Mozart's Requiem used to advertise toilets!

[bleedingheart]

okay...perhaps I am a snob but for American Standard to use Mozart's requiem to advertise some man's angst over his overflowing toilet is just twisted.

am I just to sensitive...??

[mr_hat]

1. That just ain't right. Pretty sure >

I've heard "Ode to Joy" among other symphonic chunks applied just as dubiously, tho'.

[thinkingwoman]

2. ah c'mon

it's perfect...the anguish on the guy's face as he realizes he is too late, with the gut wrenching heartbreaking music of mozart.

I love it.

[dolo amber]

14. I do too

It's perfect accompaniment for the situation...

As for being horrified, it's understandable, but how many great songs have been raped for commercial use? I've lost count...I just recently heard Cheap Trick used in a Disney commercial. :cry:

But really, whaddyagonnado? :shrug:

[rock]

3. It's good music

It's hard to slight them for not having good taste for music.

[marigold20]

4. No, you are not too sensitive.

I was horrified- I heard the music from another room and came in to see what was on. I found a toilet commercial! Sheesh! This is just another sign that I need to kill my TV.

[bleedingheart]

12. that is exactly what I did...I heard it from the kitchen...

went to see the tv and found that guy with a plunger..I wanted to hit my TV with a hammer...

[jpgray]

5. I think Mozart's body of work is public domain

No one there to protect it.

[stopbush]

6. But the recordings are all under copyright.

Someone's being paid a licensing fee for that toilet advert.

[jpgray]

8. Well, yes. That's obvious, isn't it?

[stopbush]

7. Lacrymosa, mein freund, Lacrymosa... n/t

[kskiska]

9. Actually, Mozart himself loved scatalogical humor

His letters are full of fart and a**hole jokes.

[bleedingheart]

10. perhaps he would have liked it but the last time I heard the

requeim performed live it was to honor Senator Heinz after he got killed in a helicopter accident... Heinz hall did a performance of it in his honor.
it was a beautiful performance and now I am going to have to kill the thought of a man with a plunger when I hear that piece of it again...

:silly:

[mobuto]

13. LOL

Are you sure the part you heard was Mozart and not Sussmayer? Franz Sussmayr wrote much of the Requiem, after Mozart died and left it unfinished. Then a guy named Joseph Leopold von Eybler came along and added some more. So maybe Madison Avenue was not actually profaning the name of the master.

[bleedingheart]

15. Oh I am not sure about the technical details of who might

have written that exact portion of it....

[Aristus]

11. I think the joke is that it was playing the 'Lachrymosa' section.

The toilet overflows, so of course it's a moment for weeping, rending your hair and cursing the heavens. Okay, well, maybe not, but who among us has not had a toilet overflow?

[bleedingheart]

16. well that's an interesting perspective because that was the

piece they were playing....

When toilets overflow in our house I think the more appropriate music would be the "flight of the bumblebee" since that would help mimic the movement of everyone who is trying to find the damn plunger...

[Aristus]

17. LOL!

That or 'Saber Dance'. That's the mst frenetic piece of classical music I've ever heard.

[stopbush]

18. Or La Mer, depending on the volume of water...

[Shrubhater]

19. LOL!

That was a good one! got any more?:yourock: