The new ad for the Chevy Trailblazer has a song playing for which I
would like to know the title and artist.  Its the ad where a woman is
preparing to leave her apartment, and take her children with her.  She
is talking to her friend on her cell phone. Her children are watching
a dvd,  I think of the "Powder Puff Girls"..  When she gets in the
trailblazer, the kids put the dvd in the Trailblazer's dvd player, she
calls her friend back and they proceed with their evening
uninterupted.

The song is sung by a female, and the lyrics that are audible are
"...in the snow, bout ten years ago"  something, something, "but I
didn't know".  It sounds kind of "Chrissie Hynde" like, butI don't
think its her

The voice of the singer is familar, but I can't place it.  Its been
driving me nuts for a couple of weeks.  Help me out?

The song is called Bad Word for a Good Thing by The Friggs. It?s on
the jawbreaker soundtrack.

Clipland
http://www.clipland.com/Talk/message/39762/Re-chevy-trailblazer-commercial.html


From the Blank Generation BlogSpot:

??And it was during one of the commercial breaks for that game that I
was smacked upside the head by a catchy rock tune that I never
expected to hear on national TV, let alone in a Chevy Trailblazer
advertisement. "Hmmm...what is this tune?" I thought. "I know this
song...confidant female vocals...tough riff...it's not The Runaways,
is it? Nope..."

?Then, it hit me. I was listening to the verse of "Bad Word for a Good
Thing" by The Friggs. "The who?" you ask. The Friggs were a
little-known all-girl band from Philly that took after The Runaways,
Pat Benatar, and the like. They were around in the mid-to-late '90s,
and as far as I know they never made any kind splash on the national
scene.?

 ??So, there I was, sitting on my mom's couch, dumbstruck by the fact
that I was: 1) watching a Trailblazer ad that was blatantly targeting
women (mom's specifically); and 2) listening to a song that I used to
spin by the most obscure of all-girl bands, The Friggs; and 3) waiting
for the chorus of the song to come into play. It's the chorus of the
song, after all, that's the catchiest part: "I need a Bad (bad), Word
(word), for a Good (good), THINGGGGGGG". The singer gnarls on those
words as a sultry background singer whispers the words in paranthesis.
Pretty provocative for a Chevy ad, eh? Except, the ad doesn't use the
chorus?opting instead to play it safe with the ambiguous verse. ?

?I'd love to meet the person who, when it came time to select a music
bed for this commercial?which revolves around a "mom on the go" who
loads her kids into the Trailblazer, where they can conveniently
continue watching their Powerpuff Girls DVD?thought out-loud in one of
those brainstorming meetings, "Hey! What about the (? )  Friggs?
They'd be perrrrfect!"

The Blank Generation
http://theblankgeneration.blogspot.com/


The Jawbreaker soundtrack is available at Amazon.
Listen to a song sample here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000HZQ4/qid=1102474176/sr=8-2/ref=pd_csp_2/102-9847028-2157740?v=glance&s=music&n=507846
 

The song  "Bad Word for a Good Thing"  is also available on the CD
Rock Candy by The Friggs.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000DMNQ/qid%3D1102474413/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-9847028-2157740


Search criteria:
Chevy Trailblazer commercial powerpuff


I hope this is helpful.

Best regards,
Bobbie7

Very fast.  Ordering the CD now.  Thanks.

Thank you for the five star rating and tip!
--Bobbie7

is this the same track that is on the Friggs cd, or is it recut??...