Super Bowl LIX Super Poll

[Funemployed]

I swear I’ve seen this meme before… somewhere…

[1695814]

I know…me too…

[1695814]

If I had Allstate maybe I’d be protected from the mayhem that’s occurring in my brain

[knoath]

@Mathman

You can hear the Super Bowl audience scream 'A minor,’ so clearly people were tuned in.

They also scream that out at Beethoven string quartet concerts.

[Mathman]

And Bo Burnham had a song once titled (spoiler because it’s raunchy) Beating Off in A Minor, lol.

[Ted_Hoffman]

I wonder if any of the plays the Chiefs ran in the first half were ones Taylor Swift drew up.

If not, maybe they should have tried a few. Not like they could have done worse.

[Funemployed]

[Ajstudies]

I really thought the Chiefs would win. But even if they didn’t, I really thought they would PLAY.

ETA: Agree with above comments re: commercials.

[Funemployed]

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@Ajstudies

I really thought they would PLAY.

[knoath]

@Ajstudies

ETA: Agree with above comments re: commercials.

I really like the sloths commercial. Reminiscent of the chiefs o-line.

[Triweasel]

One commercial that made me chuckle was the one where they used the Johnny Cash version of Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus to unironically promote Christianity.

It’s akin to using Rage Against the Machine to promote the Police.

[Funemployed]

[dr_t_non-fan]

Or that NWA song encouraging the fornication of police-peoples.

[twig93]

@Triweasel

One commercial that made me chuckle was the one where they used the Johnny Cash version of Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus to unironically promote Christianity.

It’s akin to using Rage Against the Machine to promote the Police.

Eh, if they would have used the original Depeche Mode version, sure.

Martin Gore, who wrote Personal Jesus, was inspired by Priscilla Presley’s book.

@Martin Gore

It’s a song about being a Jesus for somebody else, someone to give you hope and care. It’s about how Elvis Presley was her man and her mentor and how often that happens in love relationships; how everybody’s heart is like a god in some way, and that’s not a very balanced view of someone, is it?

So that’s what Gore, who was not very religious, intended.

That’s not what Cash, who was very religious, saw though.

@Johnny Cash

I heard that as a gospel song. And if you think of it as a gospel song, it works really well.
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I don’t know that the writer ever meant it to be that, but that’s what it is.

I’m sure it’s no accident that they chose the Cash cover and not the Depeche Mode original.

[Triweasel]

Oh for sure, we figured Gore wouldn’t have given them permission to use his.

[twig93]

I don’t know how the permission works for songs that are remade. Would it only be Cash’s estate to approve this use of the recording? Or since Martin Gore is still the author, does he also have to approve it?

Would Dolly Parton need to approve uses of Whitney Houston’s rendition of I Will Always Love You, or once she OK’d Whitney Houston recording it then does she have no rights to that recording?

[Triweasel]

Yeah I 'm not sure either.

[twig93]

I know there’s a distinction drawn between the rights to the tune & lyrics vs the rights to the recording. Usually the writer has the rights to the tune & lyrics and the record label to the recording. (Occasionally bands can negotiate that the band members have the rights to the recording.)

Taylor Swift wanted the rights to her recordings and the record label refused so she re-recorded them all (look for the “Taylor’s version” on the label) because she owned the rights to the songs so there was really nothing the record label could do to prevent this.

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