Wild side too wild?
If there's one thing that really shits me it's ads taking well known songs and using them out of context.
Case in point - this new HP ad which uses a bastardisation of Lou Reed's Walk on the wild side.
Here's some snippets from the song's original lyrics.
"Shaved her legs and then he was a she"
"But she never lost her head, even when she was giving head"
"Then I guess she had to crash, Valium would have helped that bash"
Don't get me wrong. I'm not criticising the song. In fact I've loved it since I was a kid.
But why oh why would Hewlett Packard want to associate their family friendly brand with the kind of imagery that Walk on the wild side brings so vividly to life?
posted by Stan Lee at 4:38 am
2 Comments:
Couldn't agree more. The lyrics also sound like they were written for a high school assignment. For all the neat tech that is in the ad there's no assignment. It feels forced.
Though, the tweet window that takes up the entire screen make me laugh every single time.
Just a song that spoke to you as a kid, tweaked to be family friendly because they suppose you're probably on the track towards domestic bliss.
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