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Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2009 10.39
by Gavin Scott
cdd wrote:I don't understand why he takes so long to overtake the van with the sheep though, considering the speed he approaches it.
That's the kind of thing Stevek would say.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2009 11.18
by Chie
lukey wrote:Are you so simple that you can only interpret the mere presence of arranged music as being depressing?
I give up.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2009 11.48
by Invent Meridian
nidave wrote:Chie wrote:
Anyway, while we're on the car adverts, the one I hate more than any other at the moment is this wanky load of rubbish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6uxSjuDF1A - every time it comes on I feel instantly depressed by that music. The whole advert is so slow and miserable.
that is a fantastic piece of music, very emotional- does anyone know if it was an original piece?
No it isn't, It is a bad rearrangement of 'Singing In The Rain'!
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2009 12.08
by nidave
The Southerner wrote:
No it isn't, It is a bad rearrangement of 'Singing In The Rain'!
seriously? I would never have guessed. Have to listen to it again once I get home.
I really like it though.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2009 12.10
by marksi
The Southerner wrote:nidave wrote:Chie wrote:
Anyway, while we're on the car adverts, the one I hate more than any other at the moment is this wanky load of rubbish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6uxSjuDF1A - every time it comes on I feel instantly depressed by that music. The whole advert is so slow and miserable.
that is a fantastic piece of music, very emotional- does anyone know if it was an original piece?
No it isn't, It is a bad rearrangement of 'Singing In The Rain'!
If it is a "re-arrangement" it is only in the sense that all music is a re-arrangement of the same limited number of notes.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2009 12.40
by Gavin Scott
The Southerner wrote:nidave wrote:Chie wrote:
Anyway, while we're on the car adverts, the one I hate more than any other at the moment is this wanky load of rubbish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6uxSjuDF1A - every time it comes on I feel instantly depressed by that music. The whole advert is so slow and miserable.
that is a fantastic piece of music, very emotional- does anyone know if it was an original piece?
No it isn't, It is a bad rearrangement of 'Singing In The Rain'!
I'm afraid it isn't. I have the whole score of that particular musical and there's no part of it which could be considered similar to this.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2009 15.37
by Invent Meridian
Gavin Scott wrote:I'm afraid it isn't. I have the whole score of that particular musical and there's no part of it which could be considered similar to this.
Call me crazy but if you compare the famous 'Singin' In The Rain' song itself to the Ford advert you can clearly hear the similarities. Do-Do Do-Do etc.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2009 15.57
by cdd
Only 5 posts, but you're definitely the forum's new source of wrongness and misinformation!

Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2009 16.16
by Gavin Scott
The Southerner wrote:Gavin Scott wrote:I'm afraid it isn't. I have the whole score of that particular musical and there's no part of it which could be considered similar to this.
Call me crazy but if you compare the famous 'Singin' In The Rain' song itself to the Ford advert you can clearly hear the similarities. Do-Do Do-Do etc.
I listened again. I see what you're referring to, but other than a structure of notes its not the same, and the counterpoint to it is entirely different.
By no means as a crazy a suggestion as I initially thought, but as Roy Walker would say, "its good but its not right".
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2009 19.47
by Alexia
I too must voice my dislike of the Ford-car-as-musical-instruments adverts, both this one and the one before.
Re: Adverts which irritate and entertain
Posted: Mon 17 Aug, 2009 21.12
by wells
lukey wrote:Are you so simple that you can only interpret the mere presence of arranged music as being depressing?
What a vile thing to say! But I wouldn't expect anything less from you. :roll: