Friends, let’s talk about this commercial. I have several concerns, one of which is that this guy’s pupils turn into onion rings as soon as he eats the Sonic, and I’m not sure if this is supposed to sell me on Sonic food, or serve as a warning . This song is also in the wrong key, in case you’re keeping track.
It’s not like I’m trying to be an apologist for the band “America,”—let’s be honest, “You Can Do Magic” was not that great of a song when it came out in 1982, but this commercial actually did start me thinking something that disturbed me a little. People—it is entirely possible that there is a whole generation of tv-watching kids who are seeing this Sonic commercial and thinking that this music is ORIGINAL, meaning that if they ever hear the America version, they are going to wonder why those old guys are singing the Sonic song. This reminds me of this one time, when my friend Chris in San Francisco was dating a much-younger guy, and the guy started singing “Getting Better All the Time” because he heard it in a commercial, and Chris sang the rest of the song, and the much-younger guy was like “You can’t just make up lyrics like that.”
Let’s pause for a moment and mourn the tragedy of our lost youth, THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE ON EARTH WHO DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE BEATLES.
I’m just saying, we are old. The other day I made a reference to Pulp Fiction to a customer service person, and she said “Oh, I’ve never seen that movie—didn’t it come out in the 80’s?”
