Q: What's the Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial theme song?

Moi | 8 Feb 02 | Hank Rearden

[Hank Rearden]

I bit my tongue on this one and held off until Frivolous Friday.

After trying other avenues, I find the need to resort to fellow FReepers for the answer to my current trivia obsession: What's the theme song for last year's Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial?

You've seen it: sort of edgy rock, sort of reggae - the white car is shown in quick cuts of three scenes: the three girls pulled up at the gas pump, the slender girl at the same (?) gas station patting her leg to the beat, and the sexy brunette writhing to the beat in the passenger seat next to her geekazoid date, as they pass a shiny-chrome gasoline tanker truck in a tunnel.

Song phrases like "get up, get up", "start the commotion" etc. with heavy bass beat.

Enough clues? Help! Is it a published, available song or just written for this commercial?

[nimc]

"The item in your picture is an equine dental file."

Holy Moly…I think we have a winner! The family of the person I got it from have been cattle ranchers in this area for 150 years!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I retract my earlier answer to your query. I hadn't looked at your gallery and was under the false impression that the head was round, not square.
A good bluff though, huh?

[DETAILER]

Possibly a tool to make a decorative pattern on cement or grout?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Are you sure?"

Not anymore. I'd go with the dental tool for horses answer. Seems logical.

[L.N. Smithee]

Thanks for the pic. I like when she thrashes her head back and forth for too-brief seconds. She kicks butt all over the anorexic blonde in the same spot.

Oh, to be told "Wind it up, baby!" by a woman that looks like that!

As long as we're going on about women in commercials (at least until the thread is pulled)...have you noticed that spot with for the prescription medication for genital warts ("I am part of a disturbing trend...")? Those people -- especially the Asian chick -- are GORGEOUS!

[nimc]

Freepers are awesome! It took 29 minutes to identify an antique horse dental file! Impressive!

Thank-you.

[TheMole]

Jeez Hank, you gotta taste for intellectual stuff :-) Start The Commotion

The Wiseguys

Fire it up baby

Get up, get up

Get up, get up

Get up, get up

Get up, get up, get up, get up

Get up, get up, get up, get up

Get up, get up, get up, get up

If you're curious, and you got the notion

Let's do it, just start the commotion

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, get up, get up

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Let's do it, just start the commotion

Hey

Ba ba ba, ba ba ba, ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba, ba ba ba, ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba, ba ba ba, ba ba ba, ba ba ba

Ba ba ba, ba ba, ba ba, ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba ba

Let's do it, just start the commotion

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, get up, get up

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Let's do it, just start the commotion

Ba ba ba, (hey), ba ba ba, ba ba ba

Ba ba ba ba ba ba

Ba ba ba, ba ba ba, ba ba ba, ba ba ba

Ba ba ba, ba ba, ba ba, ba ba, ba ba ba ba ba ba

Get up, get up

Get up, get up

Get up, get up

Get up, get up

Fire it up baby

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, put your body in motion

Get up, get up, get up, get up

Get up, get up, put your

Get up, get up, put your

Get up, get up, put your

Get up, get up, put your

Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up

Hey

Start the commotion, start the commotion, start the commotion

Start the commotion, start the commotion, start the commotion

Start the commotion, start the commotion, start the commotion

Start the commotion, start the commotion, start the commotion

Start the commotion, start the commotion, start the commotion

Fire it up baby

Start the commotion, start the commotion, hey

Start the commotion, start the commotion, hey

Start the commotion, start the commotion, hey

Start the commotion, start the commotion

G-roovy

Hey

[tacticalogic]

I hadn't looked at your gallery and was under the false impression that the head was round, not square.

I almost made that mistake. Before I figured out it wasn't round, I was ready to guess it was a bunghole reamer (no, not THAT kind of bunghole - the ones in wooden barrels).

[xsrdx]

As my wife pointed out, "That girl is HOT", the first time we saw it. Since chicks automatically HATE each other, Eclipse girl is clearly exceptional. Something to do with the way she wiggles I think, seductively enticing.

Of course, my immediate response was "Yeah, sort of I guess..can I get you anything, my lovely?"

[prairie dog]

Not to redirect the discussion back to Mitsubishi and their ads but, as a resident of the Illinois city where their US plant is located and a neighbor of one of the higher ups, ever since they started running the Eclipse commercials some 18 months ago, they just can't build the cars fast enough to keep up with demand.

Sales of the four door sedan Mitsu (can't recall the model name) have likewise skyrocketed since they started running the ad backed by the Barenakedladies "Chinese chicken" song. Might have sold even more if it weren't for that dork in the passenger seat with the goatee and vomit green shirt doing his Gen Y/gay head tilt thing.

[PrivateIdaho]

I believe that's Twentieth Century Boy written by Marc Bolan.

Thanks...that's it!!! Gonna have to get that T.Rex album/CD

[martin_fierro]

Oh, to be told "Wind it up, baby!" by a woman that looks like that!

Here she is, in mid-"baby". <|:)~

[Hank Rearden]

All very interesting and useful. Now let's all talk about that hot brunette some more, huhhuh?

[FreedomPoster]

Mis-alignment does not allow the teeth to wear down on their own... So the equine dentist gives them a little help with the file.

Doesn't sound like much fun to me, at either end of the tool. Were I the equine dentist, I'd sure want a well-sedated patient.

[FreedomPoster]

It's too bad about the demise of adcritic.com, or we could've all gone there to download this spot to ogle this babe-ette. Oh, well, another dot-com with no hope of a workable business model, gone buh-bye!

[american spirit]

Mole, me thinks you have just a little bit too much time on your hands...good post.

[american spirit]

Dammit, I knew there just HAD to be a manual like that floating around......they're not smart enough to figure out how to make us nuts all by themselves, are they? ARE THEY?

[gridlock]

Of course, my immediate response was "Yeah, sort of I guess..can I get you anything, my lovely?"

LOL! I have to go get my lovely something from the kitchen every time that music comes on! I've seen the commercial through to the end a few times (and a couple times more on tape). Yeah, that babe is indescribably hot. Not quite sure what it is. Must be the wiggle.

[Hank Rearden]

Yeah, that babe is indescribably hot. Not quite sure what it is. Must be the wiggle.

I think it's always the wiggle.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

To find the video of "The Wise Guys", "Start the Commotion" Click here and scroll down to Mitsubishi (*) Click on "Video here" on the right.