# iPhone's "Chicken Fat" commercial

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphones-chicken-fat-commercial/692709>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 9, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphones-chicken-fat-commercial/692709 "2014-07-09T14:18:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphones-chicken-fat-commercial/692709/21 "2014-07-10T03:52:41Z")

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> [@h.sapiens](#):
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> Apparently Apple wasn’t able to license the original Preston recording, and used a cover made in (I think) the 1980s.

Wait, someone covered this song, but not for the commercial?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphones-chicken-fat-commercial/692709/22 "2014-07-10T04:22:04Z")

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I can’t remember exactly where/when I first heard this song, but I knew every word and instinctively sang along the first time I saw the Apple ad. Just for the record, I just celebrated half a century on the planet.

> [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](#):
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> It is smarmy and smug, and it reminds me of that fucking rubber tree plant abomination that Frank Sinatra used to sing.

As a side note, you might want to avoid Citizen’s Bank Park after a Phillies win (which admittedly doesn’t happen as much as it did a few years ago).

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphones-chicken-fat-commercial/692709/23 "2014-07-10T05:14:08Z")

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When I was a child, I always thought that “Now struggle up to your feet/strugg–struggle!” was offensive (it assumed that getting to your feet was a struggle) and poor writing intended to lazily fit the scansion.

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