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Home : News : Apple Uses Racy Pixies Song in New Ad Campaign

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Apple Uses Racy Pixies Song in New Ad Campaign

Apr 23, 2014 by J. Frank Wilson
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Apple launched their new marketing tagline, “You’re more powerful than you think,” with a commercial featuring a rendition of the extremely popular Pixies song, “Gigantic.” It is a strange choice for Apple. The song’s voyeuristic lyrics describe a woman’s observation of an attractive black man making love to another woman. Pixies bassist, Kim Deal, wrote the song after watching the film Crimes of the Heart, in which a married woman falls in love with a black teenager. However, the Apple commercial only uses the song’s chorus, “Gigantic. Gigantic. Gigantic. A big, big love.”

Not only is the song’s subject strange, but the age of the song too. Apple usually uses newer songs in their advertising. Some of their recent choices have been the Sleigh Bells‘ “Rill Rill” and Lemaitre‘s “1:18.” But “Gigantic” is a classic. It was the Pixies’ first single off their first album, Surfer Rosa – Pixies in 1988.

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Are you a huge Pixies fan like myself? What do you think about this new Apple commercial? Please post a comment below or tweet us @methodshop.

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J. Frank Wilson
J. Frank Wilson

Frank Wilson is a retired teacher with over 30 years of combined experience in the education, small business technology, and real estate business. He now blogs as a hobby and spends most days tinkering with old computers. Wilson is passionate about tech, enjoys fishing, and loves drinking beer.


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