What do you think of this commercial?
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I watched the entire thing and I have no clue what they were selling
That would be a sign of failure imo
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I'm a sucker for good costume, hair & makeup
But $22 for a comb?
https://www.bergdorfgoodman.com/search.jsp?N=0&Ntt=ghd&q=ghd
Maybe their prices aren't so out of line...ladies? https://www.ghdhair.com/us
Huh!
I had no idea that was about combs
They sure spent a ton of money to sell a stupid comb
About 1:40 to 2:00 is where the product, a curling or flat iron of some sort is featured. It's almost 3 minutes long so I'm guessing it's an extended version of a standard length ad that may have gotten right to the point. I think as a stand alone ad, it fails because a lot of people will lose interest before it gets to the point. The first time I completely missed it too because I tried to jump to the end. It wasn't til I rewatched that I saw the product.
EDIT to add that as a dude with short hair I'm clearly not the target audience so not sure I'm the most qualified to deem it a failure.
Over my head...it seemed like a music video actually
shareis that an ad for hair straighteners?
my main take-away from it is that i once again notice just how so many modern rock songs sound frozen in time.
it really feels to me like most pop music really hasn't moved at all in the last 20 years, & i think it's interesting to speculate on why that is.
certainly you can play a song from the 60s or 70s or 80s & you can tell fairly easily what era it's from. you can tell an early 70s song from a late 70s song.
but that song used in that ad could have been recorded in the 90s or the oughts or this decade.
could anyone really tell? maybe a more discerning ear could, but i can't.
i thought the girl in the ad was very very very attractive.
besides that, i haven't much to add.
I agree about the girl. I guess newer music from the 90s and later hasn't found it's identity yet?
shareregarding music, it's a big topic, bigger than i'm probably willing to take on tonight in any meaningful way.
but i do think that there is something to the idea that digital distribution & improved info tech in general has had a real dampening on innovation in some areas. i think that applies to movies, & i definitely think that has killed innovation in music.
there are layers of complexity to this, i guess, but on the simplest level i do think that there simply isn't the market for innovation anymore, in that there is almost certainly no reward in being daring or iconoclastic. that's a simplification i'm sure, because there have always been & always will be people on the edges who are willing to starve in order to create. but the fact that markets for creating new, bold music simply don't exist anymore surely must have had a dampening effect on the need to drive & innovate.
I'm sorry, but you have to be deaf not to hear a difference between pop music from the 90s and pop music from the last 10 years. Today it's just some weird electronic mishmash.
sharethat may be the case for some pop styles.
but i think it's almost certainly the case that when it comes to alternative/modern rock styles, the sound has been incredibly stagnate.
take jagged little pill for example. you could play any given track off that album, and it wouldn't sound jarringly out of style on a radio station that played modern rock. that record is over 20 years old.
you certainly wouldn't be able to say such a thing about a record from the 70s or 60s being played in the 90s.
even in alt-rock circles, it really seems to me time has stood still. how many bands seem to take their template from my bloody valentine's loveless, for example. i still occasionally get out to clubs even though i'm a tired old man, & i'm constantly amazed at how many bands sound like they're mimicking that exact sound.
Even Alanis sang more clear than the weird mumbling that goes on in almost every song these days. Retro sound is very popular at the moment, but there are still dead giveaways. The particular singer does a weird frog-like throat thing you wouldn't have heard back in the 90s.
shareThat was pretty crap. I already lost interest after 2 seconds. Also, what was it an ad for?
Now the Levi's ads from the 80s and 90s, those were great.
I enjoyed it! They're selling GHD curling iron. Ads like those are either fashion-related or perfume/cologne.
shareI was half expecting the Ferrero Rocher guy to appear: -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMlP_Moo0bE