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Alright then, friendslist, talk to me about adverts.
I'm not entirely sure why this interests me; I've always found myself a tad unnerved by the effect publicity can have on me. I mean, I've never really been inspired by an advert alone to rush out and buy something, but there've been posters or TV/radio ads that've wormed their way into my consciousness and remained lodged there for ages.
Does this happen to you? Describe for me adverts that you love, hate, remember from about ten years ago. Youtube links are great, but even better when accompanied by a brief description. (Don't ask me why. They just are.) And tell me why! I'd like to know.
The first advert I remember having a big effect on me was actually part of an electoral campaign. (I think it was the 1997 election, but now that I've said that it'll probably turn out that there was no election in 1997. Anyway, I was pretty young.) The Conservative party put up anti-Labour posters everywhere - Labour had been campaigning under a slogan about "New Labour", and so the Tories ran a campaign against it with stuff like "New Labour, New Danger". I can't really remember exactly what they looked like - I think one was a picture of a lion that'd been torn in half, with a red tear running down its face. Miss Adam informs me that upside-down eyes were involved. There was one with the slogan "New Labour, No Britain" which was just a blank Union Jack. They terrified me. There was one of the lion ones outside our local shopping mall's car park - I used to duck down when we drove past it. (Hey, I was only seven, I didn't understand the politics.)
Other ones...adverts probably freak me out more than they should ^^; There used to be one for Schnapps which parodied a nursery rhyme. "Beware the Judderman, my dear, when the moon is fat..." The Judderman was just a really skinny animated figure; he gave the actor in the advert a bottle of Schnapps which turned him into a puppet, and then danced him around a bit. I was about ten or eleven, I think. I couldn't understand why anyone would buy a drink that did that to you.
What else? The Think! adverts! They're still about, aren't they? I can't stand them. When the remote control for my radio still worked and I still actually listened to the radio, I fell asleep next to it one night and ended up turning it on just as one of the "are you sleeping in your car? THEN YOU WILL DIE, YOU FOOL" ones came on. I just lay there for a while thinking "...but...I don't even drive..." They're the bane of going to the cinema, those adverts. *shudder* Loosely connected to those are the ones designed to frighten you into testing your smoke alarm and putting out cigarettes before you go to sleep. And the anti-smoking ones which are just a lot of heavy breathing. And the anti-drinking ones which caution you against jumping off buildings whilst smashed...
The Cadbury's adverts for now just confuse me. The drumming gorilla one was rather sweet, although I don't see how it relates to chocolate. Zoe hates the new one with the aeroplanes; I find it funny, and I don't know why. And they've brought back the old one for Maynard's wine gums, which fucks with my head. It annoys me, but in a sort of affectionate way.
The Berocca one also confuses me, and I don't know why.
The tagline is "You - but on a really good day". The advert involves people dancing on treadmills. I don't see how that's me n a really good day. I mean, dancing on a treadmill would probably be a lot of fun, but it's not what I associate with a really good day. I wouldn't come home and go "oh, I had the best day today! I finally got to dance on a treadmill!"
...Or maybe I would. Anyway. I enjoy the music for that ad, to be fair. (My dad pointed out to me this morning that the dancing on treadmills thing is probably a metaphor for enjoying yourself at work. It seems plausible enough. BUT I'M STILL CONFUSED.
So! This post in summary: UK residents, tell me which adverts you like! Residents of Not The UK...tell me what the advertising over there's like, and which ones you particularly love or hate!
Just for the record, I have absolutely no idea what brought this on.
Thank you.
Alright then, friendslist, talk to me about adverts.
I'm not entirely sure why this interests me; I've always found myself a tad unnerved by the effect publicity can have on me. I mean, I've never really been inspired by an advert alone to rush out and buy something, but there've been posters or TV/radio ads that've wormed their way into my consciousness and remained lodged there for ages.
Does this happen to you? Describe for me adverts that you love, hate, remember from about ten years ago. Youtube links are great, but even better when accompanied by a brief description. (Don't ask me why. They just are.) And tell me why! I'd like to know.
The first advert I remember having a big effect on me was actually part of an electoral campaign. (I think it was the 1997 election, but now that I've said that it'll probably turn out that there was no election in 1997. Anyway, I was pretty young.) The Conservative party put up anti-Labour posters everywhere - Labour had been campaigning under a slogan about "New Labour", and so the Tories ran a campaign against it with stuff like "New Labour, New Danger". I can't really remember exactly what they looked like - I think one was a picture of a lion that'd been torn in half, with a red tear running down its face. Miss Adam informs me that upside-down eyes were involved. There was one with the slogan "New Labour, No Britain" which was just a blank Union Jack. They terrified me. There was one of the lion ones outside our local shopping mall's car park - I used to duck down when we drove past it. (Hey, I was only seven, I didn't understand the politics.)
Other ones...adverts probably freak me out more than they should ^^; There used to be one for Schnapps which parodied a nursery rhyme. "Beware the Judderman, my dear, when the moon is fat..." The Judderman was just a really skinny animated figure; he gave the actor in the advert a bottle of Schnapps which turned him into a puppet, and then danced him around a bit. I was about ten or eleven, I think. I couldn't understand why anyone would buy a drink that did that to you.
What else? The Think! adverts! They're still about, aren't they? I can't stand them. When the remote control for my radio still worked and I still actually listened to the radio, I fell asleep next to it one night and ended up turning it on just as one of the "are you sleeping in your car? THEN YOU WILL DIE, YOU FOOL" ones came on. I just lay there for a while thinking "...but...I don't even drive..." They're the bane of going to the cinema, those adverts. *shudder* Loosely connected to those are the ones designed to frighten you into testing your smoke alarm and putting out cigarettes before you go to sleep. And the anti-smoking ones which are just a lot of heavy breathing. And the anti-drinking ones which caution you against jumping off buildings whilst smashed...
The Cadbury's adverts for now just confuse me. The drumming gorilla one was rather sweet, although I don't see how it relates to chocolate. Zoe hates the new one with the aeroplanes; I find it funny, and I don't know why. And they've brought back the old one for Maynard's wine gums, which fucks with my head. It annoys me, but in a sort of affectionate way.
The Berocca one also confuses me, and I don't know why.
The tagline is "You - but on a really good day". The advert involves people dancing on treadmills. I don't see how that's me n a really good day. I mean, dancing on a treadmill would probably be a lot of fun, but it's not what I associate with a really good day. I wouldn't come home and go "oh, I had the best day today! I finally got to dance on a treadmill!"
...Or maybe I would. Anyway. I enjoy the music for that ad, to be fair. (My dad pointed out to me this morning that the dancing on treadmills thing is probably a metaphor for enjoying yourself at work. It seems plausible enough. BUT I'M STILL CONFUSED.
So! This post in summary: UK residents, tell me which adverts you like! Residents of Not The UK...tell me what the advertising over there's like, and which ones you particularly love or hate!
Just for the record, I have absolutely no idea what brought this on.
Thank you.
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Date: 2008-04-23 09:21 pm (UTC)Ooh, speaking of annoying ads, pray that Head-On (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is3icfcbmbs) is never marketed in the UK. It's the most irritating thing I've never seen.