Wednesday, June 27, 2007

I wonder if you recall this recent ad on Nokia's latest phone offering.

It goes something like this.

"Sometimes it's about the song and you. Sometimes, it's about the song, you, and the people around you."

Then an irritating volley of poppycock music blasts through your tv speakers with a girl singing something in almost inaudible, suspiciously anti-social language.

I haven't got the actual advertisement on television, but here's a retarded version on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psDvBu-obTo

After straining my ears to the original version on tv, I could at least make out what the girl was singing.

"Ali Baba had a piece of underwear that ran away and now he dunno where it's going and he dunno where it is."

Following which comes, with some compulsion from the fact that it's already a lame advertisement they're in, the actors in the ad start dancing around like... idiots.

And the songs celebrates that idiocy.

"Ho!! Hey!! Ho Hey!! Ho!! Hey!!"
"Frankly, I think this is cliche."

You've got prancing girls, a pair of homemade dancers consisting of an afro-intrapersonal-insecure guy and a physically-less sculptured guy who nevertheless does his best to express himself, never mind how the people on the other side of the tv screen think.

Then you've got the epic reason why shoe shops are always so empty, with the workers and salespersons shaking and vibrating inside the storeroom, and there's this guy who happens to be physically-less-sculptured, worrying over the vibrations in his male boobs.

I've got quite enough of this nonsense. Really. 24 times a day over 12 hours of national tv which means it airs twice each hour. As if that's not beginning to make me sick and disgusted,




I find myself already singing it in my bathroom.

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