I know so many of you (read: 2 people) were clamoring for a live blog during the super bowl yesterday, but my distaste in pretty much 98% of the commercials would have been an overload of work for me that I probably would have missed the entire game. Instead, I'll go through all the commercials on youtube and pick out the ones that irritated me the most. I'm hoping to keep that number under 20 commercials but we'll see...and we're off!
This spot left me asking one thing: "why?" Why do you need to see Adrien Brody singing to want to buy Stella Artois? Why do we only see the beer on like 3 occasions? Why is he singing in Frenglish? (Engrench? You get the point, let's move on). Why does Stella think some guy who is ignoring every woman in the bar is a good spokesman for their beer? Why have I never tried Stella before when it appears to be kind of popular? And why oh why did this commercial have to be 60 seconds?! Someone please tell me why this commercial has a better message by being 60 seconds instead of 30 seconds...So we can hear more near incomprehensible singing with about 6 total seconds of the beer being on screen? Stella could have given me the $3 million they spent for that extra 30 seconds and the commercial would have been no less "successful."
Wow, saying something inappropriate in a work email and hitting "reply all?" That's awful! You would definitely be fired! Stealing co-workers' laptops and phones? Naw, you'd probably just get a slap on the wrist for that.
According to USA Today, this was the best commercial of the super bowl. I'm not gonna say it was a terrible commercial, but it was pretty pedestrian. It's a sad state of affairs when this commercial is considered "the best" by the public...this is really the best we can do? To make matters even worse, the commercial was made by a "31-year-old part-time designer of websites for kids." So all the companies in America spend the most time and money to put together what they consider to be their strongest commercials of the year and they get beat by an amateur. That's embarrassing.
This was definitely the dumbest thing advertised yesterday. Has anyone honestly ever thought to themselves "I wish my phone would read me my facebook news feed?" There's no way. Isn't having it on your cell phone enough? I'm pretty sure I would veer into oncoming traffic if my car if it was telling me things like "I'm so hungry. FML" and "Don't want to study lol" in a robotic voice.
There are so many other things wrong with this commercial. It seems like these two are perfect for each other because they're way too into using facebook and I'm not even talking about the fact that the guy owns a car that includes facebook. First off, why are they already facebook friends prior to their first date? I think that's a little premature. Then she immediately updates her facebook status after kissing him? If I'm this guy, I'm showing up to the next date an hour late and making her split the dinner check with me just because I can.
One last side note: I HATE people like Jennifer French who post status updates for the primary benefit of one person. Why do you need to share something with everyone that you really just want one person to see? JUST SEND HIM A FREAKING MESSAGE IF YOU WANT HIM TO KNOW.
That last one took a lot out of me...more to come later.
Censorship! Censorship! Censorship!
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