You guys are confusing me - is this the song you’re talking about? Hey, Soul Sister by Train.
ETA: Forgot to say, I did a survey for a car commercial a little while ago, and I got to tell them repeatedly that their commercial was stupid. That was good for my soul. 
Your opinion is wrong. It’s banal, annoying garbage.
No, I think they’re talking about Rio, by Duran Duran.
Soul Sacrifice
Soul Junction
How odd to see this thread today. This song was stuck in my head when I got up this morning (and unfortunately, still is). I was trying to decide whether they came up with “soul sister” or “Mister Mister” first in that execrable lyric, and which Mister Mister song, and whether any of today’s young’uns even know what the heck that line’s referring to. I think the damn song was on Dancing With the Stars last night.
Seriously. I always throw up in my mouth a little bit every time I hear this line.
Yeah. Rub Her Sole.
It’s in commercials?! In a way, I feel better, I thought some law had changed requiring every DJ in California to play that song at least once an hour, twice if I’m in the car.
Now if we can just also get rid of that “Daisy Dukes bikinis on top” song my commute will have less button-pushing.
Posting this thread must have done something good for my karma, because I woke up this morning with the theme from Buffy in my head. It’s a good day so far.
Song:
Novocaine for the Soul - The Eels
Bands:
Soul Asylum
Soul Coughing
Collective Soul
I’m just happy they don’t use the “Calling All Angels” song in commercials. Hate that song.
Gaaah, I loathe that song by Boobs Perry almost as much as the Hey Soul Sister, and there is NO way to avoid either. I daren’t turn on the radio in the car any more. Yes, the Soul Sister song is in at least two commercials, and ALSO in the commercial for the sure-to-flop romantic comedy they’re flogging now, (forgot the name, but it’s basically three men and a baby only starring a cute couple who inherit a little pooper).
I never much cared about this song one way or the other. Now I can pinpoint the exact moment when I began to hate it.
Chuck E. Cheese’s. We were at goddamn motherfucking Chuck E. Cheese’s. One of my daughter’s friends was having a birthday party. And the syphilitic animatronic Chuck E. Cheese robot bastards began playing a version of the song while the window-to-hell TV screen showed people in Chuck E. Cheese outfits pretending to do some kind of music video tortured cavorting.
I threw up a little bit in my brain.
So far, you guys are supporting my statement, at least as far as I am concerned.
Please remember what I said originally:
Not everyone has the same size thumb.
These are the same guys who rhymed president with president and beautiful with beautiful in the horrible “Meet Virginia”. IMO, the worst Train song ever.
Tell that to the folks who continue to use Blur’s Song 2 in television ads, to give them an X-TREEM! vibe.
So do I.
Then again, I don’t watch much commercial TV, so I’ve probably been spared the inundation.
Now THAT is getting old.
“Meet Virginia” isn’t nearly as bad as “Drops of Jupiter,” which includes the worst lyric ever written:
Can you imagine no love, pride, deep fried chicken
Best friend always stickin
Up for you even when you know you’re wrong
Not to mention:
She checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo
No way “Meet Virginia” is that bad.
Maybe that’s one of the reasons that particular movie trailer annoys the piss out of me. “Oh honey, look! A movie where a guy and a girl hate each other (until they don’t), plus a baby! We simply must go see it, for the diaper jokes if nothing else!” Who are these people?
At least it seems like movie trailers have stopped using Smash Mouth’s All Star.
Or as I used to call it “Some bo–” because that’s all the further it would ever get on the radio station in my car.