{"id":15710,"date":"2002-07-15T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-15T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/15\/tom-vanderbilt-of-opinionjournal-wrote-an\/"},"modified":"2002-07-15T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-15T16:51:00","slug":"tom-vanderbilt-of-opinionjournal-wrote-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/15\/tom-vanderbilt-of-opinionjournal-wrote-an\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Vanderbilt of OpinionJournal wrote an editorial on <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionjournal.com\/taste\/?id=110001980\" target=\"_blank\">commercials using songs that on closer inspection are bit incongruous with what they&rsquo;re selling<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>On a related note, several weeks ago I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/archive\/2002_06_23_archive.html#78172485\" target=\"_blank\">John Densmore&rsquo;s disgust at bands selling out their music for commercials<\/a>.  I still find it appalling that some of my favorite songs forever lose their original meaning (and appeal) by becoming associated with some crappy consumer product (and being overplayed). <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-85250510?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Vanderbilt of OpinionJournal wrote an editorial on commercials using songs that on closer inspection are bit incongruous with what they&rsquo;re selling. On a related note, several weeks ago I wrote about John Densmore&rsquo;s disgust at bands selling out their music for commercials. I still find it appalling that some of my favorite songs forever &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/15\/tom-vanderbilt-of-opinionjournal-wrote-an\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}