I enjoy the Geico ? commercial with the rap group Tag Team singing “Scoop - there it is”. A quick search shows it is a take off on their song, “Whoomp - there it is”. How cool is this, a rap duo of middle aged guys. They look like they are having fun. I like these guys! Then I noticed they came out with that song in 1993. Nineteen ninety fu**ing three. Sigh.
Yeah, it was crazy popular at the time and even had a dance to go with it, as I recall. The ad makes me laugh, no matter how many times I see it. SPRINKLES!
I’ve noticed that a lot of ads are targeted to 30 to 50 year olds. A lot of 40 year old people
look back fondly on a song from their youth. Teens are baffled, but they aren’t the target audience.
That popular culture reference was so old even a caveman would get it.
Elton John’s “Rocketman”, is being used to promote “Rakuten”, some points scheme/scam thing, really heavily in these parts. Ugh!
Did he really need the money so badly? You have to wonder!
Everybody Wants to Rule the World is being used for some stupid ad. One of my favorite songs to play on guitar and it annoys me.
I love the daughter in the commercial. Her spin turn when her dad starts dancing is perfect.
It’s not the only good song being ruined by commercials (oh oh Ozempic, anyone). I hope the songwriter is enjoying the boat that selling his song rights got him.
I remember that song - I was in my late 20s then, but still occasionally heard about the stuff the cool folks were doing (I read the article about the popularity of the song in Newsweek as the most with-it folks do).
I like the dad’s reaction when he’s staring in shock and we’re not sure what he’s going to do before he joyfully joins the party.
Know the original song.
The strange thing for me, as a person who generally avoids ads, is searching for an ad so I have a clue what you’re talking about. 
Fun ad.
Oh, and today’s Superbowl Sunday. So there’s more ads to see later today, if they’re not already out.
You might be interested in this review of the original as a one-hit wonder:
Seems like both I and Geico never noticed there was an M in that word.
I still think it’s terrifying that Gen-Xers, like me, now have teenage kids, like I do. I mean, come on! Have you seen us!?
I noticed this back when a car company used He Man and Strawberry Shortcake in an ad series.
When I realized that these were the equivalent of those Fifties record collection commercials I saw as a kid… THAT was when I really felt old!
I remember there was a car commercial that played Ozzy’s “Crazy Train”.
That song was considered too “edgy” to be played on the radio back in my day. Now they’re playing it on a wholesome family type commercial.
Little known fact but their song was a total rip off from 95 South’s lesser known Whoot there it is which came out a little earlier that same year.
Tag Team recorded the song in August of 1992, according to Wikipedia. I can’t find a definitive source about when 95 South recorded it, but Wikipedia says 1993. Yes, the latter came out a month before the former. I remember the two versions from 1993 and being confused by them.
Now, I did find a cached page from 1997 that has both orders reversed, in an interview with the producer of Quad City DJs and 95 South, among others. He says:
Did you think there was an oversaturation on “Whoot, There It Is”?
Yeah, but there were eight versions of that going around. The idea came from the streets, and even though the 95 South one might have been recorded first, it was Tag Team who released it earlier. I sold 3-and-a-half million of mine, though.
So that leaves me even more confused as to the chronology.
95 South was a rap group from South Florida named after the highway that runs through the area. This song was a regional hit and gained some popularity in the Black community, but it was the version by Tag Team called “Whoomp! There It Is” that became a breakout hit. Tag Team’s version was released about a month later, although a check at the US Copyright Office reveals that “Whoomp” was registered in 1992 and “Whoot” in 1993. According to Tag Team’s record label, Cecil Glenn from the group got the phrase from strippers in an Atlanta club where he worked.
So Tag Team at least copyrighted it before 95 South.
Well that is a lot more research than I put into it, thanks. Being from Florida I remember the 95 South version being popular a lot earlier than the Tag Team version. Weird that neither ever accused the other of ripping them off when the actual beat of the songs are so similar.
Still surprised that their song “Shout” was never used for a certain laundry stain remover…
Shout, Shout, get them all out
These are the stains that I can do without…