Introduction.

Hi, I guess it's kind of weird to start off blogging for a real reason. I've had a few online journals over the past few years, but I've never had a blog, something that I write for an audience.

Now most everyone who comes across this blog will already know the premise of it, but if you happen to be one of the few unfortunates who stumbles upon it randomly let me explain. This blog was created in order to fulfill the requirement for an Art History project. I've decided to use the internet in order to blog about music, and anything else that catches my attention or aesthetically influences me.

The title, "The Dredged", simply reefers to the fact that I plan on using this blog to post everything I've dredged up from the web.

Now let me get on with the show.

Here are a few music videos I came across recently and found rather interesting:


Perfume- シークレットシークレット(Secret Secret)

Although I don't really follow J-pop at all, I stumbled across this music video randomly on the celebrity gossip blog Oh No They Didn't!. It's one of those examples of the expanding use of music to promote products. Now I don't know Japanese, so I can't tell if Perfume actually name drops Pino in their song, but the ice cream confection is all over the music video. Adland reported in 2005 that Mc Donald's began advertising in hip hop music and "artists get paid $1 to $5 each time their song is played on the radio, a carrot that encourages them to write a hit." It makes me wonder if this trend continues on, will all of our "popular" music morph into product placement.

It's interesting to look back at the jingles I remember from advertisments in my childhood. The two jingles that I remember the best, and often find my self singing are those for Mr Bucket and the Gator Golf jingle.

On a complete tangent I've always wondered what this song was created for:


Even in all my infinite internet wisdom I couldn't find any info on it.