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Sorry, but the topic is well in motion amongst the dance music intellectuals sucking this bandwidth Peace, R on 14/11/00 5:36 PM, booty beats at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thought this might be of some interest... > > There is a tv commercial that is being aired by Ford for it's Focus model > that incorporates the phrase "detroit techno" into its campaign. I happened > to be walking back into the room as the spot was ending but at the very end > there's a picture of the car, the words "detroit techno", and the Focus > logo. The music playing in the backgroung didn't immediatly strike me as > being detroit-based, but then again I only managed to hear about 3 seconds > of it. Has anyone else seen this? If so, I wouldn't mind hearing about the > entire commercial and if there is any real connection between the slogan and > the music used in the ad. Personally, it didn't sit well with to see the > phrase objectified, but hey, that's advertising. I'm wondering if Ford just > happend to link together the words "detroit" and "techno" together through > some freak coincidence as both words separatley can apply to their product > but also without realizing that they might be stepping on the toes of an > entire musical community. > > Any opinions on the use of 313 in the mainstream media? > > Jaques > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
