I’m singing a jingle online today as part of Dex’s clever Jingle That promotion. OK, so it’s not really me singing; I’ve just picked the words. But that is my face that I’ve superimposed on the body of an ’80s-style big-hair rocker. And I could have uploaded my actual voice using a phone. I could have typed out the words, too, but then the jingle would have been done in one of those creepy robotic voices — and “Technobabble” would have sounded like “TEK-NOBLE.” And while I picked an ’80s power balladeer, I could have chosen an alt-rocker, a country singer or a lounge vocalist.

Here are the words to my song, which I constructed  as an ode to the digital TV conversion:

You need a flatscreen
And you need it fast
Don’t know how long your sanity can last
Complicated stuff!
You’re all zoning out
No future in sight
And you’ve just got to watch it tonight
Get with the program!
Complicated stuff!

Not bad for picking from stock words, eh? Readers loved these kind of interactive online features when I wrote the Web Search column, so I hope you enjoy this one, too.

And once you create your jingle, you can e-mail it to a friend, post a link to it or embed it on your website, as I’ve done below:

Have fun!

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