Shins hawking McDonalds...

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What the heck is that pleasant little Shins' ditty doing in a McDonalds commercial? What next... New Order pandering at the feet of Sunkist? Oh wait... that happened. Anyway, back to the Shins... what the hell?

― Tim DiGravina, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

are you being serious?

― Brock K, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah, very disconcerting. If it were anything other than "New Slang" I wouldn't care, but the only reason they got any attention was that single. Absolutely the best pop song of last year. And now it will be tied to Mickey D's. Fuckers. I have yet to see it and I hope I don't.

― Yancey, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

INDIE DEAD. DEAD INDIE, DEAD!

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Also: Why McDonalds and what the hell is the point of that baby in the commercial? It's edited (quite sloppily) to seem poignant, but maybe we're supposed to ponder the baby's sad future after her/his arteries have hardened from those nasty fries and regurgitated meat products the dad's force-feeding the little tot. Who's responsible for this minor debacle? The Shins? Subpop?

― Tim DiGravina, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'd hasten to say I felt taken, but...sort of. The Shins came out with a calm aesthetic that took me back to the pre-DGC days when you could buy Sub Pop, Merge and Matador records in most stores, sans the 800 kids trying to become "The True Fan" of band X (and the 800 others telling you "the drummer's Dad owns Nike and they're rich brats so f*ck them").

The original 8mm video (on the CD) and the for-TV remake are both perfect visual accompaniment for (I concur) the sweetest single to come out of independent music in a long time. Seeing the McDonald's logo over it was sort of disheartening. Hopefully they made a lot of money; they've run that ad during every night of NBC's Olympic coverage.

― Chris Ott, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well Ned maybe they can make some Big Macs from their bodies. ;-)

― helenfordsdale, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

*munch munch*

when you could buy Sub Pop, Merge and Matador records in most stores

I didn't exactly see the Sam Goodys of the world rushing to stock those items.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Wait ... McDonald's commercial uses Shins song containing line about "dirt in your fries?"

Are they trying to tell us something?

― Nitsuh, Wednesday, 20 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

yeah, and the Looper song played for those awful Xerox ads during the Olympics... also remember hearing staralful by sigur ros, but i cant remember what they were selling..

― phil, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

yeah i saw the McDonald's commercial during the Olympics Womens Free Skate. It was really bizarre- a man playing with a baby and you could here the beginning of "new slang" in the background. i had no idea it was a Mcdonald's commercial till the very end when they showed that McDonalds "smile" symbol. it was kind of disturbing really. but does anyone know how this may have happened? because some bands sell their music to a licensing agency not knowing where it will go. My guess is that the Shins didn't intend for "new slang" ending up as a McDonalds promotion.

― paul garcia, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...

It's pretty good isn't it? You can hear the song that much more

― Heath, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

this is the first answer to such a question which i can take seriously.

― jess, Sunday, 28 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

penis is attract

― mike hanle y, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

two months pass...

Maybe it wasn't really The Shins. I mean, I hope to God that James Mercer is making better management decisions than that. We could get lucky and find out that it was something else.

― Hermonie Williams, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why does this bother anyone? There are literally thousands of songs used in commercials and they run for a few weeks or months and that's it. There's nothing special or shocking to me about The Shins popping up in a McDonalds commercial. Sometimes it's even exciting, like when Acura used "Instrumental" by Galaxie 500 to pretty cool effect.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I won't lie and say I haven't fallen for it (McDonald's) but it's a damn shame that the shins have sold out to supercorporate craziness.

― Mari, Monday, 12 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

how is it selling out if they havent changed their writing process? they sold the song for profit, what's the harm?

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 30 July 2004 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

ba da ba ba baaaaah, I'm hatin' it.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 31 July 2004 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been listening to "I'm Lovin' It" alot.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 31 July 2004 07:18 (nineteen years ago) link

the original by MC Mayor McCheese & The FryGuys or the DJ Hamburglar re-mix?

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Saturday, 31 July 2004 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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