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* "Happy Happy Joy Joy" from ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'', a parody of [[Sickeningly Sweet|saccharine]] kids' cartoon songs, being used sincerely to sell Sara Lee products.
* A recent Australian car commercial used ''Polka'' by Yves Klein Blue, a song about drug addiction, and how it can destroy people. Which goes from light and soft to screaming freak out. Needless to say, only the first few seconds were used as mood music.
* A series of Wrangler jeans commercials used the first lines ("Some folks are born, made to wave the flag, Ooh they're red white and blue") of [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]]'s song "Fortunate Son" superimposed with patriotic images. They pointedly left out the next line: "But when the band plays 'Hail to the Chief,' Oooh they point the cannon at you" The song is lambasting people who proclaim their patriotism while expecting others to make the sacrifices for the country (and was specifically targeted at David Eisenhower, [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Dwight]]'s grandson and [[Richard Nixon]]'s son-in-law).
** Never mind that the ''chorus'' says, vehemently (and often) "it ain't me". If anything, the song is telling you NOT to buy what's on the commercial!
* Recent commercials for [[The History Channel]] use the Matchbox 20 song "How Far We've Come," which contains the lyrics "Let's see how far we've come"... and ignores the lyrics that come before it:
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* There's an advert for some car or other which is set to "This Is The Life" by Amy MacDonald. It would be bad enough if they'd used one of the verses (which describe apparent good times) and conveniently ignored the chorus (which is a "reveal" of the misery that the person the song is addressed to is trying to run away from) but no... they've gone straight for the most miserable part of the song, purely for the [[Title Drop]]. The music behind it isn't even particularly peppy.
* Finnish hardware store Rautia uses song "Vasara ja nauloja" (Hammer and nails) in it's commercials to promote how successfull you are with their tools. What's the song about? A man failing to build a house...
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* [[Fan Yay]] aside, "YMCA", a song about [[All Gays Are Promiscuous|having sex at the YMCA]], in ads for...the YMCA.
* What better way is there to revamp [[Monopoly]] to be more consumerist than to add pseudo-functioning credit cards to the game design? And then advertise it using Jessie J's "Price Tag", a song about how people ''shouldn't'' be driven by greed?
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