Lexus - John Legend - Nina Simone

Category: commercial

Summary: John Legend listens to Nina Simone in a Lexus.

Video:
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Music in the commercial

Song: Backlash Blues by Nina Simone written by Langston Hughes

Editor's note: Based on user feedback below, the version in the commercial is from Nina Simone's "The Great Show - Live in Paris 1968" album, which is linked in the second amazon listing above. As of May 2007, that album isn't in stock at amazon, so the iTunes link and first amazon link still point to another version that is available.

Lyrics used in the commercial

All you got to offer
Is your mean old white backlash
But the world is big
Big and bright and round
And it's full of folks like me
Who are black, yellow, beige and brown
Mr. backlash, I'm gonna leave you
With the blues

Description

Legend describes how the music makes him feel, and how the energy gains momentum. "She's not going to take it any more."

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This is Lexus digital sound imaging, found only in the Mark Levinson system.