To really hate the spoken word nationwide ads

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Love spoken word. HATE the ads. Awful and seem to be everywhere I go. AIBU?

YABU I love them and I love Nationwide

Are they meant to be poems? Because (apart from the man roller skating talking about his sons) to me they don't fit any poem type structure even though the actors seem to think they do.

Irritates me quite a lot when they come on the tv. A lot.

I hate them too. They totally make my shit itch.

I think the poetry is really bad. They remind me of this poem.

YANBU

They are really bad.

I hate them.
Cringing at Our Future! Where did you find that? Look how long the first line of the last verse is!

Yanbu. The scanning doesn't work which makes my ears scratchy and they are all so twee.

I love Spoken Word.
I don't watch ads, any ads. But I like the work of Joy France and Matt Abbott, and they're on Nationwide ads.

Yes I like spoken word but these ads are so smug and holier than thou. Ugh!

YANBU

I love spoken word too, but those ads are really bad. Like the kind of thing you write in an English class when you're twelve.

I think they are okay. I kind of like the idea of people having a bit of a bash at poetry and expressing themselves. I mean it's not amazing stuff but it's okay.

They are a bit like rap aren't they? Rap by middle aged white people.

Rap by middle aged white people.
That's going to make me laugh every time I'm at a spoken word night. If people enjoy it - leave them to it.

Perhaps you'll prefer this. I really don't like it at all. But that's fine, other people love it.

YANBU

The poetry is terrible and the delivery is even worse.

YANBU, they sound really clunky and awkward to me.

I have to switch the channel over when it comes on, its so grating on the brain.

I go to a writers group. We sometimes have a bash at a bit of poetry. Mostly it doesn't quite hit the mark, similar to the Nationwide ads. I think poetry should be for everyone, so I guess that's why I think they're okay.

I heard one in the radio. It was a woman talking about putting a cardboard cutout of her son at the dinner table. I thought it was for a mental health charity at first. Now I feel mean whenever I hear it because I'm sure the woman is lovely.

YANBU - my DH swears at the tv when they come on!

The people performing them on the ads are the actual poets.
I work for nationwide, there was a big event at the beginning of the year for all the staff and the poets were there writing and performing personal poems for individuals.

Not my bag at all.

YANBU theyre dreadful.

And the one with the teenager who talks about her keys being attached to her bag and stupidly thinks she wont misplace them now clearly hasn't met any of my dc. Ive bought half the counties supply of bags over the years after my dc have forgotten where they had the bag last or they had it in pe they think or maybe in spanish

YANBU
They're awfully dramatic adverts. Half of what is being said makes no sense.

To be fair I never really like adverts though.

Now I know they are the poets themselves it doesn't seem half so bad, there's actual meaning behind the words. I just thought it was excruciating delivery of half-assed advertising agency scripted twattishness.