Paula Flynn's cover version of Let's Dance, currently featuring on TV ads for a certain brand of bottled water, kick-started an interesting debate on the On the Record blog about the ins and outs of musicians singing for their supper on advertisements.

To quote reader Kim Fowley, "if Flynn wants to work for them, why doesn't she just get herself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it?"

Still, it hasn't done Flynn any harm yet. Her version the classic Bowie number is released by EMI Ireland on May 18th.

jimcarroll@irish-times.ie