Read This: The death of the advertising jingle

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Here’s one for anybody who still wakes up with “Stuck On Band-Aid Brand” locked in their head—despite the fact that they haven’t heard the once-ubiquitious bandage ditty in at least 15 years—and wants a little revenge: a longform piece in The Atlantic, tracking the rise and eventual death of the advertising jingle.
Tracing the art form from its first hints, in a mournful barbershop quartet from the 1920s, up until Michael Jackson managed to pretty much kill them off in the ’80s by heralding the rise of licensed songs instead of short, 5-second ear worms, its a comprehensive look at how advertisers continue to seek out the ways to unlock our ape brains through song: