Meat Loaf 's Commercial Endeavors

Meat Loaf will do anything for love. Or money? Or A.1. steak sauce? Or cell phones? Or perhaps, all four? Teaming up with A.1., there's this Sing For Your Beef! promotion where they ask people to upload YouTube videos serenading them with their love of the sauce. The grand prize is a year's supply of steaks! He also saw paradise by the light of a cell phone too, apparently. I can't decide which commercial is less tragic?

Michael Jackson Pepsi Commercial (1984)

I was way too young to remember this commercial, but I stumbled upon it recently and think it's kinda/sorta awesome. I didn't even realize until a little while later that the little kid who dances with Michael and the Jackson brothers is Alfonso Ribeiro, aka Carlton Banks from Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Even funnier that he never gave up the MJ love in adult life. It must be cool to have this on your resume, just like I envy Courteney Cox for being the girl Bruce Springsteen chose in the audience to come up on-stage and dance with him during the "Dancing In The Dark" video.

A friend of mine actually thought MJ was singing "You're a horny generation" when later it becomes clear he meant "You're a whole new generation." I could see that. Either interpretation works for me.