Drippy female/male singing in adverts

Allthenameshavegone1972 · 2024-12-29T20:10:20+00:00

This trend has been going for a few years now. Drippy singing accompanied by acoustic guitar or piano, singing cover versions of big hits in adverts really make my ears bleed! They sound awful & are so depressing. If there's any advertising execs out there bring adverts like the old Cadurys adverts, Tetley teabag men, something a bit jollier & easier on the ears! If anything is guaranteed for me to mute the tv instead of take notice of the advert it's this. These adverts are the work of the devil..

NImumconfused · 20/02/2025 10:24

Also, (showing my age here) how baffling is the choice of OMD's Enola Gay for the Vitality health insurance ad? Sure, dropping nuclear bombs is exactly the concept you want to associate with protecting your health!?!?

Pussycat22 · 20/02/2025 10:15

Tomatina · 29/12/2024 20:14

Just mute all adverts. Sanity preserved.

Better still get rid of em all ! Hate hate hate the booking.com one and turn the radio off when the Wilson's carpet one comes airs , the one with the woman cackling throughout.!!

RaveToTheGrave1 · 19/02/2025 19:21

I've noticed the Traitors tv show is absolutely rife with it, every song is a weird, slow cover warbled along

The13thFairy · 30/12/2024 15:19

And I'll no longer have to listen to that Christmas ad with the Verve singing, "Yes, there's love if you wonnit, don't sound like a sonnet," which got me clenched every time I heard it. I left the room when I could.

Lucywithout · 30/12/2024 13:48

Not all bad! I have been enjoying the Specsavers punning ads and the AA one is hilariuos with bank robbers car in trouble. The rear of the Hourse! I wanted a divhorse! I cant see you anymore. Really funny unlike most comedy shows.

Floatlikeafeather2 · 30/12/2024 13:25

Popadomorbread · 30/12/2024 07:48

To be fair the actor in this is Joel Montague, very successful west end actor and currently in Hamilton. I don’t think it will do any harm and he will be playing it as directed!!

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You realise you've now made loads of people add Hamilton (or anything else with that bloke in) to their "what not to go to see" list. So it has damaged him.

WatcherWatch · 30/12/2024 13:13

I want to campaign to bring back Douglas the Lurpak man. Him sneakily playing his trumpet was brilliant!

DissidentDaughter · 30/12/2024 13:02

Oneearringlost · 30/12/2024 07:08

I find the Clive Anderson radio 4 programme, Loose Ends, always seems to feature a female singer singing drippily in the guise of 'new artist'. Not sure if he is trying to emulate the late, great John Peel, but his chosen artists are awful! Tuneless, quivering, nothingness.

The quality of that which passes as ‘singer/songwriter’ these days is shocking.
I’m genuinely puzzled when people can’t ‘hear’ the uninteresting mind and absence of personality behind the voice.

In the age of the internet, I think many people have fooled themselves that, hey, they too can ‘be a musician’, when all they’ll ever be is lightweight sh*te.

WatcherWatch · 30/12/2024 12:54

The one I think is the most ridiculous is the one with the slow version of No Limit. The fast version was a terrible song the first time round so who decided we needed a crappy slow version??

RockItLikeRocketFuel · 30/12/2024 12:47

MyUmberSeal · 30/12/2024 09:38

This advert makes my blood boil! It’s so wimpy, pathetic and over-acted. The woman who bought him the suit looks like she’s cherishing watching her first born son in his nativity and it’s just so naff. I heckle him from my living room when it comes on. Yuk.

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A bit off-point, but why would she need to buy him a jacket on Amazon anyway when the theatre's wardrobe department probably has at least one knocking about?

BrioNotBiro · 30/12/2024 12:43

getahhtmapub · 30/12/2024 05:01

@DissidentDaughter I imagine all the singers of these mournful fucked Jo songs are all wearing a 'vulnerable sleeve' while wheezing their way through a song.

See image for 'vulnerable sleeve'

Even the mug is knitted on that image!😴

KimberleyClark · 30/12/2024 12:29

Is anyone old enough to remember the Shredded Wheat advert with a warbling woman singing “there are two men in my life, to one I am a mother, to the other I’m a wife, and I give them both the best with Natural Shredded Wheat”?

lightsandtunnels · 30/12/2024 12:02

Popadomorbread · 30/12/2024 07:48

To be fair the actor in this is Joel Montague, very successful west end actor and currently in Hamilton. I don’t think it will do any harm and he will be playing it as directed!!

