Laura Vecsey is a former sports columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Baltimore Sun. She has lived in Seattle since 1994, which does not qualify her as a resident, according to unwritten rules of local citizenship. She lives in Magnolia, studies at the University of Washington and is the Local Content Director in Seattle for Examiner.com.

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Brandi Carlile is so cool she can sell us GM trucks and we don't care!

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August 18, 3:53 PM

by Laura Vecsey, Seattle People Examiner

You know we love Brandi Carlile and especially her 2007-release CD, The Story, so im

agine our delight at hearing Carlile's crescendo voice ripping through the clatter and din of of TV advertisements while watching the 2008 Beijing Olympics this past week. And then the question: What IS Brandi Carlile doing hawking GM trucks and cars, the same Brandi Carlile out of rural Ravensdale, Washington, 50 miles outside Seattle and whose home now is a log cabin in Maple Valley?

Of course, Brandi being the politically-correct and 'Net savvy young musician she is, Carlile offered up a very compelling raison d'etre about her decision to sell her song to General Motors. Here is her post from Brandi Carlile's Myspace blog, telling of the decision.

OK, we're digging Brandi so much that she could sell us a bridge in Brooklyn and we're buying. What we find most amazing about this GM ad featuring Carlile's title track is that this commercial will be many viewers' first exposure to Carlile.

In fact, here's an article that says the YouTube video of Carlile's song is going wild. Is the GM ad doing for Brandi Carlile what the iPod advertisement did for Fiest? 1-2-3-4 and soon we'll know a little more about all that.

Here's the video, which had 547,000 hits on it as of yesterday, not including the 249,000 hits on Brandi's YouTube video for Grey's Anatomy' use of The Story. The YouTube video of Brandi's The Story that has almost 2 million hits does not allow embedding, but here's the link to that version. We do have the GM ad,

Feast away, Brandi fans old and new.

For more info: Brandi Carlile dot com

Topics: Seattle , Brandi Carlile , General Motors , The Story

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