As I get older, I find more movies, commercials, ad nauseum using the music of my youth to send a "message." When I was a child in the late 1960's and discovered music, I attached memories to that music. Now, for example, I have to turn off a diarrhea commercial when it uses a song from the 1970's. I really want to watch a hemorrhoid commercial that uses a "Taylor Swift" song instead of a classic rock, blues or R&B song. It is intellectual laziness on the part of advertisers, Hollywood, and the entire entertainment industry. My final example of what used to be entertainment is a great movie. I re-watched "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" the other night. There was an obscure actor named Bob Dylan in that movie. He wrote and sang most of the soundtrack. "Knocking on Heaven's Door", to me, is the scene where Slim Pickens is dying after being shot by Billy, not some car commercial from Peugeot. I would love to be around when this generation gets to watch a commercial for heartburn to the tune of Miley Cyrus...
Review of The Greatest Hits