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Ah I don't know him. Of course, I thought he'd be playing as he was told - it's not usually the actors decision on stuff like this I guess? Hopefully it won't harm his future roles! Very cringe ad though.

DepartingRadish · 30/12/2024 11:03

Don't forget it's mandatory that vulnerable sleeve(s) must be accompanied by mug cradling.

Melodyfair · 30/12/2024 10:02

Violetparis · 30/12/2024 09:54

I always thought it was Mariella Frostrup doing these adverts.

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I’ve since been told it is, same difference though, just replace one with the other

Violetparis · 30/12/2024 09:54

Melodyfair · 29/12/2024 21:24

Every year I get angry at the impending douchebags that are going to take a great song, slow it down and just ruin it, they should be polite enough to offer the song some lipstick, so at least the song will look pretty when they FUCK IT!

Sorry il stay calm, its my issue, what’s wrong with a good old advert like trio, um bongo or Kelloggs all bran 🎶there tasty, tasty, very very tasty, there very tasty🎶

I know it’s not the same, but every Christmas there is a radio advert for fever tree that gives me the rage, Jenny Eclair reading a script that doesn’t quite rhyme, so she sort of forces it to in her irritating hung over 60 a day voice, sorry I’m sure she’s very lovely, it’s just the words!

I always thought it was Mariella Frostrup doing these adverts.

wholettheturnipsburn · 30/12/2024 09:51

Melodyfair · 29/12/2024 21:24

Every year I get angry at the impending douchebags that are going to take a great song, slow it down and just ruin it, they should be polite enough to offer the song some lipstick, so at least the song will look pretty when they FUCK IT!

Sorry il stay calm, its my issue, what’s wrong with a good old advert like trio, um bongo or Kelloggs all bran 🎶there tasty, tasty, very very tasty, there very tasty🎶

I know it’s not the same, but every Christmas there is a radio advert for fever tree that gives me the rage, Jenny Eclair reading a script that doesn’t quite rhyme, so she sort of forces it to in her irritating hung over 60 a day voice, sorry I’m sure she’s very lovely, it’s just the words!

Irritating hungover 60 a day voice!

Perfect thank you

I was trying to find a way to describe radio newsreader Katherine Cracknell and this is the perfect description

Jolietta · 30/12/2024 09:51

This is one of the worst songs I have ever heard. Maybe I knew the boy singing it in another life and we were mortal enemies as the moment I hear the line -

'Now I'm shaking, drinking all this coffee
These last few weeks have been exhausting'

Sung in a drippy, weedy voice it gives me instant rage.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jO2viLEW-1A

They use that line in adverts for game apps.

Pussycat22 · 30/12/2024 09:47

Hate hate hate radio ads!

wholettheturnipsburn · 30/12/2024 09:41

Or the very earnest reworded songs / looking at you Flash

Makes me cringe inside and out

MyUmberSeal · 30/12/2024 09:38

AngeloMysterioso · 29/12/2024 20:33

Don’t get me started on the Amazon one where they buy the janitor a tuxedo jacket (on Amazon?! What??) so that he can get on stage and warble one line of what the world needs now is love. 🤮

This advert makes my blood boil! It’s so wimpy, pathetic and over-acted. The woman who bought him the suit looks like she’s cherishing watching her first born son in his nativity and it’s just so naff. I heckle him from my living room when it comes on. Yuk.

ExpressCheckout · 30/12/2024 09:34

Dear TV and film actors and producers

Please don't whisper and mumble
Please don't drown out everything with constant music
Please don't make it necessary to turn on the subtitles

That's it. Thanks.

Melodyfair · 30/12/2024 09:10

Xanadu58 · 30/12/2024 05:50

It's Mariella Frostrup that does the Fevertree radio ads .

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Fair enough, same applies, just switch women. Jenny Eclair once joked she only ever got the voiceover work that Mariella Frostrup wasn’t available for!

NotBadConsidering · 30/12/2024 09:03

Totally stealing “breathy chanteuse” and “vulnerable sleeve” 🤣🤣

Newgreensofa · 30/12/2024 08:59

I completely agree with OP but I also thank you for bringing back the word “drippy”. Perfect description and shows our age 😂 When I see (hear) ads like these I comfort myself thinking they’re all conjured up by a bunch of Clem Fandango’s (Toast of London) and I never remember what they’re for anyway. Had to google vocal fry though 😂