Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!: Difference between revisions

In November 1999, "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!" was used in an [[television advertisement|advert]] in [[Japan]] for [[Nissan]] for their [[Nissan AD|Wingroad]] [[station wagon|5-door estate]].<ref>{{cite web|title=NISSAN Wingroad CM(1999)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsE0X_jZzwM|via=[[YouTube]]|access-date=14 May 2017|date=14 February 2012}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}</ref> In 2001, [[United Kingdom|British]] furniture retailer [[DFS (British retailer)|DFS]] used the song to front a promotion campaign and their sales increased by ten per cent.<ref>{{cite web|title=The investment column: DFS's boom can't last forever|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1678590.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125173946/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1678590.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 January 2013|work=[[The Independent]]|publisher=(Independent Print Limited via [[Highbeam Research]])|access-date=13 August 2012|date=19 April 2002}}{{subscription required}}</ref> Lisa Vaas from ''[[eWeek]]'' reported that an internet [[viral phenomenon|viral]] game containing [[malware]] had been used to gain remote control of computers; once in control, the attackers would "torture" their victims by playing ''Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Vaas|first=Lisa|title=Dancing Skeletons are Latest Storm Botnet Trick; Halloween-themed spamming is leading users to a dancing skeleton game that installs a Trojan and gains remote access to victims' PCs.|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-1378199631.html|work=[[eWeek]] via [[Highbeam Research]]|publisher=([[Ziff Davis]])|access-date=13 August 2012|date=31 October 2007}}{{dead link|date=February 2019|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{subscription required}}</ref> In 2012, US recording artist [[Rye Rye]] sampled the song in the chorus to her single "[[Boom Boom (Rye Rye song)|Boom Boom]]".<ref>{{cite web|title=Baltimore Rapper Rye Rye Releases New Single "Boom Boom" Today|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-285023491.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315102327/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-285023491.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 March 2016|work=China Weekly News|publisher=(NewRX via [[Highbeam Research]])|access-date=13 August 2012|date=20 March 2012}}{{subscription required}}</ref> It was also used during the credits of the last editions of the ''[[Jeux Sanssans Frontièresfrontières]]'' in [[Jeux Sans Frontières 1999|1999]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOXK2n1bc-8&t=5m46s|title=Játék Határok Nélkül 1999 Döntő 11/11|work=EBU|publisher=jatekhataroknelkul|via=YouTube|date=29 October 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/iOXK2n1bc-8|archive-date=21 December 2021|access-date=10 September 2007}}{{cbignore}}</ref>