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I haven’t been as genuinely appalled by song use in a TV ad since the Wrangler jean commercial a few years back that combined a waving American flag with the line “Some folks are born to wave the flag,” then cut away before the “It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate son.”

Last time before that? The Mercedes Benz commercial that featured Janis Joplin’s Mercedes Benz.