59,"date":"2005-06-10T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T19:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2005-06-11T00:01:53","modified_gmt":"2005-06-11T08:01:53","slug":"more-on-ad-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/more-on-ad-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Ad Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s continue the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2120229\/\">online voting results<\/a> held by <strong>Slate<\/strong> for least favorite ad songs. Next is Creedance Clearwater Rivival&#8217;s Fortunate Son paired with a Wrangler jeans spot.  The problem is the spot is patriotic, and the song , while you can dance to it, is a defiant, anti-capitalism polemic. The music fights the visuals.<\/p>\n<p>Third in this contest of inappropriate music is the use of Janis Joplin&#8217;s classic <em>Mercedes Benz<\/em> to sell the German cars.  The song really is asking God to buy you some luxuries because you are totally down and out.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great song, and probably is used in this way because many of those Baby Boomers who grew in the Joplin era, Janis not Scott, can now afford the MB brand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s continue the online voting results held by Slate for least favorite ad songs. Next is Creedance Clearwater Rivival&#8217;s Fortunate Son paired with a Wrangler jeans spot. The problem is the spot is patriotic, and the song , while you can dance to it, is a defiant, anti-capitalism polemic. The music fights the visuals. Third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}