The Magnetic Fields’ Next Record: “69 Car Songs”

noah | September 14, 2007 9:30 am
I caught the above ad for the Volvo XC70 during a Law & Order rerun last night, in which a deep-voiced man reworks the kids’ song “The Wheels On The Bus” so that it extols the virtues of the SUV, and I thought to myself, “That sounds like Stephin Merritt, or at least an ad agency-approved soundalike.” A little Google research made me realize that, yes, the singer was actually Merritt–although I probably should have been convinced of my hunch when I caught him audibly smirking as he sang “the hill-descent control goes nice and slow.” (Nice internal rhyme there, though.)

Stephin Merritt – The Wheels On The Car [YouTube]