Row over Beatles song used in nappy advert

http://www.eveningecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=278933616&p=z78934488&n=278934494 ^ | July 20, 2007

[Dinsdale]

Q: What will it take to reunite the Beatles?

A: Two more bullets (not as funny as the three more bullets version was).

God that band sucked. The Duran Duran of the 60s.

[jwh_Denver]

I wish the Beatles et al would quit fighting the trend to use their music to sell stuff. All these imitations are sickening especially the “Hello, Goodbye”. Make the money and give us our daily fix of the greatest music group the world’s ever seen. So let’s hear THEM.

[Red_Devil 232]

I believe that this whole trend of using old rock and roll songs from a generation or more ago to sell products to today’s consumers is a sign of

No Talent Today!

[FreeManWhoCan]

I don’t know what comercial it is right now, but I can’t stand the one that keeps playing “I’m Free, to do what I want! Any old time.”

[WarEagle]

Personally, I think the Beatles' addle-brained "love and peace" music BELONGS in a "soiled nappy", as the Brits so delicately put it.

Can't think of a better place.

[Red_Devil 232]

Yeah! That is the advert for a credit card ... free to change from either “cash back” or “points”! Sounds like Mick Jagger singing ... but I don’t think it is!

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High-minded hippie nonsense. R’n’R is a bastardization of what ‘real’ music is anyway so using it in a commercial is just redundant.

[Revolting cat!]

Now, some musical treat by Elvis would've been more appropriate and persuasive since the King himself was known to wear nappies! Say, for example, Change of Habit.

[Revolting cat!]

Dude, they’re trying to appeal to the Boomers who are themselves starting to wear nappies. Again.

[Hazwaste]

“You’ve got the Beatles, which draws like, religious feelings, and you’ve got the war [Vietnam].”

Then you have aging hippies that take the music of their childhood WAY too seriously.

[reaganbooster]

I don’t think this is a matter of marketers being lazy, rather they are going the path of least resistance.

Remember, they want to try anything legal at the least possible cost for you to buy their product. If the oldies songs of the 60’s make people of that era nostalic about their product and end up buying it, why not use it? In other words, they are not trying to reinvent the wheel.

[ConservativeStatement]

Ugh! That commercial was just played during the horse race on ESPN. Wow, that is one horrible cover.