"Ugly Christmas Sweater" contests - at the office or whatever. I know they're useful for fund-raising, but criminy! Do we have to do it the same way and with the same folks every year?! Everyone knows the division president is going to win, anyway. Just come by my desk and ask me for some money; I don't want to have to vote for some sweater!
Aye, litefoot, that's the one. Shite and dreary as fuck. It's gotta stop.
Cripes, it's like millennials and Gen Z actually prefer feeling miserable. It's a mental disease. They also paint everything grey; cars, houses, even the front yard landscapes are grey sand or rock. They're sucking the color out of life.
Litefoot – that "Don't Stop Me Now" is pretty good ... if you play it at 1.5 speed :-) The "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is still dreary (just faster and dreary) even at 1.5 speed, though. :-/
I'll start. Classic old songs that are given a new, slow, dreary make-over. Usually sung by some sad voiced, tragic sounding female singer. They keep popping up in adverts and trailers and shite reality TV shows. They're really doin my fuckin head in.
I found another one kev!!. Poxy bmw x5 advert - a cover version of fleetwood mac's Go your own way. Apparently its by a person called... "singer-songwriter Lissie."
It seems it featured in the movie Safe Haven. Its so dripping with smug i want to vomit.
I'll start. Classic old songs that are given a new, slow, dreary make-over. Usually sung by some sad voiced, tragic sounding female singer. They keep popping up in adverts and trailers and shite reality TV shows. They're really doin my fuckin head in.
I found another one kev!!. Poxy bmw x5 advert - a cover version of fleetwood mac's Go your own way. Apparently its by a person called... "singer-songwriter Lissie."
It seems it featured in the movie Safe Haven. Its so dripping with smug i want to vomit.
That one grates on me too Bill. Incidentally, that singer Lissie performed a duet with Morten on a-ha's MTV Unplugged album in 2017.
The first one is three blokes singing in a bar with the crowd joining in - song was familiar but couldnt place it - then i realised it was, at one time, Together in electric dreams by human league (and giorgio moroder). You wouldnt know what its advertising but apparently its strongbow cider.
Looking it up, music cover is by guitarist and singer Chris Kinley, and pianist and singer Rob Waters. The folk duo perform under waters/kinley.
The blurb says Sadly, this cover hasn’t been released for streaming or to download. I beg to differ about the word sadly.
The first one is three blokes singing in a bar with the crowd joining in - song was familiar but couldnt place it - then i realised it was, at one time, Together in electric dreams by human league (and giorgio moroder). You wouldnt know what its advertising but apparently its strongbow cider.
Looking it up, music cover is by guitarist and singer Chris Kinley, and pianist and singer Rob Waters. The folk duo perform under waters/kinley.
The blurb says Sadly, this cover hasn’t been released for streaming or to download. I beg to differ about the word sadly.
The other one is so forgettable ive forgotten it.
I don’t mind Strongbow at all but yes that advert annoys me out of all proportion. The other one I can’t be doing with is Eva Green looking down her nose at a hotel concierge and telling him that she “doesn’t do popular choices.”
Also that annoying Hannah on the bus has showed up playing squash with Kevin Bacon now! Arrgh.
When i think of the other irritating song one i will post it.
I think part of the problem is that sky show the same ads in an advert break saturation-style - sometimes twice in an adbreak. There really should be rules against it.
Smug, condescending radio and TV ads: One currently running on TV for a protein snack ("Q4" in Victor Borge's inflationary language), which contains nuts, fruit, etc., prepackaged and amounts to less than a handful and wouldn't be enough for a sparrow and costs about $3 from a vending machine. Anyway, two ladies are seated outside at some sporting event I think, and one has her Q4 snack, the other has some stuff she packaged herself. The "superior" Q4 lady sneers at the other lady who then grabs a handful of grass to eat to try to equal the Q4 lady's "complete" snack. Another one on radio that I haven't heard for awhile was for a company that makes window blinds and their promo stated something to the effect "Do you really want that kid at the big-name home improvement store advising you on what blinds you need or would you rather come to us, where the only thing we do is blinds." Tell you what, I'm fully capable of measuring for the blinds I need and you just lost me as a potential customer. I don't know how long generic food products have been around, but I remember an ad back in the early 70s for a grocery chain that talked up their in-house canned goods with the announcer chuckling and saying "If you knew what we know, you'd buy our stuff over the name-brands, too!" I'm fine with generics, but don't try to tell me how dumb I am if I don't automatically buy yours. I'm sure I'm oversensitive about it, but it really chafes me when I feel like I'm being talked down to in some stupid ad.
There's one on telly at the moment for some ITV drama that takes Tears For Fears' Everybody Wants To Rule The World and let's some miserable, wobbly neck voiced wailer strangle the life out of it.
This one?
Tears for Fears's peppy version sounds more effectively satirical than this on-the-nose version.
Facebook, Twitter and all the privacy illiterate data whores that all pull us into the ultimate surveillance state that makes "O.B.I.T." look like anarchy.
Facebook, Twitter and all the privacy illiterate data whores that all pull us into the ultimate surveillance state that makes "O.B.I.T." look like anarchy.
D.S.
That's about right. Social media sucks imo, it never really did anything for me.
I really liked Infinity War, but I have started getting the superhero movie burnout. I think this is a trend that has been around long enough...
but heck, I've been saying that about hip hop for decades and now it's replaced/killed(?) Rock 'n roll.
