Something happened this week that I've been expecting for years: An
automobile company (Jaguar, to be precise) is using the Queen song "I'm In
Love With My Car" in a commercial.

It's such an obvious choice for a car ad soundtrack that I can't figure out
why it's taken thirty years for a company to adopt it. It's not as though
Queen has some sort of ethical code that keeps them from renting out their
songs for commercial purposes; I've heard their songs used for that purpose
before.

The obvious retort is, "Well, 'I'm In Love With My Car' was never a single."
The retort to that retort is, "Half the population of the planet has owned a
copy of *A Night At the Opera* at one time or another, so it's not as though
this song is in any way obscure."

Just wonderin', that's all.


Gregory Sager