Why is Sweet Home Alabama the theme song for KFC?

Question

Sweet Home Alabama (by Lynyrd Skynyrd) and Kentucky Fried Chicken...doesn't seem right. Or maybe because it is the South they forgot Alabama isn't in Kentucky...don't know.

P.S. Live down in Alabama.

Answer 1

cause kfc sells so much hormone injected chicken that they can afford to buy the rights to the song,

it does make a decent theme song, but i feel where your coming from and it doesn't feel right, maybe over a beer commercial, or a for a really nice vehicle commercial, but fried chicken?

Answer 2

Because Foote Cone & Belding thought it would be cool to target the Finnish punk / Soviet Army market.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP0...

Answer 3

dunno, but I think they should NOT use it!

Answer 4

I think it's just the Southern theme.

Answer 5

Well I don't mean to offend you, and this is NOT my point of view, but 'Sweet Home Alabama' is known as the white trash anthem.    I didn't make that up, but I have heard that.  I am white and live in the south too.  Demographics--Marketing, they are trying to appeal to certain people..(working poor mostly).

Answer 6

Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" is the theme song for practically all KFC commercials, though the restaurant hails from Kentucky. IT IS MAINLY USED  BECAUSE THE SONG IS SO CATCHY AND VERY POPULAR.

The song has become a favorite among University of Alabama students and alumni. Shaun Alexander, the Seattle Seahawks MVP running back and University of Alabama alumnus, has the song played after each home game touchdown. That inspired "Dustin Blatnik and the 12th Man Band" to record the 2005 parody song "Sweet Shaun Alexander," a tribute to the Seattle Seahawks run to Super Bowl XL and Alexander's record setting season.

It was featured on the PS2 and Xbox versions of NASCAR Thunder 2002 because the game creators, EA Sports, had just announced sponsorship of the fall race at Talladega Superspeedway, located in Alabama.

The Bottom Line: Its used because of popularity.

Answer 7

Maybe they are trying to give it a southern appeal. That is a pure southern rock band. Fried Chicken is supposed to be a southern thing the best southern fried chicken.

Answer 8

Don''t know, but that redneck song sux hard and I don't know why KFC would use it.