2006 October : Palebear Reviews and Resources

October, 2006

(music on tv)

10.10.06 | Ben Lee - Dell Commercial

Ben Lee
Catch My Disease
[New West Records]

There’s a whole rash of indie artists with their music in commercials that we haven’t gotten to post about yet. Let’s start with Ben Lee. The former kid pop-meister sometimes known as “Mr. Danes” has been heard crooning his song “Catch My Disease” in Dell Commercials. It’s hard to miss his voice, I recognized it right away.

The song is the 4th track off of his album Awake Is The New Sleep and you’ll recognize it from the lines about, “My head is like a box, and that’s the way I like it”. The commercial features what looks like a college student driving around with a Dell rep in a go cart in a Dell factory. I don’t remember too much else, except I believe Donkey Kong shows up. In a fit of synchronicity, the college student looked a lot to me like Claire Danes’ co-star in “My So Called Life” - Devon Gummersall (he played Brian Krakow). Sorry Ben… don’t mean to bring up the past.

by Bryan | 5 Comments

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