Okay, how do we sell our dog food?
I know! The Blondie Song “One Way Or Another.” It’s catchy and anytime any nostalgic music fan hears it, they’ll think of us! Or Hyundai. Or Swiffer. It worked for them.
Isn’t that a song about a stalker?
Nobody pays attention to the story of a song anyway.
Hi.
Coming off their 1978 album Parallel Lines and released as a single in 1979 with “Just Go Away” as the B-Side, Blondie’s “One Way Or Another” was the fourth single off of the album and is one of their well known hits. Now it’s being used to sell dog medicine and occasionally other products, none of which have to do with stalking. Is that the oddest choice for advertisers to use as their music? We’ve had secret gay romance ballads used to push party cruises, and a girl about to leave prison talking about her and her boyfriend’s favorite music to push almost everything. There was even a song I apparently didn’t cover about how teachers are brainwashing kids used in an ad to celebrate teachers. Dumb choices are nothing new.
I mean, you can tell it’s about stalking, though the question is whether the singer realizes it or not. Her character could be a crazy person talking about how she’s going to win someone’s heart. Then I do research before even looking at the lyrics and find that is not the case. Not a first for this series. I’ve learned a lot of fascinating things about songs since starting this series, but this one was quite personal for Blondie frontwoman and future soloist Deborah Harry. She actually lived it.
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