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February 22, 2003 5:50 AM

The Indie Rock of Dawson's Creek If you're in a rock band and desperatly wanna get famous, then you might consider selling your songs to the devil. Err, i meant to teenagers TV shows.
posted by Sijeka (6 comments total)

Given the success of bands on EA sports video games this year (especially Madden), I think lots of artists (new and established) will be exploring new promotional ideas. Blame Moby.
posted by yerfatma at 8:22 AM on February 22, 2003

Or thank him. With Clear Channel dominating the radio airwaves, finding interesting sounds is difficult for most of modern america. If a good, deserving band gets their music out by video games, the WB, or car commercials, I'm all for it.

Now, if it's an established artist, say like Sting or Randy Newman (both shilling for Jaguar or Ford respectively), that's just depressing. Do you need the money THAT badly?
posted by jonson at 11:28 AM on February 22, 2003

I don't know if other tv shows do this, but dawsonscreekmusic.com is a pretty handy site for figuring out what song was playing for a few seconds during certain scenes.
posted by gluechunk at 12:21 PM on February 22, 2003

I gotta say, the music editors on Dawsons Creek pick some good tracks. Just being on the show makes them sound a bit twee, but the music was good in the first place anyway.

It definitely helped Paula Cole out anyway, although I'm surprised with the quality of the rest of her material that she didn't do any better than she did. Did she get stigmatised by Dawson's Creek as being sappy music for angsty teenagers? Her music is anything but.
posted by wackybrit at 12:42 PM on February 22, 2003

Buffyworld.com.com has a pretty definitive section for the music used in Buffy episodes.
posted by terrortubby at 2:06 AM on February 23, 2003

Now, if it's an established artist, say like Sting or Randy Newman (both shilling for Jaguar or Ford respectively), that's just depressing.

At least Sting didn't write a song specifically for the Jaguar ad, it was just a tie in with a song he'd already written. And in his case, the Desert Rose tie-in with the Jag ad put Brand New Day back on the charts after nearly a year and after (comparatively) dismal sales. It was actually helpful to him, as far as "selling out" goes. Now Randy, well, writing a song about the benefits of Ford? Cheesy.

And let's not forget Macy Gray and now Aretha Franklin singing about going downtown to buy "a Mercury or two" and Toby Keith being "a Ford Truck man."

Did she get stigmatised by Dawson's Creek as being sappy music for angsty teenagers?

"This Fire" had already been out for a while when Cole supplied her song to Dawson's Creek, and it did enjoy a bump (and caught a bunch of Grammy attention) thereafter. But I think that the DC-generated fans were completely unprepared for the rage-and-brass chick to go pragmatic and spiritual the way that she did on "Amen", and didn't accept it -- looking at the Amazon reviews, words like "corny" and "overblown" prevail which is harsh judgment on a CD full of personal, oft' religiously-driven sentiment.

(Spell check desecration of the day: it wants to turn Aretha into Martha. Gah.)
posted by Dreama at 3:01 AM on February 23, 2003