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Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:37 pm
by Corazon de Leon
Victor Mildew wrote:It's settled then, by popular demand, this year's GRcade Christmas song will be a dreary cover of an upbeat song.


Might I suggest Call on Me by Eric Prydz, and then we redo the music video so it’s just a load of flabby middle aged blokes doing aerobics?

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 9:12 pm
by floydfreak


:nod: :twisted: :evil:

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:08 am
by aayl1
Corazon de Leon wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:It's settled then, by popular demand, this year's GRcade Christmas song will be a dreary cover of an upbeat song.


Might I suggest Call on Me by Eric Prydz, and then we redo the music video so it’s just a load of flabby middle aged blokes doing aerobics?


This would be v easy to do using the source material for that song, e.g. slow this down a bit:


Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:12 am
by Victor Mildew
Let's do it

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:10 pm
by Choclet-Milk
Ok, now we just need to find a tinkly old piano and a girl who looks as though a stiff breeze would knock her over.

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:22 pm
by PatSharpsMullet
I was going to suggest Happy by Pharrell Williams but it seems someones already done a sad version. It seems that I Got You (I Feel Good) by James Brown doesn't have a sad/depressing version yet so that could be a good choice.

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:32 pm
by Victor Mildew
I'll do a demo this evening.

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:46 pm
by Rocsteady
Venom wrote:
Vermilion wrote:There was a dreadful slow cover of Major Lazer's Lean On doing the rounds recently too.



You can't just refer to the track and not post itl! I went looking and found this cover on YouTube. It's not bad and makes me hear something different in the song but the miming and expressions are bad.


That is bang average.

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:46 pm
by Rocsteady
Corazon de Leon wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:It's settled then, by popular demand, this year's GRcade Christmas song will be a dreary cover of an upbeat song.


Might I suggest Call on Me by Eric Prydz, and then we redo the music video so it’s just a load of flabby middle aged blokes doing aerobics?

:lol:

Love it

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:49 pm
by Moggy
PatSharpsMullet wrote:I was going to suggest Happy by Pharrell Williams but it seems someones already done a sad version. It seems that I Got You (I Feel Good) by James Brown doesn't have a sad/depressing version yet so that could be a good choice.


Closest I can find but it's not all that sad/depressing.


Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 7:39 pm
by PatSharpsMullet
Moggy wrote:
PatSharpsMullet wrote:I was going to suggest Happy by Pharrell Williams but it seems someones already done a sad version. It seems that I Got You (I Feel Good) by James Brown doesn't have a sad/depressing version yet so that could be a good choice.


Closest I can find but it's not all that sad/depressing.


I think it might be a song that is actually impossible to make it sound sad/depressing.

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 7:45 pm
by Moggy
PatSharpsMullet wrote:
Moggy wrote:
PatSharpsMullet wrote:I was going to suggest Happy by Pharrell Williams but it seems someones already done a sad version. It seems that I Got You (I Feel Good) by James Brown doesn't have a sad/depressing version yet so that could be a good choice.


Closest I can find but it's not all that sad/depressing.


I think it might be a song that is actually impossible to make it sound sad/depressing.


Just wait for Ad7 to ruin it.

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 10:59 pm
by Victor Mildew
I'll ruin your strawberry floating face in a minute

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2020 12:42 am
by RJ Badman
One thing we can agree on, though, is that all online "casino" ads are the worst, and that their recent damage control of "look how responsible we are" while taking no responsibility ever is even worse, right?

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2020 10:21 am
by Moggy
RJ Badman wrote:One thing we can agree on, though, is that all online "casino" ads are the worst, and that their recent damage control of "look how responsible we are" while taking no responsibility ever is even worse, right?


You don't like casinos? There's a very easy way to win you know.

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Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2020 7:21 am
by SEP
Corazon de Leon wrote:redo the music video so it’s just a load of flabby middle aged blokes doing aerobics?


I'm available all week.

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 3:58 pm
by Ironhide
The Starbucks 'my name is....' ad campaign.

I get the need to educate the average person about the issues trans people face but what in the name of living gooseberry fool does it have to do with coffee?

Corporate virtue signaling at its finest.

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 4:31 pm
by floydfreak
Ironhide wrote:The Starbucks 'my name is....' ad campaign.

I get the need to educate the average person about the issues trans people face but what in the name of living gooseberry fool does it have to do with coffee?

Corporate virtue signaling at its finest.


Next Currys will be promoting a toaster then end the advert saying they support the other 40 genders out there :slol:

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:28 pm
by Errkal
It helps to raise awareness. Yeah they gain too but so what, if they didn’t the reach of the subject would be considerably less.

Re: Awful adverts on TV at the moment...

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:33 pm
by KK
I’ve seen that Starbucks advert twice now and I didn’t understand it. I asked someone else and they didn’t know what it was about either, so next time I see it I’ll now be watching it from a new perspective. Maybe it’s just one of those dull high concepts adverts I mentally tune out from (see also Nationwide).