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jmatonakI watch a lot of TV. Therefore, I see a lot of TV commercials.
Some commercials are very charming. (For example, I'm really enjoying Sophia Shorai's cover of "Hello Goodbye", which was apparently recorded for the Target ad that's airing now.) Some commercials are loathsome. (For example, I did not need to hear "I Melt With You" used to sell me Cheese-it's, or however you spell the name of that product.)
I have used the Internet to watch certain commercials over and over again. (I seem to remember a Lee Jeans ad with a giant woman in a little black dress. I mean, the dress was huge, but proportionately, it was a cute cocktail dress. You know.) It seems funny to me that I will occasionally seek out commercials and ignore the "entertainment" they are wrapped in. I'm not really bothered by that, because I feel everyone is being openhanded and above-board with me. Target got a girl with a pleasant voice to sing me a good song, and therefore can ask me to shop at their stores. I do not feel manipulated or lied to. I probably won't run out to Target, but I'll consider in the next time it's appropriate.
In contrast, there has only ever been one anti-drug ad that I thought was remotely fair. (I enjoyed seeing Rachael Leigh Cook rant and bust up a kitchen, but my brain is not an egg.)
The "fair" anti-drug ad was the one in which a young man explains that he went over to a friend's house, smoked pot, and stared vacantly into space for hours. He then enumerates all the more active things he could have been doing instead, and points out that he has better things to do than sit on a couch.
I'm from where I'm from. I know that a lot of the overblown rhetoric about drugs that I see in commercials is complete BS. But I felt that particular ad was being truthful. I liked that.
Some commercials are very charming. (For example, I'm really enjoying Sophia Shorai's cover of "Hello Goodbye", which was apparently recorded for the Target ad that's airing now.) Some commercials are loathsome. (For example, I did not need to hear "I Melt With You" used to sell me Cheese-it's, or however you spell the name of that product.)
I have used the Internet to watch certain commercials over and over again. (I seem to remember a Lee Jeans ad with a giant woman in a little black dress. I mean, the dress was huge, but proportionately, it was a cute cocktail dress. You know.) It seems funny to me that I will occasionally seek out commercials and ignore the "entertainment" they are wrapped in. I'm not really bothered by that, because I feel everyone is being openhanded and above-board with me. Target got a girl with a pleasant voice to sing me a good song, and therefore can ask me to shop at their stores. I do not feel manipulated or lied to. I probably won't run out to Target, but I'll consider in the next time it's appropriate.
In contrast, there has only ever been one anti-drug ad that I thought was remotely fair. (I enjoyed seeing Rachael Leigh Cook rant and bust up a kitchen, but my brain is not an egg.)
The "fair" anti-drug ad was the one in which a young man explains that he went over to a friend's house, smoked pot, and stared vacantly into space for hours. He then enumerates all the more active things he could have been doing instead, and points out that he has better things to do than sit on a couch.
I'm from where I'm from. I know that a lot of the overblown rhetoric about drugs that I see in commercials is complete BS. But I felt that particular ad was being truthful. I liked that.
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Date: 2007-02-02 09:06 pm (UTC)You know what happens on Joey's couch? Nothing.
I think the one with the guy driving all of his friends around, telling them when to get in the car, go to the party, and when to leave is also fair, but not as good.