Because I completely lack my own ideas I'm holding a blog contest (a la The Yumanity). Luckily for you it involves dog food!
I hold firmly to the belief that "selling out" is an artists right. Just because you, as a person who enjoys the artists work, have attached certain emotions to a song you love doesn't mean the artist is betraying you by selling the rights to said song to an advertiser. The artist poured their time, blood, sweat, tears, and likely some insoucient mandolin into that track you love and it is theirs to do with as they please. Jack White can write songs for Coca Cola, Ben Gibbard can sell you sneakers, and lord knows you can't sell ipod nanos or score a decent movie trailer without some indie streeet cred track.
I predict that within five years there will be a direct pipeline connecting Myspace and Madison Avenue.
Having said that I've got to ask, "A dog food commercial, WTF?" Here's where the contest comes in. Go to this link, and watch the video for Cesar's awesome new dog food. I must presume it's awesome based on the hairy rat's (I mean dog's) reaction to it. It appears the dog food breakthrough is that the food is already partially predigested. Owning a dog I know this is preferrable because the dog never actually chews it's food.
Anyway, the contest is to be the first person to list the artist, song, and (listen closely) ALBUM in the comments. The winner will receive a partially chewed DVD case for the movie Brick. Courtesy of my dog Thena.
Good luck but I'll leave you with a hint. The song contains the lyrics: I always say I love you when I mean turn out the light, and I say let's run away when I just mean stay the night. Actually, they should have included the lyrics as they seem strangely appropriate.
Why didn't they use Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be?
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I'll take the last part of the question first. And I'd like to thank Geritol for its sponsorship.
The album is Volume 1 of the trilogy that is 69 Love Songs. The artist is The Magnetic Fields. The song is I Think I Need A New Heart. I haven't previously heard the song, nor the album, so I think I'm far far from being a deserving winner. The thanks goes to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_Love_Songs
Kat says that if one were going to sell out, she could think of few better ways to do so than in a commercial that shows happy dogs jumping for joy to receive food. Her dogs, Lily and Lucy, seemed to enjoy the song as well.
You are correct. I wish I'd have known that piece of trivia was listed in Wikipedia. Either I don't watch enough television or I don't read enough Wikipedia.
Your autographed copy of "The Areas of My Expertise" by John Hodgman, signed "Do I make you a little horny? Cool. --Wrayblog" is on it's way.
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