Unless It's Kicks in a Jennifer Aniston movie trailer?!?!

[prettysparks]

Last night I could have sworn that I heard Okkervil River playing in the background of a TV spot for a new movie called "The Switch" with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman. I KNOW I heard it for a fact actually (there's no way I could be mistaken when it comes to Okkervil music), but today I did some research and could find absolutely no information regarding their music being used in this movie, nor could I find the actual TV spot that I saw on TV on youtube. Feel like I'm losing my frickin' mind, has anyone else seen this commercial???

By the way, my dad was with me and he also heard it, so I can't be completely insane. It's just seems weird that absolutely nothing came up about it on google when I looked it up.

[wrx1202]

Yes you are right! I heard it about an hour ago watching my DVR'd rerun of Big Bang Theory from last night. It was an instant "what the...?". If songs are that good that they use in promos for movies and TV, why don't the bands get more recognition???

[prettysparks]

i really hope that okkervil is making royalties off of this ad because i've seen it so many times since i posted this... on TV and on the internet! and every time i yell 'OKKKERVILLLL'!!!!!

[carnyth]

This is so odd. It seems every Okkervil fan I know has had the same thing happen, myself included. Every time i found a site someone would just say "the kooks" and i thought "damnit, i know the other short spot is unless it's kicks chopped up a bit."
So pleased to find this thread ^^
Also, I do believe this is one of the first times their music has appeared in such a format. pretty cool

[Asmodeus10]

I went through the exact same thing. I spent about an hour looking for confirmation, but every video I found was the alternate trailer. Actually, I still haven't found the video anywhere, but I have seen it on tv several times.

[GrundleSnuggler]

AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHLDVBKDBHKBHK

That was my response when I saw that movie trailer 6 minutes ago.
The sound come in so softly at first, I thought I must have left my ipod on. Surely the most profound band of my time couldn't be accompanying some treacly Jennifer Anniston chick flick to the big screen. Then the realization slowly came, and my life was ruined forever.

[sweetdaddypop]

It's ok for the band to make money off of their songs. This is their job, it's how they pay their bills. If they can make enough money to have a reasonable life perhaps they'll continue to make more great music. I'm just pissed that they didn't make the official soundtrack and I had to hunt around on youtube to finally hear the clip. Now if we could only hear them as background music to a car commercial.

[albinoboaoncoca]

I feel the same, if they're selling their music and it's selling, all the better for them... The real question (and problem) here should be directed towards wrx1202...


You record the big bang theory?

[Alpha Rats Nest]

albino has definitely pointed out the real issue here.

[GrundleSnuggler]

Yeah, well, I know they likely have no say in what its attached to, but it just doesn't sit well with a jennifer aniston movie.

Reminds me of when I heard part of one of the black sheep boy songs played for a few moments in I think was a CSI episode my folks were watching some years back.

Irrational, but its kinda like when you see the girl you like cavorting with the town douchebag.

[prettysparks]

i think it's a good thing, they're making money and they deserve it. the creepiest commercialized okkervil moment i've ever had was hearing 'for real' in an episode of breaking bonaduce a couple years ago. pretty sure he was having a conniption of some sort while it was playing in the background. laughed my ass off.

[cruzichick]

Ah, but without the Being Bondaduce moment, Will would have never been:

...the band in a show bout a man holding hands with his wife
On a therapist couch with his face to the crowd after fucking around countless nights
And there's this one episode, close-up cameras were showing him crying
His red head and his red eyes

Possibly he's amending the lyrics to include the Jennifer Aniston movie as we speak:)

[Magnetar]

Please don't sell out. >:

[makers]

What exactly is "selling out"? Do people actually think that if the band can pay their rent and afford to get a cavity filled, if needed, that they're suddenly going to start making crappy music? It's not like we live in a time when there is a distinct line between mainstream and alternative music scenes. That was the days of your parents and grandparents. The world is way more jumbled up than it used to be. Nowadays it's perfectly normal to have tattoos, piercings, dyed hair, etc.-- all the old trappings of not "selling out". Present-day senior citizens rock out to punk because they were there when the s**t was invented.

Now that music has been digitalized, it's accessible (and thereby possible to be appreciated) to everyone the world over. Gone are the days when you had to get to the one record store that actually sold the unknown band you were cool enough to know about. Gone are the days when the only kids that had access to good music were in a handful of big cities . Today, you can download anything you want, from anywhere you want, read up on music anytime day or night, learn about the most obscure things. The world is as accessible to a kid in Handan, China as it is to you. It used to be that people complained that mainstream music was crap. Now good music has gone mainstream. Sure, there's still crap out there, but the good stuff is more accessible. We may have lost the ability to feel superior over one another for being more in the know, but we've gained a world where a goddamned amazing songwriter doesn't necessarily have to choose between making the music he or she loves and putting food on the table.

[makers]

And on second thought, what if becoming successful does change an artist? What if a beloved musician decides to just collect royalty checks and sit on the couch with their bong and a remote control? Who are we to judge them for doing whatever the f**k they feel like? As a fan, I don't think I have the right to say much more than "thank you" for the decades of touring, couple of albums, or even just that one song that another person was generous and courageous enough to share with me and the rest of the world.

I saw these guys open for the National a few days ago. I watched WS screaming his heart out in broad daylight in front of a typical aloof, unemotional Seattle crowd. He rocked it like it was a late-night small bar show (was much more the showman than MB, in my opinion, who had the benefit of darkness and a light show) to a thin mass of robots and that takes some serious balls. As far as I'm concerned, if WS ever makes enough cash off of one his tunes to sit the f**k out for a while and just relax, he has more than earned it. Stepping off the soapbox now...