songs-from-commercials
Commercial-isms: JCPenney vs. Rosemary Clooney “On the First Warm Day”
It’s ten years ago this summer that jazz and pop singer Rosemary Clooney, (George’s dear aunt, and this dude’s mom) died of lung cancer at the age of 74. But a new JCPenney ad is making sure she’s not forgotten.
And like the retailer’s April ad featuring a little-known song by 60s teen pop star Lesley Gore (“Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows”), they’ve dug deep and come up with a lovely find – the […]
Commercial-isms: JCPenney vs. Lesley Gore “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows”
Attention all professional (and do-it-yourself) outraged social conservatives! JCPenney is now officially f*cking with you.
We all remember your impassioned pleas to the big-box retailer to drop their tacit endorsement of the homosexual agenda, embodied by their hiring of arch-lesbian Ellen DeGeneres to appear in a series of ads touting the chain’s revolutionary (giggle) new pricing scheme. Not only did they refuse to back down and give the job to someone more appropriate – like Elizabeth […]
Commercial-isms: T-Mobile vs. Laurie Anderson “O Superman”
I took it as further evidence of my exceptional parenting when my 17-year-old son perked up at the sound of Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman” coming across from the TV and pronounced “Awesome song!” In my head, I was congratulating myself: My son knows Laurie Anderson’s music! I am a good dad! I am a good dad! But this moment of parental pride was sullied when I realized that familiar “hah hah […]