Hummer: 'It's Just So Evil'

When Hummer advertising reps go looking for theme songs, they tend to hear not the sound of music, but of car doors being slammed in their faces. Bands with a conscience are turning down offers of as much as $180,000 for the rights to use their songs in marketing the automotive behemoth, according to an Associated Press article.

"We figured it was almost like giving music to the Army, or Exxon," said Trans Am guitarist Philip Manley, whose Washington, D.C., band was offered that much for its song, "Total Information Awareness."

The Seattle-based band The Thermals turned down an offer of $50,000 for the use of its song "It's Trivia" in a Hummer commercial. "It had to be the worst product you could give a song to," said lead singer Hutch Harris. "It was a really easy decision. How could we go on after soundtracking Hummer? It's just so evil."

And speaking of Hummers, were we the only ones who caught the irony in the Super Bowl ad that told the story of the courtship between a robot and a dinosaur, with the dinosaur giving birth to a Hummer in the end? Given the amount of fossil fuels consumed by Hummers, this dinosaur mama would have had to die in childbirth to support her offspring.

For more Hummer humor, check out hummerdinger.com.