Here's a commercial, sorry, advert, making the rounds this week for, I'm guessing, some sort of British store or other. It's set to Slow Moving Millie's cover of The Smiths classic "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want." I have to admit I was watching it and thinking the whole time "this anxious little shit is everything that is wrong with our consumer-obsessed culture, and I hope he gets a giant lump of coal." Would probably be a lot more thematically consistent with the Morrissey-vibes of the song anyway, right? But the twist ending, well, gosh-darned if it didn't warm my soul. It's not my own material possessions I should be thinking about this holiday season, it's family's. I really need to go buy more shit.
Couple of things to keep in mind when you jump over to YouTube to watch it.
1) Are you amazed, but not really, that like every other video in existence, the comments on this one somehow, against all odds, turn this commercial into an argument about racism.
2) DID THE SMITHS TOTALLY SELL OUT BY LICENSING THIS SONG FOR AN ADVERT? ESPECIALLY TO A COMPANY THAT ALSO TRAFFICS IN MURDER (via fur/meat). CAN YOU EVER LISTEN TO THE SMITHS THE SAME WAY AGAIN?
3) Do the people who made this commercial and the ones who are watching it realize that what Mozzer really, really wanted, for the first time, was a hard cock? Probably.
4) Is this comment on the video the stupidest thing you've ever read? "Did Morrisey ask John Lewis if the family in the commercial was White before he agreed his song was used for it. He famously said English identity was being lost through immigration - i wonder if he would have agreed the use of his song if John Lewis had cast a black family instead?"
5) How about this quote from Bill Hicks: "If you do a commercial, you’re off the artistic roll call FOREVER. Every word you say becomes suspect. Every word you say is like a turd falling from your mouth into my drink.”
6) Were you surprised by the M.Night Shyamalan ending? What the boy a ghost the whole time?
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9 comments:
Is that store a hamburger factory or some shit? What's the big deal?
Think the parent company has a grocery chain that also sells lots of meat. F U MORRISSEY
I liked the ad as I'm a big flamer for altruism at Christmas, being a better dude, all that.
Shit got to me defo.
I am surprised that Mozzer would sell out like this though.
I don't particularly care, I just expected he'd do a better disguise-job of being a money-grabbing deluded old has-been.
The people who think Morrissey mattered after 1987 must be fucking furious.
GET OFF MY INTERNET WITH THAT MORRISSEY SHIT TALKING!!
Johnny Marr just slagged off the people bitching about this because they saw the ad while they were wtaching the X Factor
tough call on this one though. bill hicks has a point, and this shit didn't fly in my day 9the 90s). can't see mozzer and marr really needing the dough, which is why you'd forgive most people for licensing their song in such a manner. but then the whole "fuck you, that money's better off in my pocket than someone else's" line of reasoning kicks in too.
Ha, Johnny being DEFENSIVE.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/20/christmas-adverts-john-lewis
Charlie Brooker's dog's-head-in-the-box theory.
heh heh good stuff.
Is this really what we've become – a species that weeps at adverts for shops? A commercial has only made me feel genuinely sad on one occasion – 25 January 1990, when a falling billboard nearly killed 'Allo 'Allo star Gorden Kaye.
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