Songs that should never be licensed again
Our awesome music licensing coordinator, Jen Pray (yes, she of the John Hughes greatest hits of a generation dressing down of our then-intern) let loose with a little rant on Twitter:
@prennyjay: Dear Trailer Houses, Promo Depts, Music Supers, Directors, & Producers: STOP USING BEP "I GOTTA FEELING."
(Watch one example above from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Ironically, this is an embeddable clip, but none the BEP's actual video of this song is not.)
I retweeted at @current_music, asking for what else you'd plead to never again be licensed to anything because if you once loved it you've now lost all respect. Your responses were too good to truncate in mere 140-character bites, so here they are in their entirety:
@terabyte240 @current_music YES - I realize MJ was probably up to his ears in debt, but knock it off with the Beatles' "Come Together". Gonna scream.
@hennepinhaiku @current_music: No MGMT/no Juno Soundtrack pieces/Kid Cudi's tired.
@meganwest @current_music half of Kasabian's first album.
@pseudopseudo @current_music Iggy Pop - "Lust For Life". Not really on *everything*, but on enough stuff that I die a little inside when I hear it.
@NTChaddius @current_music Some have been trying to bring back the "Requiem for a Tower" mix with a slightly different beat... we're not fooled
@WhiteGoodman @current_music New Radicals "You Get What you Give." Anything by Smash Mouth.
@Ellovater @current_music the fray's "you found me" Makes me want to write "you lost me"
@sarahindie @current_music The Turtles' "Happy Together." I used to love that song. Now it brings up memories of dancing bagels and cream cheese, etc.
@kid_amy @current_music ugh, I just heard Digable Planets "Rebirth of Slick" for a Tide commercial yesterday! and also New Order's "Ceremony" I like those songs, just found it appalling they were being used in commercials :(
@lexicaljewel @current_music Blur - Song 2. Good god.
@stephenbarros verve- bittersweet symphony ..ugh!
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