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Smashing Pumpkins in VISA commercial

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thomsbrain

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I saw that new VISA commercial with Smashing Pumpkins' "Today" as the background music. I guess when one of the biggest financial corporations is using your generation's music to sell their brand, it must not be rock and roll anymore. Once upon a time, this was racy music! They had "fuck" in their song titles and people making out in their music videos! I guess to quote another band from that generation, "nothing's shocking."

Now I know how the Boomers feel about Zeppelin in Cadillac ads.

Time to throw away my concert t-shirts, go buy myself a Buick and a cane, and start writing letters to the newspaper editor about the evils of skateboarders.
 
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Time to throw away my concert t-shirts, go buy myself a Buick and a cane, and start writing letters to the newspaper editor about the evils of skateboarders.
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Aye, and don't forget to yell at the kids on your lawn on your way to the store to purchase stamps.
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: CrazyLazy
As a relative youth I can say I still enjoy SP, and the song "Today" feature in the commercial.
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And you can also completely miss the point.
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The point was the OP feeing old was it not? I pointed out that it isn't just for old people. K?
 
Originally posted by: CrazyLazy
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: CrazyLazy
As a relative youth I can say I still enjoy SP, and the song "Today" feature in the commercial.
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And you can also completely miss the point.
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The point was the OP feeing old was it not? I pointed out that it isn't just for old people. K?
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I think the point was more of a racy anthem from one's teenage years being used in a generic ad campaign. Like when the Stones' "Satisfaction" was used for a Snickers commercial.
 
that song got whored out too hard by the radio stations when it was popular.

usually that and Disarm are the only 2 tracks i skip on Siamese Dream.

whored.
 
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
I saw that new VISA commercial with Smashing Pumpkins' "Today" as the background music. I guess when one of the biggest financial corporations is using your generation's music to sell their brand, it must not be rock and roll anymore. Once upon a time, this was racy music! They had "fuck" in their song titles and people making out in their music videos! I guess to quote another band from that generation, "nothing's shocking."

Now I know how the Boomers feel about Zeppelin in Cadillac ads.

Time to throw away my concert t-shirts, go buy myself a Buick and a cane, and start writing letters to the newspaper editor about the evils of skateboarders.
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Wait, WTF?!? Was it ever? Billy Corgan is a whiny douche and the Pumpkins were never really any good.
 
Well, I mean he did do a song for Batman and Robin (good song for a bad movie, reused one of the mixes for watchmen recently) so its not like this is totally virgin territory for the band. But yeah, I can see where the OP is coming from.
 
Originally posted by: sactoking
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
I saw that new VISA commercial with Smashing Pumpkins' "Today" as the background music. I guess when one of the biggest financial corporations is using your generation's music to sell their brand, it must not be rock and roll anymore. Once upon a time, this was racy music! They had "fuck" in their song titles and people making out in their music videos! I guess to quote another band from that generation, "nothing's shocking."

Now I know how the Boomers feel about Zeppelin in Cadillac ads.

Time to throw away my concert t-shirts, go buy myself a Buick and a cane, and start writing letters to the newspaper editor about the evils of skateboarders.
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Wait, WTF?!? Was it ever? Billy Corgan is a whiny douche and the Pumpkins were never really any good.
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bah, their older stuff is great. fail
 
Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: sactoking
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
I saw that new VISA commercial with Smashing Pumpkins' "Today" as the background music. I guess when one of the biggest financial corporations is using your generation's music to sell their brand, it must not be rock and roll anymore. Once upon a time, this was racy music! They had "fuck" in their song titles and people making out in their music videos! I guess to quote another band from that generation, "nothing's shocking."

Now I know how the Boomers feel about Zeppelin in Cadillac ads.

Time to throw away my concert t-shirts, go buy myself a Buick and a cane, and start writing letters to the newspaper editor about the evils of skateboarders.
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Wait, WTF?!? Was it ever? Billy Corgan is a whiny douche and the Pumpkins were never really any good.
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bah, their older stuff is great. fail
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no, sorry.

Smashing Pumpkins sucked. hard.

they blew, too.
 
I loved the Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan, and Billy's solo project, but the new album was shit. I remember seeing a video of him yelling at some kids that were crowd surfing about how it's dumb and you know it isn't cool anymore when they're doing it in beer commercials.
 
