Santogold is really blowing up. She’s being used in Ford Flex commercial and now she’s got two songs in two separate Bud Light commercials.

Santogold - Lights Out (iTunes)
Santogold - Creator (iTunes)

Honestly, just get the whole album - it’s really worth it.

This one was a little hard - had to get a little help from their PR agency Manning Selvage & Lee and (thanks Lauren). Any way - here are the details about the current Heineken Beertender “Make Your House a Home (Bar) campaign:

Track: Forever (iTunes)
Artist: Walter Meego
Album: Voyager
Label: Almost Gold/Sony

Walter Meego - Myspace

Forever (iTunes)Lyrics
You know I’ll wait forever
If I have time to
But I don’t have forever
To wait for you yeah

So when I say I want
Us to be together
Just say you want me too
And I’ll be yours forever

I could show you a place
You’ve never been there before
I could show you the way
You just can’t go back no more

I could make you excited
I could make you excited

I could show you what it is
I could take you there
I could give you what you miss
You’ve got no reason to be scared

Funny, I just wrote about Santogold on my other blog, and here she is being featured in the new commercial for the 2009 Ford Flex. Not sure which song it is, but it may be a remix of her single “L.E.S. Artistes” (iTunes).

Acura has had some cool music in their commercials, and so far they’ve been using currently available artists. Can’t find this one though. No lyrics makes it hard.

Help.

Budweiser is using a classic song in one of their most recent commercials - “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” (iTunes) by Jet.

“Are You Gonna Be My Girl” Lyrics (iTunes)
Go!!

So 1, 2, 3, take my hand and come with me
because you look so fine
and i really wanna make you mine.

I say you look so fine
that I really wanna make you mine.

Oh, 4,5,6 c’mon and get your kicks
now you dont need that money
when you look like that, do ya honey.

Big black boots,
long brown hair,
she’s so sweet
with her get back stare.

Well I could see,
you home with me,
but you were with another man, yea!
I know we,
ain’t got much to say,
before I let you get away, yea!
I said, are you gonna be my girl?

Well, so 1,2,3, take my hand and come with me
because you look so fine
and i really wanna make you mine.

I say you look so fine
that I really wanna make you mine.

Oh, 4,5,6 c’mon and get your kicks
now you dont need that money
with a face like that, do ya.

Big black boots,
long brown hair,
she’s so sweet
with her jet back stare.

Well I could see,
you home with me,
but you were with another man, yea!
I know we,
ain’t got much to say,
before I let you get away, yea!
I said, are you gonna be my girl?

Oh yea. Oh yea. C’mon!
I could see,
you home with me,
but you were with another man, yea!
I know we,
ain’t got much to say,
before I let you get away, yea!
Uh, be my girl.
Be my girl.
Are you gonna be my girl?! Yea

Sorry - away on vacation, so not watching much TV.

I think this is the correct information for the new Saturn Aura Commercial currently running. The song being used is “The Good Life” (iTunes) by Tim Myers.

“The Good Life” lyrics (iTunes)
Life is beautiful it’s true
When I balance what I do
And enjoy the world in front of me
And it’s time to get away
This is a good time to get away to the good life
To get away on this perfect day,
I’m gonna take time to work inside of the city
Or play all day in the country, this is the good life
I can’t help the way I feel
And I know that this is real
The sun is smiling down upon my face
I am filled up to the brim
And I just can’t hold it in
So I laugh out loud and tell the world
It’s time to get away

Blackberry is running a new commercial campaign and the music was driving me crazy - I knew I knew it, but there were no lyrics, just the intro to the song. Searching through my iTunes list, I found, the song used is called “Live the Proof” (iTunes) from fellow Philadelphian Jim Boggia.

Great singer/songwriter in the vein of Aimee Mann or Michael Penn.

The 5/5/2008 episode of CSI: Miami used the Hives’ song Tick Tick Boom (iTunes) to open the show. I’ve already said before on this blog, great album.

Tick Tick Boom (iTunes) lyrics
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was right all along
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you come taggin’ along

Yeah, exhibit A, on the tray, what you say?
As I throw it in your face
Yeah, exhibit B, what you see? Well that’s me,
I put it back in your place

Yeah, I done it before and I can do it some more
So what you waiting for?

Yeah, I was right all along

‘Cause I have done it before and I can do it some more
I got my eye on the score
I’m gonna cut to the core
It’s too late it’s too soon or is it?
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, boom

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was right, you were wrong
Yeah, yeah, yeah, going, going you’re gone

I saw your hesitating, waiting too much
’till it slipped through your hands
and then you stagger to your feet and out the door
’cause there’s not second chance

That’s right!

