10.10.06
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.
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October 14th, 2006 at 11:36 am
Is this the most recent commercial artist for Dell? I am trying to find out who does the new Dell that has a Surf Music, hard guitar riff, rock-a-billy sound that is the catchiest music I have ever heard!! Do you know?
November 26th, 2006 at 6:08 am
13th Floor Elevators from 1966 or ’67. “You’re Gonna Miss Me.”
November 28th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Everyone’s saying that it’s “Catch my disease”, but it sure doesn’t sound like that song I hear on the commercials to me. “Catch my disease” sounds like some cutesy little tune with a child’s piano accompanying it. Any other ideas?
November 28th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
The song is “You’re Gonna Miss Me” by the 13th Floor Elevators originally released in 1966.
January 6th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Who is the Woman dancing in the latest dell commercial?