Originally posted by: sactoking
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
I saw that new VISA commercial with Smashing Pumpkins' "Today" as the background music. I guess when one of the biggest financial corporations is using your generation's music to sell their brand, it must not be rock and roll anymore. Once upon a time, this was racy music! They had "fuck" in their song titles and people making out in their music videos! I guess to quote another band from that generation, "nothing's shocking."

Now I know how the Boomers feel about Zeppelin in Cadillac ads.

Time to throw away my concert t-shirts, go buy myself a Buick and a cane, and start writing letters to the newspaper editor about the evils of skateboarders.
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Wait, WTF?!? Was it ever? Billy Corgan is a whiny douche and the Pumpkins were never really any good.
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siamese dream is one of the best albums ever. you suck.
 
Bands like Smashing Pumpkins were the precursor to the emo douchiness of today.

Take the angst rock of the grunge movement, pussify it even more, add an extra dash of easy listening, bake for 2-3 years and enjoy a steaming pile of Smashing Pumpkins casserole.
 
Originally posted by: PingSpike
Well, I mean he did do a song for Batman and Robin (good song for a bad movie, reused one of the mixes for watchmen recently) so its not like this is totally virgin territory for the band. But yeah, I can see where the OP is coming from.
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you can't knock contemporary artists for doing a movie theme or song for a film (no matter how bad and how commercial). They actually wrote the song and did the video for the film. It isn't like they took one of their classics and whored it out.

The OP's and my point of concern is when they take an older classic song and use it solely to advertise. It is the beginning of the end when people start selling off their catalog. I can only hope that maybe they didn't have the rights to this song or something. Not that they were desperate. I feel old too.
 
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
I saw that new VISA commercial with Smashing Pumpkins' "Today" as the background music. I guess when one of the biggest financial corporations is using your generation's music to sell their brand, it must not be rock and roll anymore. Once upon a time, this was racy music! They had "fuck" in their song titles and people making out in their music videos! I guess to quote another band from that generation, "nothing's shocking."

Now I know how the Boomers feel about Zeppelin in Cadillac ads.

Time to throw away my concert t-shirts, go buy myself a Buick and a cane, and start writing letters to the newspaper editor about the evils of skateboarders.
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gen x is now officially affluent 🙁
 
The next step is that one day you'll be driving down the road listening to the radio, flipping through the channels, and the many of the songs of your generation will be a main staple on the Oldie Station.
 
Originally posted by: Ultralight
The next step is that one day you'll be driving down the road listening to the radio, flipping through the channels, and the many of the songs of your generation will be a main staple on the Oldie Station.
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But what will happen to the songs that used to be on the oldie station :shocked:
 
Originally posted by: Sedition
The OP's and my point of concern is when they take an older classic song and use it solely to advertise. It is the beginning of the end when people start selling off their catalog. I can only hope that maybe they didn't have the rights to this song or something. Not that they were desperate. I feel old too.
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Billy Corgan signed a publishing deal prior to recording Siamese Dream, with an advance payment of a cool $1,000,000. So I'd guess he has relatively little control over what the songs from that era are licensed for. On a side note, he was so scared that someone would wake up and realize it was a mistake and take back his money that he didn't spend any of it and kept sleeping in the band's rehearsal space, which was a big closet in a parking garage. Imagine a homeless millionaire.

I think my point in the OP was mostly that it is a sign of the aging of a generation when the edgy art of their youth becomes so socially acceptable that a corporation would feel comfortable using it to sell their brand nationwide. The Pumpkins always purposely leaned towards the mainstream of their era, but they sure weren't anything any company would be caught dead associating with. Even rock fans felt those guitars were over the top. But they paved the way for such a huge swath of modern mainstream music's production and songwriting styles that today, a song like "Today" sounds pretty stock and easy to listen to.
 
Originally posted by: thatguy82
Originally posted by: Ultralight
The next step is that one day you'll be driving down the road listening to the radio, flipping through the channels, and the many of the songs of your generation will be a main staple on the Oldie Station.
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But what will happen to the songs that used to be on the oldie station :shocked:
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They become background music for movies with sepia-toned film. 😉
 
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