How do ya feel about it?

First, I need you to list all the pros and cons.

pros:
money

cons:
hardee's commercials

How much?

SeLl OuTs!!!<!:!

it probably would have bothered me when i was a teenager, but at the end of the day it doesnt effect my enjoyment. i discovered an awesome nina simone song in a commercial last year, someone might discovery 'tool' at some point years from now when 'sober' is in a commercial for anti-depressant medication.

It can effect my enjoyment. I still think of viagra or some other old people medication when hearing a lot of songs. Those songs are dead to me.

NYT has an op-ed on this very thing just this morning. I'm only able to access through my campus network so I'm unable to share it, but:

Same Old Song: Private Equity Is Destroying Our Music Ecosystem
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/opin ... otify.html

There are some artistic integrity principles that feel unworthy of my time as I get older and have less of it to spare, and this is one of them. That's not to say that it can't lead to some things that rub me the wrong way, but at worst I'll roll my eyes and move on. In the end it doesn't really affect my relationship with the music.

i dont really care. I would love for the artists to protect theirs songs, but its their choice and im ok with that.

I do hate when the songs are used with awful taste.

can you give an example?

nah i dont want to think about that

just go to youtube and put COMMERCIAL

gotta sell shite sometimes

It don't bother me none. As long as I get my rent paid on Friday

i generally feel the same, that it won't effect my feelings for the music.. but for some reason LZ's Rock 'n Roll will be forever associated with that car commercial in my mind

my wedding song is in a car commercial, i've been trying to get my wife to buy it lol

i can't think of any off the top of my head, but i'm sure there are songs i hear on the radio that remind me of commercials. there's also songs i would probably prefer not to be in commercials, but at this point in music industry history it seems like its not as offensive to have songs in commercials.

There are only a few songs that are forever affiliated with commercials for me, the biggest one being Bob Seger's "Like a Rock" (not a song I really would have been inclined to like anyway).

There is a cover version of the Beatles' "Getting Better" that was used in a series of Philips flat-screen TV ads in the late '90's, though thankfully that hasn't tainted my relationship with the original.

The Sundays' version of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" was used in an ad featuring the Budweiser clydesdales in the mid-'90's; I remember it aired relentlessly during NBA on NBC during the season that Michael Jordan was playing AA baseball. I had never heard the original and assumed it was a song written exclusively for the commercial, and I thought the singer was singing "the world, world of horses."

In both of the two previous cases, I really liked the songs themselves, even as they appeared in the commercials, and I guess would consider those commercials my "introductions" to them, which is probably why I remember them so well.

Beyond those, the only reason I remember these at all is because of the ruckus fans cause about them (i.e. Bob Dylan in that Victoria's Secret commercial).

HAHAHA

I love The Sundays

private equity is generally oriented towards extractive capitalism, so the existential danger I see is more AI-assisted production. For example, one day we'll probably get a bunch of make believe Nirvana tunes that sound real.