I remember being completely taken by the world the commercial presents: the dreamy freedom of driving around with your friends, enjoying beautiful music on a gorgeous night, admiring the quiet starry sky. It introduced me, and many others, to Nick Drake (the track’s use led to record sales for Drake topping those from the previous 30 years), but it also set a standard for a marriage of commercial aesthetic and sonic harmony that would come to influence ad spots throughout the following two decades. There are perhaps few song and commercial pairings as iconic-and important for both the artist and advertising-as Volkswagen’s use of Nick Drake’s “Pink Moon” for its 1999 Cabrio commercial (directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and filmed by Lance Acord). Don’t worry-we won’t try to sell you anything. Read on for the Paste Staff’s favorite song/advertisement moments from the last 20 years. Throughout most of the 2000s, however, we discovered commercial songs the good ol’ fashioned way. Now we have Shazam, and if we hear a cool tune we don’t have to quickly memorize lyrics so we can later plug them into Google and find the song at hand. For many people in the MP3 generation, brands like Apple and Volkswagen introduced us to hip new songs by artists who would later blow up-or even become our favorites.
Point being: commercials, they’re a dying breed! While we’re not going to cry over a loss of distracting advertisements, it is worth looking back through the history of commercials-the last two decades in particular-and thinking about which ones felt culturally significant. These days, more and more of us are cutting cable and switching over to streaming-only when it comes to our entertainment avenues-and if a particular streaming outlet has ads, more often than not we’re inclined to pay the extra few dollars a month not to have to endure them. However, they’re becoming a scarcity in many people’s lives. Typically, they’re just an annoyance-a distraction from whatever it is you’re actually trying to consume. It was once such an important part of the diet of the American Indians that they buried it along with the dead to provide them nourishment on their final journey to the afterlife.No one loves watching commercials.
We are just beginning to discover the wealth of nourishment supplied by the mildly sweet flavored and finely textured winter yellow squash.Juicy and sweet, with a soft, buttery, yet somewhat grainy texture, the white to cream-colored flesh of pears was once referred to as the “gift of the gods.”.The exceptional juiciness and vibrant tropical flavor of the pineapple, which balances the tastes of sweet and tart, makes them only second to bananas as America’s favorite tropical fruit.They are America’s favorite tropical fruit. Wonderfully sweet with firm and creamy flesh, bananas come prepackaged in their own yellow jackets.The color can pre-determine how we perceive the taste and flavor of what we eat.
However, we also send signals with our eyes before we take a bite and give our taste buds a chance to process the flavor. There are five basic groups of taste, which send signals to our brain to interpret flavor. Nearly all commercial banana plants are the Cavendish variety, and as bananas ripen, they turn from green to yellow, the sugar levels rise, and the flesh becomes creamier. Though there are more than 1000 different kinds of banana plants in the world, most of them don’t taste good. Daffodils are the national flower of Wales, and there are over 13,000 different hybrids. The bulbs contain crystals that are toxic to every animal but a few insects. The yellow harbinger of spring–the daffodil–is one of the few bulbs that squirrels won’t eat. Yellow jackets don’t pollinate plants like bees, and they become increasingly aggressive as their colony grows in size and food becomes scarce in colder months. They are easily provoked, particularly by noise or vibration. Yellow jackets are aggressive wasps, and they prey on a number of other insects and larvae.
The color yellow was chosen because the highest quality graphite came from China, where the color si gnified royalty. Wooden pencils have been painted yellow since the 1890s.
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