Just watched a dog food commercial on TV.

[Aristus]

It had the oddest musical scoring. It used the prelude to Richard Wagner’s opera, Das Rheingold. Strangest choice ever for a dog food advertisement.

I have to ask: what’s in my drink?

[Ocelot II]

1. The Farmer's Dog?

[Aristus]

2. That's it.

Still wondering how Wagner’s musical celebration of the the Rhine River and its surrounding countryside ties in to dog food.

[Ocelot II]

3. There's sort of a majestic vibe; maybe the advertisers though that would add some substance

to an ad showing turkey chunks being fed to a small, excited dog.

[Skittles]

6. same way a limo ties in to cat treats

[LeftInTX]

4. Gotta keep it serious!

[Codifer]

5. I would imagine

that Wagner was Blondie's favorite.

[2naSalit]

7. Hmm...

I never spent much time on Wagner, not many good singing parts, but I somehow sense that the music's historical qualities didn't play much of a role in the choosing of it's placement in the ad. I watched it and I think it was selected solely for the slow crescendo that builds to a finale that seems to match the moment the vendor wanted to imply at the end.

Does that make sense?

[CTyankee]

8. That was my thought, too. I was waiting for that BLAM!

[True Dough]

9. Don't know much about the choice in music

But the dog gobble-gobbled that turkey!