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I went to see The Secret Life of Pets in the theater with my mom when it came out. It was a cute movie and a nice bonding experience but I got a bit uncomfortable when this scene played https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Blw-aWpWbpM For those unfamiliar with this song by System of a Down, the lyrics are pretty blatantly about an orgy. It was pretty bizarre to hear that song start playing during a kid's movie. Obviously I didn't say anything and just kind of laughed to myself at how inappropriate it was. You can even look up the lyrics online as part of the Secret Life of Pets soundtrack: https://lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/s/secretlifeofpetslyrics/bouncelyrics.html So, what examples have you seen of music used in movies, or really any circumstances with background or featured music, that are (or seem to be) blissfully unaware of the meaning of the song?
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Here is an ad for Jeep from a few years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jff5bVYEmI The song is Johnny Cash's "God's Gonna Cut You Down." I always thought "You're gonna die, sinner! Buy a Jeep" was a weird marketing message, especially for a vehicle - making sure you don't get killed is usually a major selling point.
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Jun 16, 2018 21:51
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Mercedes-Benz using Janis Joplin's song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAx9G1I9Waw A loving coal company using 16 Tons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6ueDHn2HTk The Sing trailer using Sing For The Moment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrWjjOOYxhI (Notice how they had to edit the lines "They say music can alter moods and talk to you, well, can it load a gun up for you and cock it too?")
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Jun 16, 2018 22:41
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GMC using Eminence Front to sell luxury SUVs.
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Jun 16, 2018 22:53
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Assassin's Creed Unity using a Lorde cover of Everyone Wants to Rule The World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzCEdSKMkdU I dunno I thought it was weird when the assassins aren't really about that
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Jun 16, 2018 23:04
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There's an ad for old folks medicine that currently airs that uses a cover of Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3DaJOHnw18 Royal Caribbean used Iggy Pop's Lust for Life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7dCrtdRtZQ
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Jun 17, 2018 02:17
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An elementary school band playing suicide is painless https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykEeGRC5U_o
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Jun 17, 2018 03:08
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Alhazred posted:Mercedes-Benz using Janis Joplin's song: Ugh gently caress I had forgotten about this 
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Jun 17, 2018 04:45
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https://youtu.be/KFXwyi85gMA An apple ad featuring a song about big black cock.
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Jun 17, 2018 05:03
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Prob Reagan using Born In The USA
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You know, I often wonder why I still scroll down to look at youtube comments since they are usually infuriating but then I see stuff like this Thank you THUNDERBALLZ73 
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Mmh whatcha say Mmh that you only meant well? Well of course you did Mmh whatcha say
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Alhazred posted:Mercedes-Benz using Janis Joplin's song: not sure wants wrong with this. the song glorifies consumerism and keeping up with the Joneses, so it seems perfect for Mercedes
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Jun 17, 2018 12:10
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Poniard posted:An elementary school band playing suicide is painless Manic Street Preachers covering Suicide is Painless as a charity single for the Spastics Society, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y11f8Oc25AI Ein cooler Typ posted:not sure wants wrong with this. the song glorifies consumerism and keeping up with the Joneses, so it seems perfect for Mercedes Funny.
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Jun 17, 2018 18:24
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"I hope you had the time of your life" was used in a few season finales. ER even played it over a 12 year old's funeral.
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Jun 17, 2018 18:36
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The Banana Splits theme song being used in Kick rear end.
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Jun 17, 2018 20:02
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bba-dK_nS-M This song about doing a ton of meth and having wild sex and overdosing is the perfect match for a children's cartoon.
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Jun 17, 2018 22:18
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jZzuNdnQMI
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Jun 17, 2018 22:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWSJEvpi5tY Nothing says pure driving satisfaction like a song about Roman Polanski. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEZRv3tQAgU Or a song about heroin, called "Heroin" Ellie Crabcakes has a new favorite as of 22:49 on Jun 17, 2018 |
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Jun 17, 2018 22:43
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjSu5g600A0 A song about sex being sung by children.
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Jun 17, 2018 23:41
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Not quite on the level of other stuff in this thread, but one of the local rock stations played "Rooster", "Born in the USA", and "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World" in sequence last 4th of July, which is either incredibly tone deaf or pretty ballsy.
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Jun 18, 2018 02:28
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The Wrangler ad that used an edited version of "Fortunate Son" which they only dropped when they found out Fogerty hated it, the actual meaning of the song was apparently too subtle I guess.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0jC38feoB4 Not as inappropriate as some of the others, but still weird.
