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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsJust watched a dog food commercial on TV.
It had the oddest musical scoring. It used the prelude to Richard Wagners opera, Das Rheingold. Strangest choice ever for a dog food advertisement.
I have to ask: whats in my drink?

Ocelot II
(127,240 posts)Aristus
(70,890 posts)Still wondering how Wagners musical celebration of the the Rhine River and its surrounding countryside ties in to dog food.
Ocelot II
(127,240 posts)to an ad showing turkey chunks being fed to a small, excited dog.
Skittles
(167,480 posts)
LeftInTX
(34,006 posts)Codifer
(1,081 posts)that Wagner was Blondie's favorite.
2naSalit
(97,813 posts)I never spent much time on Wagner, not many good singing parts, but I somehow sense that the music's historical qualities didn't play much of a role in the choosing of it's placement in the ad. I watched it and I think it was selected solely for the slow crescendo that builds to a finale that seems to match the moment the vendor wanted to imply at the end.
Does that make sense?
CTyankee
(67,075 posts)True Dough
(24,425 posts)But the dog gobble-gobbled that turkey!