[From 2017] "Gang Of Youths' cover of David Bowie's Heroes is on the new Justice League trailer" - the irony of all that is how incredibly tone deaf it is. The song was meant to be ironic. Heroes was written as 'Heroes', after all. The band also coped so badly with fame that they fled overseas... - Kotaku In Action 2

[From 2017] "Gang Of Youths' cover of David Bowie's Heroes is on the new Justice League trailer" - the irony of all that is how incredibly tone deaf it is. The song was meant to be ironic. Heroes was written as 'Heroes', after all. The band also coped so badly with fame that they fled overseas... (archive.is)

posted 189 days ago by bamboozler1 189 days ago by bamboozler1 +18 / -0

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– bamboozler1 [S] 13 points 189 days ago +13 / -0

I guess it's emblematic of how tone deaf and corporate much of the DC Cinematic Universe was/is, that they didn't even bother looking into the history and meaning of the song, or the controversy of this cover version in Australia (it was used to advertise a bank, specifically Westpac, which subsequently got into significant strife for ripping off and screwing over consumers)...

Ah, Hollywood. When will they ever learn.

Damn good song, but yeah...

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– bamboozler1 [S] 3 points 189 days ago +3 / -0

There's also this one for NRMA, which... Makes even less sense, as the song is about a one night stand, and the lyrics... Just don't work.

https://vimeo.com/261212002

2017/18 was a weird time, in ad land...

Less woke, but also much more emotionally manipulative than anything they've tried since, lol.

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