Sunday, October 03, 2004

I'm a flea-bit peanut monkey/ all my friends are junkies...

Victoria Secret's new commercials use the Rolling Stones' "Monkey Man". Which is odd, because—and I could be wrong—I'm pretty sure the song's about heroin. I wonder if advertisers listen to the songs or just decide they like the beat. I'm sure you could devote a whole term paper to misused songs in advertising, like Wrangler using "Fortunate Son" or Target using a Devo song about, if you really listened to it, the evils of commercialism. Or you could write term paper about something that actually matters. Take it from me, you start writing papers about the metaphor of water in R.E.M. songs or women in Springsteen songs, and you end up with a temp job and an unread blog. (They should make this into one of those NBC "The More You Know" PSAs they show on Monday mornings. Take it, NBC, you can use it.)

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