Getting a song stuck in my head drives me crazy. When I can’t remember where I know the song from, it drives me even more crazy. And when I can’t figure out the name or the song or who the artist is, it drives me absolutely bonkers!
I mostly watch television these days on my computer, either using DirecTV Stream or one of a few video streaming apps (like Pluto). These streaming solutions have commercials just like regular cable television, but they seem to have a smaller stable of commercials meaning I end up seeing the same ones over and over — sometimes even twice during the same commercial break!
One commercial I’ve seen dozens of times this month is this one advertising Hyundai’s 2023 Tucson. I’m not in the market for a car and normally a commercial like this would go in one ear and out the other, but the song used in this commercial is stuck in my brain!
“Hello blue skies, Country moonlight, Touch of sunshine… Come along for the ride, you’re mine… Take me with you, take me with you…”
I am not as up on pop music as I once was. The singer sounds a bit like Christina Aguilera to me, but maybe that’s just the production? It’s not the style of music I would typically seek out, but after seeing this commercial and hearing this song so many times, I felt compelled to track down the artist!
I went online and quickly learned that I was not the only person trying to track down information regarding this song. What’s odd is that each post I found trailed off without an answer. No one was able to identify the artist or even the name of the song. On page after page I found people trying to track down “that catchy song in that new car commercial.”
I was about to give up when I came across this thread on Reddit that appeared in their “NameThatSong” sub. A user named “ZigsMusic” was able to solve the mystery and shed some light on the elusive song.
It turns out Zigs, as she is known professionally, was the vocalist on the “song” — and I put the word song in quotes because, in fact, there is no song. The 30 second clip you hear in the commercial is all that was recorded. It wasn’t cut down from a complete song. The snippet that appears in the commercial is the song.
Zigs went on the share a link to some of her other music, which you can check out below. Hopefully she’s able to hitch her wagon to the commercial and get some exposure through it. It wouldn’t be the first time an unknown performer got a hit by appearing in a commercial. Good luck, Zigs!
