“Teardrop,” by Massive Attack, is featured on both the TV Show “House” and the video game “Assassin’s Creed.”
This is like being generation-gapped in reverse. This has been one of my favorite songs for years, and now it’s doubly commoditized. I don’t know why this bothers me. Other songs I like have been used in commercials, but this is one of those songs I dearly, dearly love. It makes me a little sad, for some reason.
Love to all. Even you, Fox.
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Tell us why it makes you sad. Isn’t getting a song out into the public’s ear a good thing? I’d never heard the song before, and likely wouldn’t have otherwise…
That’s how I felt when they used Squeeze’s Tempted to sell beer, those bastards. I saw them in concert, fer crissakes.
I know how you feel, I feel the same when I hear music I like, which is rarely mainstream, used in mainstream media. It’s like it devalues the music for me somehow, which is plainly not true for the artist, in monetary terms at least. I should just stop being a music snob, yes?
Sadly, I had no idea that the “House Song” (as it’s known around here) was a “real” song.
I am seriously out of touch with this stuff.
I can’t imagine my favorite music being used in commercials.
I’d probably be a little concerned for the mental health of the ad exec that pitched it.
Ms. Chili: I dunno… it’s like having a song that did gave me that whole teenage-level heart-flippy-floppy thing, and hearing it in a video game just sort of takes the mystical edge off…
Cheesy, but true.
Lilli Pilli: Did you just call me snob?
Renn: I need to borrow your iPod.
Tracy Lynn: Ayup. I’m with ya.
As much as I love (and my feel proprietary regarding) Massive Attack, anything that raises the profile of Liz Fraser is okay by me…
That being said, the current Nissan Rogue spot that features The Clash doing “Pressure Drop”- that one makes me feel uneasy.