Why do most of the radio and tv commercials have a blaring guitar in the background? What....

[jerryme1]

is so fascinating about CSI, CSI New York, CSI Miami, Coldcase, Medium.....? Can anyone answer these pressing questions?

[Systematic Chaos]

1. I don't know about the guitars, but I like Cold Case.

:shrug:

[Bake]

3. I don't know about Cold Case, but I like cold Bud ...

:hi:

Bake

[jerryme1]

4. How about a cold case of bud?

[Bake]

5. Even better!

:toast:

Bake

[Systematic Chaos]

7. Rancid mayonnaise > discarded catheter tubing resin > Bud

That's the new beer math.

:evilgrin:

[OwnedByFerrets]

2. Pandering to the....

baby boomers.

[KG]

6. what, doesn't everybody's life have background music? mine has cheesy Hammond B-3,

with some wailing sax during sex. :hi:

[B3Nut]

12. I resemble that remark!

:D

(Though I try to steer clear of cheesy...I try to stay on the greasy/funky side :) )

[Lance_Boyle]

8. It's a concerted effort to help white America learn to dance, thus

improving physical health. Check out this discussion of the program for further information.

[alfredo]

9. Because Bassoons didn't test well, except for the Gas X commercials.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. Every commercial advertisement seems to have its own obnoxious jingle

Usually it's one of the most grotesque sounds I think they could possibly come up with. There's one commercial that just has the sound of a piano in the background pounding the same chord over and over. It seems like they are trying to get people's attention by being annoying.

[Kitty Herder]

11. I think the blaring guitar is meant to get your attention. As for the cop shows, I was just thinking

about those. I was thinking about George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephantand his Strict Father vs. Nurturing Parent analogy. All these cop shows activate the Strict Father model in our minds. What does this say about us as a nation? Our media outlets encourage people to operate from that frame, whether intentional or not. That makes it harder to appeal to the Nurturing Parent model within people, and therefore harder to appeal to their progressive values.

Does that make sense?