Yahoo Music on Holiday

I have a soft spot in my heart for really perverse uses of songs in television commercials. For example, Carnival Cruise Lines has a commercial where a nice, middle-class white family frolics about to the tune of “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop which, in its original version, includes lyrics like “Here comes Johnny in again / With liquor and drugs” and “Of course I’ve had it in my ear before.”

But Carnival at least has the sense to edit out the naughty bits.

Yahoo Music has a new commercial up featuring a song from Green Day called “Holiday” that’s blatantly Bush-bashing. The chorus, which they play during the commercial, is:

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

The song itself also includes this bit (which they don’t include in the commercial):

Zieg Heil to the president gasman,
Bombs away is your punishment,
Pulverize the Eiffel tower,
Who criticize your government,
Bang, Bang goes the broken glass and,
Kill all the fags that don’t agree,
Trials by fire, setting fires,
Cuz’ that’s the way that’s meant for me,
Just cause,
Just cause because we’re outlaws, yeaahhh!

If it were 2004, I guarantee Bill O’Reilly would be up in arms.


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