Honda's new commercial advertising the 2010 Accord is simple. A row displaying eight generations of Honda Accords scroll by as doors, headlights, and windshield wipers open, turn on and move, respectively, to the pop-y piano-driven 'Inside Still Beats' by the newly emerged artist Ellem.
With a lyrical style in the vein of Lily Allen and Ingrid Michaelson, Ellem's jazzy 'Inside Still Beats' is the title track off her Feb.18th-released album of the same name, that fuses her British pop sensibilities with her Los Angeles lifestyle. Ellem's music can be sampled on MySpace and the album is available via iTunes and cdbaby. Check out the commercial below to hear her title track!
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(Page 1)2. I find this sugary-sweet tune so grating, that I looked it up online.
Posted at 6:29PM on May 25th 2010 by pauljcurley
3. Help, During the World Series game 2 I believe, Honda had a commericial for the Accord. A car was in a desert setting with mountains in the background and the sun rising and setting. a song was playing, and very "Hollies" like and at the end the only lyrics was, "Here I Am." Can anyone help me with this? A very new commerical and I have only seen it 2 times. Please help me on this one! Thanks
Posted at 10:39AM on Oct 31st 2010 by Jimmy Adams
4. Jimmy, the song is "The Only Living Boy In New York" by Simon and Garfunkel... old song.
Posted at 12:17PM on Oct 31st 2010 by Rusty Zoller
5. Rusty, thanks so much. I remember this song back when I was in high school. I just could not remember (Yea, I getting old :)
Anyway, thanks again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted at 10:46PM on Nov 3rd 2010 by Jimmy Adams
6. I knew that song ....just couldn't remember the Title....circa 1970..."Bridge Over Troubled Water" album...last song side 2 if memory serves me well....One of The Best Albums ever...So Glad Honda is using it!!
Posted at 9:54PM on Nov 2nd 2010 by Nicole
7. yes the song was writted by simon and garfunkel, but the version they are using is by 'everything but the girl' wonder if either artist knows they are using it.
Posted at 2:19PM on Nov 4th 2010 by jeff hopkins
8. The song was written by Simon - a message to Garfunkel, who had left him while they were recording the BOTW album. Garfunkel went to film CATCH 22. Simon is the songwriter. The commercial is not the EBTG version.
Posted at 11:44AM on Nov 14th 2010 by Jeanette N
9. love the song my accord is 1993,still strong
Posted at 9:30PM on Nov 5th 2010 by k adams
10. Thsnks! I love the internet! I was in pain trying to think of the woderful S&G song with the words "here I am" in my mind for weeks... it was hurting me! Then, I thought, maybe...just maybe... somebody else has been going thru the same thing! THANK YOU ALL! I can free my mind now!
Posted at 2:19PM on Nov 27th 2010 by Steve
11. Jimmy, I'm so glad you asked about that song...been driving me crazy trying to remember who sang it & what the title was.
Posted at 10:55PM on Feb 20th 2011 by MiaTomes
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1. This is a perfect example of how great music can be used to sell things. Most companies use trash or deafening percussion to get us to buy things or listen to weather, etc. The result is that it gets turned off. The station gets switched. This one, one of the Crest commercials, one of the McDonald's commercials and some others are outstanding. The result is that people will buy these products. Drums pounded into us will not make us buy things. They will make us turn the station.
Posted at 6:58PM on May 23rd 2010 by Harold Bradford