Oasis - Whatever. Music video & a Coke commercial using the song, 17 years after Coke sued them for using a song.

[highplainsdem]

Videos and an article about Oasis, Coke, and songs that work really well with ads, and the world wants to sing.

First, the music video, filmed when Noel was still drunk from the night before, according to what I've read.

Article from Far Out magazine in 2022, explaining how they got in trouble with Coca-Cola because their second single, Shakermaker, had borrowed too much from I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing, which had started out as a Coke radio jingle before being turned into a hit by the New Seekers in 1971. (When Noel was only a few years old, but he would've heard the song a lot as a kid.)

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-oasis-were-sued-by-coca-cola/

There are videos of both the Oasis and the New Seekers hits at that link.

The final paragraph of that article mentioned something I hadn't heard about before

Ironically, Oasis’ relationship with the drinks brand has now gone full-circle after they were presumably paid handsomely in 2012 by Coca-Cola to use their song ‘Whatever’ in an advertising campaign to celebrate their 125th anniversary.

and I found the ad - both English and Spanish versions (it was originally shown in Colombia, then more of Latin America). Both versions below, English first.

It was done in 2011, not 2012. It uses a minute and a half of that Oasis song.

And IMO it might be the best Coke ad ever.

[speak easy]

1. "when Noel was still drunk from the night before"

Hey, that's Liam's gig! Or was. [snark] Or maybe he's hiding some booze related bruising under his shades and that bucket hat. [/snark] I hope he doesn't wear one in Sydney!