Inappropriate songs for TV advertisements.

[Roy Hunter]

OK, here's the deal: you are an advertising executive, you are approached by a manufacturer, what is the most inappropriate song you can provide for their TV advert?

Here is mine:

Canasten Cream - "This Sex Is On Fire", by the Kings of Leon.

[daftbeaker]

Apparently Microsoft used Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones to advertise Windows.

The line 'You make a grown man cry' is rather accurate

[Rainswept]

How about an ad for Disney, in which you rename a certain Prince song as: "Darling Minnie"

[Ubi Dubius]

Any Congressional Incumbent's campaign: Fool on the Hill.

[PKMKII]

Okay, so a major retailer wants a song set to images of hetero couples, and it's supposed to inspire holiday shopping. I know, I'll set it to a song about a gay AIDS victim's funeral.

Oh wait, that actually happened.

[Rainswept]

Seems like a win for Macy's. The gays appreciate the history of the song, The kind of conservatives who hate gays probably never watch Rent.

I'd like to know what product (aside from the CD) you're going to sell with Tori Amos's cover of '97 Bonnie and Clyde

[Uther]

Preparation-H

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire!

And It Burns, Burns, Burns
The Ring Of Fire
The Ring Of Fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lhf9U5Wf3Q

[Rainswept]

There's a whole list of ones you can't use to advertise those scooters for people who don't walk...

Safety Dance: "If they don't dance then they're no friends of mine"

I'm Gonna Be: "I would walk 500 Miles"

Jump: "Go ahead and Jump"

The Real Slim Shady: "Please stand up, please stand up"

I could go on...

[bacon]

All I know is that the most inappropriate song that I can think of for the first dance at a wedding is Nine Inch Nails' Closer.

[Rainswept]

no no no, that's not even the worst nin song from that album

Try Reptile

[Qwertyuiopasd]

Or as far as unfortunate wedding songs go, just try Pearl Jam's "Better Man"

or Billy Idol's "White Wedding" which I can see how someone might think would be a good idea to play, simply based on the title and having not heard the lyrics too closely. XD

[DavidH]

Bustin' Out would be a good backing for an ad for condoms.

[black bart]

Communication Breakdown by Led Zep for B T Broadband.

[Tigger_the_Wing]

How not to keep your customers happy. In the supermarket the other day, they were playing "I will survive".

"Go on now, go!
Walk out that door!
Just turn around now‚
'cause you're not welcome any more…"

[PKMKII]

After the whole debacle with how NBC handled Conan and the Tonight Show, the promos for Jay Leno's return used, inappropriately, The Beatles' Get Back.

Here's a remake using a much more appropriate song.