hahahaha… is that Passion Pit in the Palm Pixi commercial?
It really takes these “indie” bands about 2 days to sell out these days.
Hipster culture is such a fucking sham.
A man’s gotta make a living.
What difference does it make if a band can make some scratch buy licensing their music to an ad? Does it make the song worse?
God forbid you make some money at this music thing.
Actually yes it does. I mean, not that Of Montreal was good to begin with, but the fact that they licensed their tune makes me unable to disassociate that band from the Outback Steakhouse. Now, I’m not criticizing them for making this business decision, and I’m glad they could make probably a lot of money off of their talents, I’m just sayin’…they’re the Outback Steakhouse band now.
Their music has also been used in ads for NASDAQ, Garmin, T-Mobile, Comcast, and in the shows Ugly Betty and Weeds. And fucking good for them. Critical acclaim doesn’t pay the rent.
I wasn’t criticizing their business acumen. If they’re fine with being The Outback Steakhouse band, that’s fine with me. I design web banner ads for a living so it’s not like I’m contributing to the pinnacle of art. I’m just answering your question: yes, the fact that this song was used in an Outback Steakhouse commercial does make the song worse. Whatever the original intention of the song, whatever artistic merit it had, it’s now being blocked by a big bloomin’ onion.
