For the Actor, seriously

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Anyone see the newest AT&T commercial featuring a hot indie band? It’s not up on YouTube yet, but I’ll update this post as soon as it is. There’s something ironic about a song called ‘For the Actor’ being featured in an actor-free commercial, especially as the TV commercial landscape becomes increasingly void of human actors (it’s just cheaper I guess).

If they’re smart enough to understand the joke, I bet the commercial actor unions are going haywire right now.

UPDATE:

Found the video:

Posted by Benom on 06/28/2007
Filed under: News, Songs, Rockommercial

2 Comments

  1. Comment by KP on June 29, 2007 10:32 am

    Interesting article by Steven Van Zandt about the shifting relationship between bands and music licensing: http://fe56.news.sp1.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070623/tv_nm/vanzandt_dc

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