Things I Love: Rhythmic Coincidences

August 16, 2006 ·

This might seem odd, but I love it when you are driving down the street listening to music and something outside moves along at the exact same beat. For example, a jogger on the sidewalk is taking steps at the exact same beat as your music. Or, like today, I was listening to “On The Road Again” while I was driving down 95 here in Las Vegas. If you’ve taken that road just East of the Sphagetti Bowl, you know that there is quite a bit of bounce on that road. My truck was bouncing up and down at the exact same beat as the song. I think that is cool.

There was a car commercial a while back that had everything lining up with the music as they drove. I loved it. I call these Rythmic Coincidences. Here’s hoping you get to have some soon.

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5 Responses to “Things I Love: Rhythmic Coincidences”

kaarthik on August 16th, 2006 9:42 am

This is the ad you are refering to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4GCq56bq_k&search=vw%20synchronicity
Brian on August 16th, 2006 9:46 am

YES! That is exactly it. I knew it was a Volkswagon commercial but I didn’t know what it was called.

Thanks. I love that commercial.
RKM on August 16th, 2006 3:25 pm

And that’s Nina from 24 in the video!
Shaun on September 14th, 2006 9:51 am

I read this the other day and today i remembered this post as i was bouncing the the beat and i caught 1 blinker of another car in perfect sync and another one on the off beat. thanks!
Cory Klingsporn on November 1st, 2006 9:34 pm

Darn, I love those, too! It’s especially great not only with outside things, but if you say the same words as a song in a different context at the same time, or if something in a video’s audio (if it is just an audio track, with, say, a song) coincides with something in the video! Those are great!