{"id":293,"date":"2009-10-14T09:08:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T14:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-10-14T09:08:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T14:08:39","slug":"bourgeois-music-placement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Bourgeois music placement"},"content":{"rendered":"

So by now I think everybody has seen the new ad for the Ipod nano with video. It’s a catchy little jingle called “Bourgeois Shangri-La” by Miss Li.<\/a><\/p>\n

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I’m guessing nobody at Apple bothered to check the lyrics to Bourgeois Shangri-La.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Keep you locked in a shopping cart
\nA Bourgeois Shangri-La”<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

“House, and a boat and a great shiny car
\nThings just to prove you go far
\nSo’s the streamer watching TV cute little dog
\nPerfect in your shallow Bourgeois”<\/p>\n

And to top it off, Bourgeois is defined as<\/a> “(1.) A person belonging to the middle class. (2.) A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class. (3.) In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.”<\/p>\n

So either Apple was intentionally poking fun at itself and its’ rabid fans, or they just went with this song because it sounded pretty. Either way, it’s hilarious.<\/p>\n

But the all time winner for missing the point has to be Mercedes-Benz<\/a> for having the unmitigated balls to use Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” in one of their commercials. According to Wikipedia<\/a>,
\n“Joplin wrote “Mercedes Benz” together with the poet Michael McClure and Bob Neuwirth, as a critical social commentary on how people relate happiness to money and material possessions. The song was originally written as something of a negative commentary about materialistic individuals who place too much value on items like a Mercedes-Benz.”<\/p>\n

And what does Mercedez-Benz do with it?<\/p>\n

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Blasphemy. Blasphemy of the highest order. (Lyrics to Mercedes Benz.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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