May 2010
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January 2010
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I Feel Like An Old Lady, or The 90's Were Twenty...
The year is 1997. I am 14 years old and embarking on yet another road trip with my Dad, a couple of hours north, into the country for a Christmas party. As usual, Dad has chosen The Eagles, Bad Company and Cold Chisel to accompany us on our trip.
I do not want to listen to any of these, so I bring a friend’s Discman and spend the entire drive listening to Green Day, Nirvana and the Foo...
Open Happiness - Marketing disguised as Music or...
So, I’m sitting here watching Video Hits (I know, right??) and the video for Open Happiness starts. At first, it looks like an ad, and I am confused because I thought the ad break had just ended, but I recognise the guy from Gnarls Barkley and think “Hmm, so maybe it is a song.”
Turns out, it IS a song. No longer content with just infecting our ad breaks, Coca Cola, under the...