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The Missing Link posted:https://youtu.be/KFXwyi85gMA My favorite thing is the song isn't even using clever lyrics to hide it, it's just straight out there.
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Semi-Protato posted:Here is an ad for Jeep from a few years ago. Holy poo poo, are US ads usually so incredibly overwrought?  Anyways, another one would be this one scene from the most recent Robocop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-SLhDmaTqI It's not even bad, just weird. You have this fairly intense shootout fight scene with some pretty dark exposition mixed in, and suddenly there's loving yodeling. Perestroika has a new favorite as of 19:15 on Jun 30, 2018 |
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when the pope came to the Washington DC area the rock station was playing songs where they mention god or whatever, like what if god was one of us, but each song became more and more inappropriate like possum kingdom and man in the box, finally culminating with closer by NiN. i like that song and all but seriously wtf
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Jun 30, 2018 20:31
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im pooping! posted:when the pope came to the Washington DC area the rock station was playing songs where they mention god or whatever, like what if god was one of us, but each song became more and more inappropriate like possum kingdom and man in the box, finally culminating with closer by NiN. i like that song and all but seriously wtf This actually owns
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Jul 1, 2018 03:33
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Poniard posted:An elementary school band playing suicide is painless This is probably the most WTF thing I've ever heard. Maybe not as egregious as some others in this thread, but one that bugs me right now is an Applebees ad using "Come to My Window" to promote their curbside pickup.
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Perestroika posted:Holy poo poo, are US ads usually so incredibly overwrought? TIL another movie used Hocus Pocus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y59oGt2XWU
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Jul 7, 2018 00:36
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The entire soundtrack to Suicide Squad was awful. Every song was overused, outdated, chopped to pieces, and way too carefully choreographed to the movies visuals. It was so goddamn distracting I almost didn't notice how terrible the movie was as well.
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Comptroll The Forums posted:The entire soundtrack to Suicide Squad was awful. Every song was overused, outdated, chopped to pieces, and way too carefully choreographed to the movies visuals. It was so goddamn distracting I almost didn't notice how terrible the movie was as well. So what you're saying is their plan nearly worked?
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Fister Roboto posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0jC38feoB4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNpLhv21BS0
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Jul 9, 2018 03:40
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An AT&T commercial during a recent olympics using Lou Reed's "Perfect Day". Amazing song, and a love song to heroin.
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Always thought it was weird that modest mouse were on The OC since it seemed to represent everything Isaac Brock hated about society
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Aesop Poprock posted:Always thought it was weird that modest mouse were on The OC since it seemed to represent everything Isaac Brock hated about society I read an interview with him where he talked about how much he hated hippies. Not for the standard "darn kids and their music, get a haircut!" but because when he was a kid there was a music festival in a park near his home that attracted tons of hippies to it. He loved that park, but after the festival, the hippies had absolutly destroyed it, leaving garbage everywhere, destroying the grass and other plants, and just over all wrecking it. That reminds me how there was a short lived TV series called Time of your Life that was a spin off of Party of Five I think, about one of the characters going off to search for her real dad, and it used that Green Day song as its opening, also based the whole series on that song it seemed. Thing is that song is really melancholy and clearly about a really bad break up and the heartache it caused, not literally hoping for the time of your life.
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Yeah seriously though I can’t imagine the person who wrote this agreeing to be on a show about rich kid slackers in SoCal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT0qBdHLspQ
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twistedmentat posted:I read an interview with him where he talked about how much he hated hippies. Not for the standard "darn kids and their music, get a haircut!" but because when he was a kid there was a music festival in a park near his home that attracted tons of hippies to it. He loved that park, but after the festival, the hippies had absolutly destroyed it, leaving garbage everywhere, destroying the grass and other plants, and just over all wrecking it. That Green Day song was used for my and seemingly everyone else's high school graduation too.
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Schneider Inside Her posted:Prob Reagan using Born In The USA
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Jul 9, 2018 15:44
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RBA Starblade posted:That Green Day song was used for my and seemingly everyone else's high school graduation too. There must be a name for the condition for people who can only hear lyrics that are in the chorus, not the body of the song.
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This past Canada Day, I was doing balloons for an event, and there was a live band. Now, bear in mind that this is a kid's oriented party.. so I think covering Pumped Up Kicks is a pretty drat inappropriate song. This happens more often than I'd like to admit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ
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