December 5, 2004
chanel soap grabbing
Well, this is quite funny:
Recently I panned the new Chanel No. 5 commercial:
It was corny, it was clich9 Responses to “chanel soap grabbing”
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Maybe the anonymous poster is a random Australian director.
Could be. I’m now #2 Google search for “Chanel No 5″.
Heh.
maybe anon is a buzz agent?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/05/magazine/05BUZZ.html/
i agree with you, it was a pile of shit. What made it worse for me, is that when i saw it the first time, it was in the middle of “Moulin Rouge”. Which i love, which is a marvellous film. And i was horrified that he had sunk so low as to attempt to reproduce the same film, at a much lower quality, for a fucking commerical!!!!! Let’s just say my estimation of Mr Lurhmann, fell to the hell.
I hate that Chanel commercial too.
A while ago I criticized a Pepto Bismol commercial and I received a comment months later praising the commercial. When I searched the IP address it turned out the comment came from someone at Proctor and Gamble, the company that owns Pepto Bismol. Perhaps your comment was from an undercover Chanel agent.
Here is the post:
http://www.standard-deviance.com/archives/2004/06/23/when-youre-sliding-into-first-and-you-feel-like-youre-gonna-burst/
Right.
The advert sucked, and looked like a chopped down version of “Moulin Rouge.” Who was I supposed to be sympathetic with? The gay guy (or least metrosexual) who was trying to be sultry, but just looked like a sulky art student, or Nicole Kidman, who was wandering around in a taxi in a feathered nightdress. Wow, that’s an experience I aspire to for me and my beloved.
I mean, who did they want to inspire with this, it just looked like a load of corporate cock tugging.
Also, Chanel 5 is a really heavy perfume, I cannot smell it without thinking of old ladies. Now, that might pop somebody’s cork, but not mine. (eh, ask me in thirty years and I might feel differently…)
Now, if they had paraded Nicole Kidman butt naked, and then advertised something that smelt like her, well, I would buy that, but I guess that’s not what’s on offer…
Question of no relevance. How much you you pay for the real smell of a famous film star. (Audrey Hepburn — Players Navy Cut with a hint of bulimic vomit, for instance…)
Hmmm. Time to go and hide in the cardboard bomb shelter again.
i have a friend who’s a double agent working behind enemy lines in the PR business, and he confirms that a lot of the big dinosaur firms do, in fact, pay people to scour the internet for any and all mentions, ever, of their product, even in the most miniscule, trivial, venal settings. the sad thing is that some of these employees may actually spend some of their lunch hour defending their clients in blog comments, even though their bosses never flat out “asked” them to troll on their behalf.
oh what a piece of work is man…
Pretty clear, huh ?
Either admire it, or ignore it, do not make absurd comparisons between the world of luxury and the world that is exemplified by fragrance you buy from the drug store
Fit in or fuck off, said with gleaming white teeth and upper lip pulled back into a discreet and charming snarl.
‘the world of luxury’…Do we need to hold our pinky at a rakish angle while uttering those words?