‘Cause I have done it before and I can do it some more
I got my eye on the score
I’m gonna cut to the core
It’s too late it’s too soon or is it?
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, boom

Check it

And you come crying to me - but it’s too late
the man you try hard to be - but it’s too late
get your head out the sand - but it’s too late
it’s too late, too late, too late, too late

Oh yeah, but it’s too late
Yeah, but it’s too late
get your head out the sand, it’s too late
It’s too late, too late

You know I’ve done it before and I can do it some more
I got my eye on the score
I’m gonna cut to the core
I’m gonna cut to the core
It’s too late it’s too soon
It’s too late it’s too soon
It’s too late it’s too soon

Or is it?
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, boom

JCPenney should just run a radio station - of course everyone would sound like Regina Spektor. Their Mother’s Day Commercial is using a really cool song from Lavender Diamond, a band out of Los Angeles. The song is called “Open Your Heart” (iTunes). I may try the whole album.

“Open Your Heart” (iTunes) Lyrics
Well streets are long
When you have to go
Where are you running to?
Where are you running to?

Well streets are long
When you have to go
Where are you running to?
Where are you running to?

o, o, o, o, o (x4)
Open your heart
Tell apart
Open your heart
Tell apart
o, o, o, o, o (X4)

Well Streets are long
When you have to go
Where are you running to?
Where are you running to?

well Streets are long
When you have to go
Where are you running to?
Where are you running to?

Open your heart
Tell apart
Open your heart
Tell apart

o, o, o, o, o (X4)

well Streets are long
When you have to go
Where are you running to?

well Streets are long
When you have to go
Where are you running to?

Open your heart
Tell apart
Open your heart
Tell apart

Here’s another commercial from Acura - this time using Citizen Cope “Let the Drummer Kick” (iTunes).

Update (6/22/08) - Looking for the new commercial? Go here: Heineken Commercial Music (Beertender).

Really cool song and and really cool commercial from Heineken. The song is “It’s Love” (iTunes) by Chris Knox. I’m going to be checking him out.

“It’s Love” lyrics (iTunes)
I need you
I need you where
Cause I ?? I want you
I want you when ??
It’s love
It’s love
It’s love
It’s lalalala love
It’s love
It’s love
It’s love
It’s lalalala
and I want you
I want you where ??
I need you
I need you where ??
It’s love
It’s love
It’s love
It’s lalalala love
It’s love
It’s love
It’s love
It’s lalalala love
It’s love
It’s love
It’s love
It’s lalalala love

Didn’t expect a new iPod/iTunes ad with no new product to tout, but there is a new one featuring the song “Shut Up and Let Me Go” (iTunes) by the Ting Tings.

Sample lyrics
Now I’ll go easily
You’re over me
Gone is luck
It’s me that ought to be
Moving on
Your nose is horrible
I want something unignorable
I ain’t freakin’
I ain’t fakin’ this
I ain’t freakin’
I ain’t fakin’ this
I ain’t freakin’
I ain’t fakin’ this
Shut up and let me go
Hey!
Shut up and let me go

The current AT&T commercial featuring Meatloaf and Tiffany is also featuring the Meatloaf song “Paradise By the Dashboard Light” (iTunes). I love the commercial - Tiffany is looking kind of sexy in a mommy way.

Let me sleep on it
Baby, baby let me sleep on it
Let me sleep on it
And I’ll give you my answer in the morning
Let me sleep on it!!!

I kind of like the Simple Kid song “Lil King Kong” (iTunes) that’s being used in the current Saturn Vue commercial. Check out the song on iTunes.

Update: Thanks to Jeff at Silence and Voice for the link to the commercial

“Lil’ King Kong Lyrics” (iTunes)
I was eat to the beat of Cynic Street when
I saw I signpost tellin me to pick my feet off the ground now
So I thinked to the shrink, told her all bout my lover
She told me get a dog that says ‘Bow Wow Wow’
Met a sad man with a book in hand called
‘Be A King Kong And Live Your Life In The Now’
Two weeks later he’s a rummy all full o liquor
Shoutin at the passers down in ol’ Soho

Raise your hands up little King Kongs
Come on sisters and brothers now
All this pressure gonna make you strong
When yer kicked down
Give it a lil’ King Kong

It’s no use lookin for black and white
Cos even zebra crossings got traffic lights, this I know
Second-hand clothes and hand-me-downs from my brothers
Taught me not to never need no logo….No Logo

Raise your hands up little King Kongs
Come on sisters and brothers now
All this pressure just makes you strong
When yer kicked down
Give a lil’ King Kong

The new Acura commercial is using Spoon’s “My Mathematical Mind” (iTunes). Very cool song - also was used in the movie Stranger Than Fiction.

Highly recommend the album Gimme Fiction (iTunes)