All You Need Is Plastic?

18 September 2006 in Music, Popular Culture, Rants

Why, why, why, why, why…

is the Beatles’ All You Need Is Love being used to sell credit cards for Chase?

I’m sure that’s what the Beatles had in mind when they wrote it. Right?

18 September 2006 Music, Popular Culture, Rants

3 Comments to All You Need Is Plastic?

  1. Hey Michael. I was just wanting to share some Bono info in case you hadn’t heard. He has joined up with GAP to sell products and give half of the profits to help Africa with their AIDS problem. Here is a link about it: http://www.gap.com/browse/home.do?cid=16591&mlink=5800,613644,1&clink=613644

  2. Brooke Hall on 18 September 2006
  3. yup. That’s exactly what they meant. Love is a metaphor for credit that will suck the life out of you by pilling up a massive hoard of high interest rate debt with nothing to show for it.

    Isn’t it obvious.

  4. Brian on 19 September 2006
  5. [...] In September I wrote a post lamenting that Chase Banks had co-opted one of my favorite songs for their credit card commercials. The song was “All You Need Is Love” by The Beatles and I was frustrated that the commercial was selling the idea that love equals stuff. Call me naive. Call me idealistic. I don’t care. The commercial made my stomach turn. [...]

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