God only knows what they were thinking

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It is one thing for Madison Avenue to use a classic song in a TV commercial. But it’s another thing for them to ruin it.

“God Only Knows,” one of Brian Wilson’s most beautiful and lilting compositions for the Beach Boys, is now being used in a commercial promoting the fact that Sam’s Club now accepts MasterCard. So I’m not sure which company to blame. The commercial is idiotic — it just features people smiling stupidly, directly into the camera, while standing next to products they bought at Sam’s Club.

Pardon me while I gnash my teeth.

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John Carney is a journalist, a certified United Methodist lay speaker, a veteran of foreign and domestic short-term mission trips, and author of a self-published novel, Soapstone.
  • http://factnet.org Peter

    I agree, and the same goes for any classic music being used that way.

  • http://factnet.org Peter

    I agree, and the same goes for any classic music being used that way.