Car Brand Karaoke — short intro
If you consider the cinema of car chases, or further still the amount of films revolved around cars, you can see that the automobile seems to take up a significant section of our culture’s concentration. Three films that immediately come to mind, each of which could not be further from each other, are Herbie, 2005 (a very successful children’s animated film about a talking race car), Drive, 2011 (a critically acclaimed film following the selfless but brutal nature of a getaway driver) and Crash, 1996 (an extremely controversial film based on an equally controversial novel exploring the sexual relationship between people and the car crash). These films are almost like a psychological map of varying degrees of innocence and insanity, all of which are obsessed with the car. Perhaps the romanticism of the car exists because so many of us drive. Of course we’re not all perverse car lovers, but think of it this way; why does everyone slow down and look when they drive passed an accident? Similarly to film, the car has found itself constantly on the breath of musical artists. Snippets of brand name drops could be strung along in hours of remixes, sounding like an orchestra of sawed off hood ornaments and screeching tyres. The most referred to brand, it might not surprise you to learn, is Porsche. See the graphic below for the most mentioned cars in music as well as the artist’s most frequently mentioning them.
