Dammit! Why do You Tube ads have music that sounds like a porn soundtrack?!?

[Aristus]

I'll select, like, a video about tanks or something, and the preceding ad has this oily music that sounds like it's accompanying a porn video! My wife will think I'm watching porn! Sheesh, advertisers! Use classical music like everyone else?

[Ohiogal]

1. The question is, Aristus,

...how do you know what a porn soundtrack sounds like?

[panader0]

3. and his wife too!

[redstateblues]

4. My first thought as well!

[Aristus]

7. Oh come on. We all know the stereotype...

The whocka-whocka 70's-style guitar, the lugubrious bass guitar...

[malthaussen]

16. There was a time when "Bolero" was considered the sexiest song around...

... so one could have a classical porn soundtrack.

-- Mal

[Wounded Bear]

21. If you don't envision Bo Derek when you hear that song...

well, I guess you're just too young.

[leftieNanner]

2. The answer is $$$

They have to pay royalties for actual music.

[Aristus]

8. Not for classical music.

It's in the public domain.

[msongs]

5. entirely possible to watch youtube without any ads (and their music) nt

[In_The_Wind]

6. Oh my, Aristus

[Aristus]

10. ...

[Wounded Bear]

9. Doesn't that mean you could watch porn and get away with it?

When the wife says, "What the hell are you watching, some porn video?"

You say, "No dear, it's just a YouTube ad."

[Aristus]

11. Hey! I hadn't thought of that!

Useful...

[Wounded Bear]

12. Cover!

[malthaussen]

14. I usually mute the sound when I watch porn videos. :)

[malthaussen]

13. If you want ships sometime, try Drachinifel

He's very knowledgeable (and prolific!) about warships of all eras.

As to the ads -- before the Ky Governor's election, I had to put up with ceaseless lying ads from Mr Beven telling me how great he'd been for Kentucky. I'll take a porn soundtrack over that any day.

-- Mal

[Aristus]

15. Thanks. I'll look at an occasional video about warships. But tanks are my thing.

I was a tanker in the Army, so it's kind of a fascination. I'm running out of tank videos to watch on YouTube; I've seen just about all of them...

In a way, tanks are like porn for me...

[malthaussen]

17. The local VA has an M-48 parked outside.

Well, we're just down the road from Fort Knox.

-- Mal

[Aristus]

18. Lived there for three years as a kid when my Dad was stationed there.

Then for two years during my last assignment in the Army.

Tanker Heaven. (At least in terms of the history of tanks, etc. As tank country, it sucks. The gluey, clay-like mud was murder to drive through in the wet season, and hell to wash off when getting back from the field. The best tank country I ever trained in was at a Canadian Army base in northern Alberta.)

[malthaussen]

19. Ever make it to Fulda?

From what I understand from wargames, the Fulda Gap is supposed to be pretty fair going.
Deserts are best, though. Well, except for the dust.

[Aristus]

20. No. I was stationed in Kitzingen when I was in Germany.

I did Grafenwoehr twice and Hohenfels twice.

I was deployed to the Gulf in 1991, but we didn't serve in combat. We did do a desert tank training exercise for five days (the ground war began and ended while we were out there...) and the desert is terrific tank country, other than having to clean out the air filters frequently due to the powdery Saudi sand.

[malthaussen]

22. Ah, my brother was out floating around on the Inchon during that one...

...With the Marines. I was watching on TV, and admiring how capably Schwartzkopf was handling the media.

-- Mal