WTF? Why is HP using music by The Who?

None of the lyrics were played, but the famous intro was played while a guy was walking through an office.

Everyone knows this song, and everyone knows it's called "Teenage Wasteland." So what's it doing in a commercial for server software? This is NOT what The Who wanted when they wrote the song.

 

[Anubis]

Money

its the reason behind everything

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: jumpr
None of the lyrics were played, but the famous intro was played while a guy was walking through an office.

Everyone knows this song, and everyone knows it's called "Teenage Wasteland." So what's it doing in a commercial for server software? This is NOT what The Who wanted when they wrote the song.

its called marketing

 

[mjquilly]

Originally posted by: jumpr
None of the lyrics were played, but the famous intro was played while a guy was walking through an office.

Everyone knows this song, and everyone knows it's called "Teenage Wasteland." So what's it doing in a commercial for server software? This is NOT what The Who wanted when they wrote the song.

OMG!!!!! Music being used for advertizing???? How could this be?

 

[PowerEngineer]

Yes, I'm afraid that all of those pure intentions that (we and) the Who once had have been contaminated over time. We're now hearing many of our rock ballads as background music for consumerism. I'm not naerly as offended by "Teenage Wasteland" on a Microsift commerical as I am when I hear the overture from "Tommy" on one of the prescription medicine commercials (maybe for heartburn... It gives me some!)