Dire Straits - Sellouts or Victims?

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 10:52pm

Anyone else get annoyed with the new commercials that have someone very similar to the Dire Straits singing

"I want my MPG"

I would be bad enough if was an Apple commercial, and it was an MP3 - but mileage?

Anyone know if they had the rights to that song, or if someone else owned it and licensed it?

It pisses me off everytime I hear it.
Updated On: 1/22/06 at 10:52 PM

[wexy]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 10:54pm

Everyone sells out. When I heard Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll" for Cadillac that was the end.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 10:56pm

Actually, not all sell out, and when they do, they usually limit to non-US countries.

Bette Midler actually sued when they used a song she sang (but did not own) and they they had someone impersonate her voice.

It depends on whether Dire Straits owns the song.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 10:57pm

Is that the one where it sounds like a bad Cher impersonator? Or, is that Cher, just sounding bad?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:09pm

my favorte was getting a chance to see the nissan x-terra ad that used the first few chords of velvet underground's heroin. it was on for maybe two days before they realized what song they were using and it went poof.

i'd be shocked if they didn't hold the rights to it, though.

[Kringas]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 11:11pm

I remember raising an eyebrow when The Tigger Movie used the (admittedly catchy) "do do do, do do do do, do do do" part of Third-Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life."

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 1:05am

For some reason it doesn't bother me if a song like Money for Nothing is perverted into a commercial. But if Brothers in Arms, a song with a deeper meaning, was used, I would be irate.