Os Mutantes' "A Minha Menina" in McDonald's Commercial


I'm a little late to the party. I read that this ad first played during the NBA finals, but still, I was surprised to see and hear it. The setting is a kids soccer game, with the losing team getting McDonalds, and the winners envying them. Strange. Great song, though. I saw it while either watching the Daily Show or Colbert.

The song, "A Minha Menina ", was written by Jorge Ben for Os Mutantes. It has a cool sound, with fuzz guitar and all. There's also an album of theirs called Technicolor, in which they translated a lot of their songs into English with different arrangements. Some folks love it, others hate it. Os Mutantes have a lot of fans: Belle and Sebastian, Beck, Of Montreal, Band of Bees, David Byrne. In fact, David Byrne made the first album in Luaka Bop's Brazil Psychedelic Classics series, Everything Is Possible, a compilation of Os Mutantes' hits. And they reunited for a tour in 2006. There's a live album from London on Luaka Bop also. On the original cut from the 1968 eponymous album by Os Mutantes, I think that's Jorge Ben's voice opening the song, and he seems to be playing acoustic guitar on it as well. Jorge Ben Jor was just in NYC for the Brazilian Day festival on 46th street along with Lulu Santos. We just missed them, que pena.

Posted: Sat - September 6, 2008 at 11:24 AM      

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