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Know your audience.
Tuesday, Mar 06, 2001
This is funny on so many levels (which is why it's destined to be the meme that supplants 'All your base'). Make a large company, make a theme song to rally your troops, post it to the Compendium of Corporate Cringe.

These are the internal 'theme songs' of such powerful organizations as KPMG, IBM, Price Waterhouse-Coopers, SGI, and so on. I have so many unrelated comments on these that I'm going to bullet them, rather than try to create prose:

  • The KPMG song seems to have a purpose: to keep people off hold. Any problem you might have necessitating a call to KPMG will diminish in importance as you are either lulled to sleep by, or nauseated by, this repetitive, pointless mantra of pointy-haird-bossyish gung-ho drivel marketspeak. Your mission is to get off the phone.
  • Take Disney music, stripoff everything but the chorus, take out any sentimentality or sense of fun, suck out the Menken and Ashman and replace it with G (Kenny) and Tesh, and put it on repeat and you might have something similar to these 'songs'.
  • From a design perspective, these are awful failures. They're (almost) all prime examples of taking the mantra of "I am not the target user" way, way too far. If these say anything at all about how the corprate eschelons perceive the people carrying the company on their backs, then you should leave that company as fast as possible.
  • So that's where all those '80s light synth musicians and their instruments went...

To sum up, listen at your own peril.

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