There are occasions when someone else has the same melody playing on their internal soundtrack as I do.

This morning, a sleepy C stepped into the shower with me.

“I can’t get that John Cougar song out of my head,” she said.

Which kind of freaked me out. Because since the middle of the night, I had been hearing the same song, “Our Country,” currently being used in Chevrolet television commercials.

It’s my fault, to be honest, as I had the NFL divisional playoff games on the television all weekend, and if you want to see a commercial advertising trucks, football games are a good place to start.

But as S said during the Bears-Seahawks game, “Why is John Cougar singing a song about ‘Our Country’ on a Canadian ad? When I think of ‘American’ singers I think of Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar. This isn’t his country.”

He’s right. Chevrolet should have licensed different music for the Canadian commercials. At least Ford had the sense to hire Canadian actor Kiefer Sutherland to pitch their trucks to Canadians.