I am now addicted to the Wii Commercial music, it has extremely catchy music and the ad has been done extremely well (in my opinion). I went in hunt of the music which is used in the ad and found out that it is a remix of Kodo by the Yoshida Brothers. So I went in hunt for the non-remixed version.
It sounds pretty good as it is, but its not something people would have caught on to. However after it goes through the commercialization process of adding beats and putting it into perspective of the ad it turns into this…
A little hunting around gave me information about the Yoshida Brothers on Wikipedia. Its quite amazing how they have turned around a traditional musical instrument to deliver this kind of fusion music. I am impressed with this and I can’t imagine what all different varieties of music exist in this world that we miss listening to.
To me, good music needs to be heard, there is no need to understand lyrics or lyrics themselves need not exist. The music itself conveys the message and the mood.
All in all I would give this ad a perfect rating in all aspects. Kudos to Nintendo