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Slowed down versions of songs in adverts....make it stop!

33 replies

shadypines · 15/07/2020 15:05

Enough is enough, The Proclaimers brilliant 500 miles painfully drawn out and murdered for a viagra advert.Just no! This is a rousing foot stomping anthem, I can't t take anymore of this awful advertising cliche. Make.It.Stop.

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MonsteraDeliciosa · 15/07/2020 16:12

Whilst I haven't seen or heard the aberration you mention (thankfully - it does sound awful) I do agree.
There are all those breathy, little girl style versions of songs on adverts, too. Who the hell likes this stuff? It's bloody awful.

HerGrapeness · 15/07/2020 16:41

God, I saw one the other night that had a slow breathy version of Born to be Wild. The world's gone mad Confused

KizzyWayfarer · 15/07/2020 16:43

I waant tooo beeee the one whooo waaakes up next too yooooo.

BeBraveAndBeKind · 15/07/2020 17:07

DS2 gets irrate about adverts where they take a famous song but put new advertising lyrics to it i.e. Flash kitchen cleaner and Bold (instead of Gold).

HerBigChance · 15/07/2020 17:14

Haven't heard it yet, but does it follow a well-worn recent path of songs being "Little Girlified", with tedious breathy bits? Can't be doing with it, myself.

Mojitoonthebeach · 15/07/2020 17:28

Completely agree! Drives me insane.

Why has it become so popular?

What I find even more annoying are those Aldi ads with the families getting ridiculously over excited over every meal - stamping their feet in anticipation, dancing around the kitchen 🙄 and also talking about weekly shops, as though they're a new phenomenon since lockdown! Hmm

ThursdayLastWeek · 15/07/2020 17:29

Hear hear.

ThursdayLastWeek · 15/07/2020 17:29

I blame John Lewis

GellerYeller · 15/07/2020 17:36

We call it John Lewis syndrome too. With all due respect to Lily Allen I've never forgiven her abysmal rendering of Keane. Who, I appreciate, are not to everyone's taste (based on a straw poll of my colleagues)!

ComDummings · 15/07/2020 17:37

Normally they kill songs by taking a classic and having a young woman feebly whisper the song as if she’s struggling to take a breath. Awful.

OooErrThor · 15/07/2020 17:41

We like to guess what the advert is advertising hours fly by at our house, teenagers singing away to the painfully slow Proclaimers song - their faces when it was for Viagra were hilarious!

We guessed it was an advert for a mattress or bed Wink

Pelleas · 15/07/2020 17:45

Oh, yes, these are awful. It's not only that they're slowed down, but the singer has to sound as though they're gasping their dying breath as they croak the words out.

Pelleas · 15/07/2020 17:46

i.e. Flash kitchen cleaner

I have to admit I like the current Flash advert, but that's because I rather fancy 'Dave'. Blush

Willow2017 · 15/07/2020 17:46

@shadypines

Enough is enough, The Proclaimers brilliant 500 miles painfully drawn out and murdered for a viagra advert.Just no! This is a rousing foot stomping anthem, I can't t take anymore of this awful advertising cliche. Make.It.Stop.
Saw this last night just wtf are they thinking? Its awful.
homemadecommunistrussia · 15/07/2020 17:48

You have obviously been evesdropping on mine and dh's private conversations!!
The worst was Melt With You by Modern English; a personal favourite destroyed for an advert.Sad

Willow2017 · 15/07/2020 17:48

Yep all the other adverts which have bastardised the words of a damm good song, just stop!

twilightcafe · 15/07/2020 17:49

They've given this treatment to Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
I mean, just what is the point of doing this?

whatshebininagain · 15/07/2020 18:02

@Pelleas

i.e. Flash kitchen cleaner

I have to admit I like the current Flash advert, but that's because I rather fancy 'Dave'. Blush

Isn't "Dave" the dodgy toe-sucking vicar from Poldark?
Pelleas · 15/07/2020 18:06

Oooh, I don't know. I haven't seen Poldark. Perhaps a reason to add it to my 'to watch' list. If a 'dodgy toe-sucking vicar' were not reason enough on its own ...

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shadypines · 15/07/2020 21:35

Glad it's not just me that's suffering then Wink.

I'll start with you whatsshebininagain, reading your image of the toe sucking vicar ..I could do with some eye bleach never mind Flash Grin.

OooErrThor agree thought it was for mattresses, expected a hippo and a duckling to appear any minute!

Pelleas .....It's not only that they're slowed down, but the singer has to sound as though they're gasping their dying breath as they croak the words out. Exactly. I presume somebody somewhere has got a degree in music/media/or something similar to produce such utter shite?

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shadypines · 15/07/2020 21:36

It's nice to know Craig and Charlie are earning a bob or two though.

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AlecTrevelyan006 · 15/07/2020 21:36

@HerGrapeness

God, I saw one the other night that had a slow breathy version of Born to be Wild. The world's gone mad Confused
Aarrrggghhhh!!! I heard this the other day and it made me feel like my putting my foot through the telly!!!!!!

For the love of God NO!!!

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shadypines · 15/07/2020 21:39

Nevermind the proverbial sound of 'gnashing and grinding of teeth' in Hell, no, I think I would hear all the songs mentioned on here!

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DotDotDotty · 15/07/2020 22:57

The advert for The Last of Us 2. Such an earworm.

MustDust · 15/07/2020 23:02

Ah, glad I'm not the only one who gets the rage and instantly blames John Lewis.