# Enough with the fucking "Hey, Soul Sister" goddamn fucking shit already! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945 "2010-10-13T01:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/1 "2010-10-13T01:35:17Z")
Holy Teri, mother of Todd, is there anyone in the advertising community whose motherfucking job it is to actually watch all the other fucking ads being put out there and say, “Hey, you know, 9,472 other people are using Train’s ‘Hey, Soul Sister’ in their ads, maybe we should pick something, you know, _different_.” I’m so fucking sick of this goddamn song. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/2 "2010-10-13T01:50:26Z")
As I mentioned in [Cafe Society](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13007726&postcount=63), I had managed to get through life without hearing this song until this past Saturday. Boy, what a piece of dreck. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/3 "2010-10-13T01:52:27Z")
The advertising and entertainment industries are like a big game of [Mad Libs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs): producers take what was previously successful and popular, change names, places and dates, and release the “new” product. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/4 "2010-10-13T02:08:04Z")
Proposal for a new Chevrolet commercial, from \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, Senior Advertising Executive, Chevrolet Corp.: A (cute/hot) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is walking on a sidewalk in crowded downtown \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ while Train’s “Sweet Soul Sister” plays non-diegetically. A (cute/hot) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ drives up next to (him/her) in the new Chevy Cappuccino and winks, getting (his/her) attention. They drive away, girl flinging her \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ out of the window in a carefree manner. Deep focus sees the car disappear into the horizon. Cut to black-screen with logo. * * * Proposal for a new Ford commercial, from \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, Senior Advertising Executive, Ford Corp.: A (cute/hot) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ is walking on a sidewalk in crowded downtown \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ while Train’s “Sweet Soul Sister” plays non-diegetically. A (cute/hot) \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ drives up next to (him/her) in the new Ford Fracas and winks, getting (his/her) attention. They drive away, girl flinging her \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ out of the window in a carefree manner. Deep focus sees the car disappear into the horizon. Cut to blackscreen with logo. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/5 "2010-10-13T02:23:12Z")
No, Shit… it was a moderately enjoyable upbeat folksy Pop song. But they had a strike against them usurping and replacing the only [Sweet Soul Sister](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNobN73F2JY) that matters in Pop Music Culture and my mind. Then I saw Train on Fox News being interviewed and the illusion was shattered. They’re fucking soulless bloodsuckers that sold out. Now you hear them in the most banal situations… but hey, if they want 5heir music to mean cars, and coffeeshops, and TV commercials, and that sap, who am I to say? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/6 "2010-10-13T02:27:06Z")
A rule of thumb that has served me well over the years. If the word 'soul" is in the title or the description, it’s probably not going to be worth listening to. This song was no exception. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/7 "2010-10-13T02:52:40Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > A rule of thumb that has served me well over the years. If the word 'soul" is in the title or the description, it’s probably not going to be worth listening to. This song was no exception. Hey, fuck you. I take that as a not so cleverly veiled devaluation and frettering of the brocade of The Cult’s Original Soulsister. That song simply Rockz, Astbury’s got more soul in his left Ball, than that Mick Monahan has in his right. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/8 "2010-10-13T04:10:33Z")
I have been meaning to come in and start this very rant. I don’t have words for how much I hate this fucking song and everyone remotely involved with it, as well as everything that it has been used in a commercial for, which at this point includes everything available for purchase in the populated universe. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/9 "2010-10-13T04:11:35Z")
_Hey sister, go sister, soul sister, so sister_ ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/10 "2010-10-13T04:12:10Z")
I like that song. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/11 "2010-10-13T04:44:54Z")
I hated _Soul Sister_ with a violent passion ever since the very first time I heard it. “My untrimmed chest?” And the guitar riff and rhythm, painfully and obviously aping Jason Mraz and Jack Johnson. Now that I hear it in nine billion commercials, I despise it even more. _If It’s Love,_ on the other hand - it also has horrible lyrics and an uninteresting melody, but I give Train major props for throwing in a reference to [Sir Henry Lee.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Henry_Lee) I highly doubt many listeners caught it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/12 "2010-10-13T05:35:34Z")
I think the popularity of this song just goes to show that the ukelele is grossly underused in today’s popular music. Obviously, we are starved for ukelele music and will just take what we can get. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/13 "2010-10-13T05:42:22Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > A rule of thumb that has served me well over the years. If the word 'soul" is in the title or the description, it’s probably not going to be worth listening to. This song was no exception. Soul Man Soul Power (x at least 2) Soul to Soul Body and Soul Birdhouse in Your Soul Who Stole the Soul Soulville The Soul of a Man Soul Station Soultrane You Don’t Love Me/ Soul Serenade Jimmy Soul De La Soul Sir Joe Quarterman and Free Soul … and I’m not even trying hard. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/14 "2010-10-13T05:45:26Z")
I actually didn’t mind the song the first time I heard it. It was pretty catchy and I wasn’t looking for high art. And then ever single fucking commercial had to have that song playing in the background. Drives me batty, it does. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/15 "2010-10-13T06:47:44Z")
“The Remedy” blows dead purulent goats too. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/16 "2010-10-13T06:49:01Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the song; I’m gonna try to keep it that way. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/17 "2010-10-13T08:39:35Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > _Hey sister, go sister, soul sister, so sister_ isnt that actually [lady marmelade](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDlHaZz9PNo)? ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/18 "2010-10-13T12:29:04Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > > [@Guinastasia](#): > > > > _Hey sister, go sister, soul sister, so sister_ > > isnt that actually [lady marmelade](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDlHaZz9PNo)? I think you got whooshed. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/19 "2010-10-13T13:08:44Z")
> [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](#): > > > [@Clothahump](#): > > > > A rule of thumb that has served me well over the years. If the word 'soul" is in the title or the description, it’s probably not going to be worth listening to. This song was no exception. > > Soul Man > Soul Power (x at least 2) > Soul to Soul > Body and Soul > Birdhouse in Your Soul > Who Stole the Soul > Soulville > The Soul of a Man > Soul Station > Soultrane > You Don’t Love Me/ Soul Serenade > > Jimmy Soul > De La Soul > Sir Joe Quarterman and Free Soul > > … and I’m not even trying hard. You forgot a certain Beatles album. ---
**Author:** ![fjs1fs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@fjs1fs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fjs1fs)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945/20 "2010-10-13T13:11:41Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Holy Teri, mother of Todd, is there anyone in the advertising community whose motherfucking job it is to actually watch all the other fucking ads being put out there and say, “Hey, you know, 9,472 other people are using Train’s ‘Hey, Soul Sister’ in their ads, maybe we should pick something, you know, _different_.” > > I’m so fucking sick of this goddamn song. How many different companies actually use this song in their commercials? Seems like an odd choice of songs if it’s actually more than one company. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enough-with-the-fucking-hey-soul-sister-goddamn-fucking-shit-already/556945.md?page=2)