A big black wild gorilla!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This month's Pitchfork column. Written very quickly and drawing on some of last week's conversations on poptimists, this was going to be a much more involved column roaming into some wider places but i. I didn't have time and ii. The connections were rather forced. Actually I'm quite pleased with how it turned out! (Thanks to, IIRC, lockedintheatti for alerting me to the ad in the first place)

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

And not one mention of the King Kong Song! :)

I've only seen the advert once and was underwhelmed, tbh. I agree that the drum intro does transcend the 'oooh aren't we zany' aspect, but the whole business makes me feel uneasy for reasons I can't put my finger on.

I have a vat of far less coherent mumblings about nu-rave to post up later today. Tenderhooks, everyone!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

> And not one mention of the King Kong Song! :)

Of course I've just read the title of this post, doh...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Hurrah a bumper Poptimists day awaits - I have the Pop Open to put up once I've done some work.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Me as well - it is a good column and on the face of it convincing but I just can't get over the CHOCOLATE ADVERT thing, which is almost certainly due to ingrained anti-advert snobbery on my part.

(I haven't seen the ad yet)

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

It's all over youtube comme un rash - you have no excuse!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I can't get youtube at work! (well i can but this computer doesn't have speakers)

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed that! Neat column.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

There was a story linked from Idolator yesterday featuring Thurston Moore saying to fans complaining about the Sonic Youth / Starbucks deal something along the lines of 'get over it you sad tossers'. :-)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Love the last sentence! Hope you're right.

Arguably those Maxell ads with the misheard lyrics had a similar effect in the 80s - Desmond Dekker and The Skids benefited far more than Maxell did, I'll wager - but I can't think of another good example since then.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes good call! Though I always thought the Into the Valley one was a bit of a stretch.

VOLVO!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

dude, the new volvo advert with real actual stephin merritt on it!!! singing a song (a versh of wheels on the bus) written esp for advert...

nice column though, quite koganbotty in parts ;)

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Aargh totally shd have included that - I saw it the day before I wrote the column. Mind you it wasn't as much of an OMG moment as the Arthur Russell ad.

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Arthur russell?

having said that, THE SNAKE is on the new lambrini advert (which appears to be an attempt to start a hella-annoying dance craze (http://www.dothelambrini.co.uk/)) and kill this great song forever...

Re: VOLVO!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"I'll get the 25-34 ABC1 female demographic with this beast."

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[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Dude?! Srsly? I clearly haven't been watching enough tv recently.

Tom I think this might be the best one yet - well done!

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i saw it and thought "cuh, i can't believe they've got a stephin merritt impersonator in, how weird" and then like the next day maura pointed out it actually was actual stephin...

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[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

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[lisa-go-blind.livejournal.com]

We watched the Cadbury ad in one of my advertising classes. Unbelieveably, a classmate did complain that "the song is about Phil Collins's divorce!!!" and thus poking fun at it was a violation of his artistic integrity. Seriously.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i always think of against all odds as the divorce one, but i guess it's kind of THE WHOLE ALBUM rly...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Against All Odds has a better "MY DRUMZ PAY YR ALIMONY B1TCH" moment too!

[koganbot]

Quite excellent (in fact, I feel jealous, since for the second week in a row I'm out of focus on my own column). Your calling the ad a piece of music criticism hit like an unleashed gorilla.

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

That was really good!