I know I've ranted on this topic before, but I'll still never understand how people can overlook the true meaning of a song to just use it for their own means. My usual example is how all these college kids listened to the Verve Pipe's "The Freshmen" and thought it was talking about kids leaving school and not staying friends, while it was really about rejection and a girl committing suicide.

So I saw a commercial tonight for Wrangler Jeans, which attempted to evoke the whole "we're American, we're wholesome, we're all about being patriotic" image and feeling. The only problem was that they used Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son" as the backing music. (I think a Jeep commercial used it a few years ago as well, trying to project the same emotion.) They used the opening lines of the song, which, taken out of context, do sound fairly patriotic: Some folks were born/Made to wave the flag/Ooh, they're red, white and blue. Too bad that the rest of the song is a rabid anti-American tirade against the government, taxes, war and nepotism. Hardly a song that would evoke a patriotic feeling, eh? I wonder what CCR would say about it.