Hail to the Chaff
With Monday, February 19, Presidents' Day, General Motors is running a series of advertisements that are, as you might imagine, annoying the crap out of me for both content and their frequency of appearance over these last few days.
The commercials, used for every line of GM vehicles, feature photographs, paintings and other forms of artwork portraying presidents, while GM vehicles drive in front of them and, the most aggravating part, the soundtrack is an intrumental hip hop version of "Hail to the Chief." After I plug up my ears, I want to take these ads and bury them in the backyard with Walker Evans' dog crap.
I know that the U.S. seems as close to an actual capitalistic society as is possible, but remember, our form of government is democratic, as in a democratic republic, or at least the best version of this money can buy too many times, particularly in federal and state levels.
The commercials, used for every line of GM vehicles, feature photographs, paintings and other forms of artwork portraying presidents, while GM vehicles drive in front of them and, the most aggravating part, the soundtrack is an intrumental hip hop version of "Hail to the Chief." After I plug up my ears, I want to take these ads and bury them in the backyard with Walker Evans' dog crap.
I know that the U.S. seems as close to an actual capitalistic society as is possible, but remember, our form of government is democratic, as in a democratic republic, or at least the best version of this money can buy too many times, particularly in federal and state levels.
posted by Kevin J. Hosey at 10:54 PM
4 Comments:
Kevin, I was going to do a post about this today. I counted 6-8 of these annoying commercials an hour. And this was on all the local channels!
Thank God the sale is over today.
Can you freakin' believe it!!!?!?!
They extended the damn sale until 2/28... argh.
Ha; I was just going to write a new entry on GM extending this sale and aural punishment, Mike. Is there any way they can play these commercials more?
Please don't let me be jinxed for asking.
I am really getting fed up with this negative advertising where they KNOW they're going to annoy the hell out of you: "HUGE!", "Head on, apply directly to the forehead" etc.
It's not like the old subliminal messages... would it be liminal?! ;)
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