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Jingle HellThe diabolical geniuses behind Subway's "five-dollar foot-long" song.
Posted Monday, April 21, 2008, at 7:21 AM ETSeth Stevenson reviewed BP's catchy gas-station ads. Rob Walker wondered why the Subway sandwich chain made Jared the centerpiece of its advertising campaign. Dan Crane argued that "healthy" fast food items taste bad and aren't so healthy, either. Timothy Noah assessed Sopranos parodies on YouTube.
Correction, June 5, 2008: Although composer Jimmy Harned initially stated that the jingle's chord structure "goes down from a C to an A-flat," he later clarified that while the guitar part does go to an A-flat, the more prominent vocals are voicing an F minor. (Return to the corrected sentence.)
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