John Lewis advert

[Raahh]

Posted on the X Factor thread, but it is so lovely, it deserves a thread of it's own.

And in case you are wondering who the singer is, and how Morrissey could have agreed to such a thing-

article here

Can you buy a severed head at John Lewis even?

Some people are never happy

As with the Littlewoods advert, no-one is going to force anyone to watch it

It probably is about money for Mozzer, but I doubt he would have allowed the cover to go ahead if he thought it was shit enough to ruin his reputation. (The majority watching won't even know it is a Smiths cover, anyway).

I sold him a copy of 'Never mind the Bollocks' once, on cassette. He was very nice.

you can buy buddha heads at John Lewis, don't know about severed heads.

"Can you buy a severed head at John Lewis even?"
Only on the butchers counter at Waitrose.

Ooh good I fancied a change from turkey and all the trimmings Raahh

i bought a Barbie styling head from JL- it does look quite sinister, actually

Take it back. Don't like the ad. That girl's voice is annoying and neuters the song.

And the lyrics don't fit - 'seems the life I've had/would make a good man turn bad' about a little boy?

But JL didn't let unsuitable lyrics stop them with the Always A Woman To Me ad.

snigger at the butcher's counter in Waitrose.

The shining reference is where is bouncing the ball off the wall. se7en is the severed head in the box and the Omen might be the bit on the swing but I'm not sure.

I wonder if ist the head of the dog that was left out in the cold in last years advert?

The whole ad has a seventies feel and the lighting makes everything look a bit bleak IMHO.

Thanks.

I wasn't troubled by the dog left out in the cold. That probably makes me a bad person.

The dog left out in the cold made me cry more than the awful cover version in this one - mind you I don't think you can improve on perfection so think that Smoths song shouldn't be allowed

I didn't get the hoo-haa about the dog, really. But some people will get offended by anything, i have found.

Quite a nice advert, but am getting a little fed up of these 'girl with whiney/haunting voice does version of well-known song with just a piano' stuff. It's everywhere.

Love the original of that song.

The same ad got complaints at the bit where you see the parents putting stuff in the loft.

Ruined the santa myth for all the adults children watching. Bet most kids didn't even watch the advert!

limitedperiodonly - what other songs do I always think of as lovely nice happy songs but are actually about heroin? I'm almost as flabbergasted as I was when I realised that that song I always warbled along to was about a 'raspberry beret' of all things.

I agree about the use of the breathy singer- it's the 3rd year in a row they have. The year before, they used their own choir, which was actually very good.

. The Twinings ad is just as bad.

Golden Brown is normally cited as a Great Song What Is Actually About Smack. Night in White Satin OTOH is about getting pissed.

I loved the original version of 'wherever you may go'- the cover and the original have done quite well off the back of the ad, though (and being murdered by Sophie Habeeeeebeeees on X Factor) Actually, that second bit may not have helped...

Loads on Google.

The one I really like is James Taylor's Fire and Rain - I didn't connect it - I thought it was a hippy song about the end of a love affair.

And the Las (sp)There She Goes is too apparently.

Someone droned on at me that Zoom by Fat Larry's band was about heroin too. I wasn't convinced. I think his love for smack was clouding his judgement and not just about song lyrics.

But then everything's supposed to be about drugs or being gay. Why can't we just have innocent songs like My Ding A Ling?

pmsl @'my ding a ling'

Bouncing the ball off the wall is the Great Escape, surely?

Cant see how that would have cost £5m though It's an OK ad, cute but nothing special.

The boy is utterly fabulous in it though.

He is lovely