# Overused songs in commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327 "2007-06-25T15:14:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/1 "2007-06-25T15:14:56Z")
You know how in 2000, it seems like Song 2 from Blur (the “Woo-hoo Song”, as it’s otherwise known) was used as the background music in what seemed like every commercial? Well, now, during practically EVERY commercial break on television, I hear the “Feel the rain on your skin” song at least once, if not more, in ads for any number of products and services. Drives me nuts. What are other songs that seem to be used in commercials a bit too much? ---
**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:** [June 25, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/2 "2007-06-25T15:49:44Z")
Ode to Joy. I was griping in the pit mini-rants about it being used to promote the most recent Die Hard movie (Die Hard: Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?). The lyrics and intent of the song really do not fit with a shoot 'em action movie, nor with paper towels and any of the other numerous other things it’s been used to sell. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/3 "2007-06-25T15:55:08Z")
Right now there’s a Vonage commercial on that is using that Woo-Hoo song from Kill Bill. That song shows up in tons of commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/4 "2007-06-25T16:09:04Z")
If you mute or fast-forward, you never hear commercials at all and this problem never arises. Highlly recommended by five out of every four television viewers! ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/5 "2007-06-25T16:29:57Z")
“It’s a Beautiful Morning” by The Rascals seems to have had its run and then some in the advertising world. The only example I can think of off the top of my head, though, is Days Inn Hotels. ---
**Author:** ![Arien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arien)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/6 "2007-06-25T16:37:09Z")
The cover of “There She Goes” by Sixpence None The Richer is heard in numerous birth control or feminine hygiene product commercials. Don’t they know that song is about heroin? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/7 "2007-06-25T21:12:46Z")
[QUOTE=Arien] The cover of “There She Goes” by Sixpence None The Richer is heard in numerous birth control or feminine hygiene product commercials. Don’t they know that song is about heroin? [/QUOTE] I recall an _Entertainment Weekly_ article on this song where the songwriter specifically stated that the song wasn’t about heroin. Then again, songs are open to interpretation by different people, like when Paul McCartney said that the whole “ **L** ucy in the **S** ky with **D** iamonds” thing _was_ intentional years after John Lennon said it was a coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/8 "2007-06-25T21:20:47Z")
I don’t know who sings it (google tells me a “KT Tunstall”), but I seem to hear that _Suddenly I See_ song all the time, and I’m assuming commercials are as guilty a culprit as any. ---
**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:** [June 26, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/9 "2007-06-26T00:54:47Z")
_Mr. Blue Sky_ is another song that gets used a lot. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/10 "2007-06-26T02:06:44Z")
I had a thread here several months ago-my #1 choice was the Romantics’ “What I Like About You” which I’ve been hearing on commercials more or less steadily ever since its original release in the early 80’s. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/11 "2007-06-26T03:24:35Z")
Motown stuff, 60’s baby boomer stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/12 "2007-06-26T03:29:54Z")
Since that stupid Dr. Pepper commercial, everyone’s using “Manuh Manuh.” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/overused-songs-in-commercials/409327/13 "2007-06-26T05:45:02Z")
_It Had To Be You_ is used in bland mass-market tv ads (most recently for cat food) every few years. I would complain, except that: a) it is pretty much the last pre-rock pop song still used in tv ads not specifically targeted at senior citizens, and b) it is also the last song anybody still recognizes by [Isham Jones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isham_Jones), once a household name and undoubtedly one of the best big band era leaders. Then again, a liner note I once read said that Isham Jones “looked like the kind of man who would sell cat food to an orphanage,” so maybe there’s a weird kind of karma being played out here.