The first time I heard the beat being used in a Pepsi Zero Sugar commercial, I thought, just for a moment, "Am I about to hear Kool & The Gang's 'Let's Go Dancin?'" Then, immediately, I thought, "No, of course not. It's a good tune, but this is a new product; logically, they're going to use more contemporary music."
Such is my idealism about music that I thought, just for a second, a hit that just grazed the charts in late 1982 and early '83 would be used in a commercial. Is this what people meant when they wrote, "Don't ever change," in my high school yearbook?
