"White Rabbit" by Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane (used by Celebrity Cruises now)

[steve2470]

Lyrics:

One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you, don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall


And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call
And call Alice, when she was just small


When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know


When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And the white knight is talking backwards
And the red queen's off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head, feed your head

https://genius.com/Jefferson-airplane-white-rabbit-lyrics

Released June 24, 1967 by Jefferson Airplane

It does annoy me that such a classic song is being used to sell cruises, but such is the fate of many classic 1960's songs.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Isolated vocal track

[alwaysinasnit]

2. It sure feels like we've fallen down the rabbit hole.

[dawg day]

3. It's a great song-- great extended metaphor from Alice

You gotta wonder if Celebrity realizes it's totally about illegal drugs.

[Rhiannon12866]

11. I've heard/seen this numerous times, too - and that's the thing

I knew what it was about when I was a kid. I've wondered what exactly they're trying to sell with this...

[hlthe2b]

13. A young marketing "whizkid" who probably never listened to the lyrics..

and really think it is about a simplistic Alice in Wonderland, I guess.

[geardaddy]

18. Exactly

They hear the song and think "Oh! This is a Boomer song,
so they'll take our cruises.

[The Figment]

4. I felt old when they used Led Zeppelin to sell Cadillacs.

Edit to add one for the laugh factor:

[LuvLoogie]

5. I really dig Emiliana Torrini's cover. She's an Icelandic artist. Great voice.

She also did Gollum's song that played during closing credits of The Two Towers

[Cetacea]

6. Not everyone sold out

[alfredo]

8. Looking out my Back door

[alfredo]

7. Maybe it is saying you can get some great drugs from the crew?

William F Buckley used to sail out beyond US waters to smoke a Joint with friends. His only redeeming trait.

https://time.com/3724131/conservatives-marijuana-buckley/

“‘The attitude was a shift for Buckley, who in 1971 testified against loosening penalties but wrote in 1972 that he agreed with Cowan. “It seems, in fact, that Buckley has smoked grass himself—but only on his sailboat, outside the three-mile limit,” TIME noted. “His verdict: ‘To tell the truth, marijuana didn’t do a thing for me.'”

Sure Billy Boy, I bet the galley was empty by the time you returned.

[BigmanPigman]

9. I have said to myself that Paul and Marty must be spinning in their graves.

I would be pissed off at the Beatles for allowing their songs to be used in ads but then I remembered that Michael Jackson tricked his former friend Paul McCartney and bought the copyrights without Paul knowing it.

Maybe Gracie, Jorma and Jack need the money.

[dai13sy]

10. When Marty Balon came along

And changed the name of the band from Jefferson Airplane to Jefferson Starship and reduced Grace Slick's part in that and started making music that was crap he should have been put in front of a firing squad. Damn she had a voice that gives me shivers and the band was awesome. You need to be punished when you take perfection and totally screw it up!!

[Mike Nelson]

12. It bothers me...

... every time it plays. The song's meaning, band... it seems inappropriate. I don't know the publishing or commercial rights, but they can be complicated. It's possible Grace had no veto and/or the band members get no residual. It may all depend on their contracts from long ago... On Facebook, Grace is as we'd expect... same counterculture attitude. The ad doesn't match her outlook. I've seen people comment and ask, but never see any replies or denials.

[NurseJackie]

14. David Bowie's FAME ... in a 2015 Cadillac Escalade commercial

[McKim]

15. I find it distasteful!

I find it distasteful for another reason. I would not want to be on a ship with people who were attracted by this ad. Are they all recreational drug addicts? Does it mean you can drink all the booze you want? They are escape artists? It sounds rather scary.

[ashredux]

16. What is most amazing is that it is tied to the psychedelic drug culture....

Take a cruise and get High???

( BTW...does anyone else pick up a subtle undertone with the cast?)

[Merlot]

17. There was one song Grace licensed and donated the money

Not sure if it was this one. A company who's values she didn't like wanted one of her songs so she licensed the song to them and gave the money to a group that works for her values.

She's not a sell out by any means.