The Slate article What’s the Worst Ad Song Ever? has a pretty good round-up of reader-submitted “incongruous advertising soundtracks.”
The big winner, submitted by dozens and dozens of you, is Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, which used Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” in a series of spots. As my reader Andrei put it, “Nothing says maritime comfort like a song about shooting up junk.” A sampling of other e-mails I got on this mismatch:
“Love the tune, but did the cruise folks actually think about the lyrics? ‘Here comes Johnny Yen again/ With the liquor and drugs/ And a flesh machine/ He’s gonna do another strip tease.’ Somewhere between the drugs and the strip tease, it hits you: Yeah, this is way more than an ordinary vacation.”
I have to agree with that choice, but there are a bunch more in the article that are almost as bad…
