27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
A Welcome Dose of Nostalgia
Joseph Epstein seldom misses the mark, but his counsel to 'Ask Your Doctor About the Mute Button' (op-ed, May 20) to avoid health-related TV ads seems misguided. Prescription drug commercials are a musical trip down memory lane. The Jackson Five's 'ABC' repurposed to sell Trelegy, Fleetwood Mac's 'Go Your Own Way' touting greater independence for COPD patients using Anoro, Pilot's song 'Magic' urging us to believe in 'Oh Oh Oh Ozempic,' War's 'Low Rider' describing how macular degeneration is slowed by Izervay.
Pop music purists may object, but it makes a little money for the aging artists—or whoever they've sold their song catalog to—and you can always download the original later. My two cents: Don't mute the ads; sing along.
