It’s as if Sainsbury’s were so desperate to use Corden (as must all broadcasters, by law, in 2016) they crowbarred him into voicing the song, just so they could generate a few more column inches in The Daily Mail and Sun. The first thing to notice here is that James Corden is singing – singing – this quite dreadful song. 2016 Christmas Adverts Argos Christmas Advertīonus points for the soundtrack – but a load of multicoloured skating yeti? It’s pretty striking I guess but, as ever with Argos adverts, it can’t help but say ‘expensive’ and ‘cheap’ at the same time. These are the ones that caught my eye this time around: the best, the worst, the most sickeningly awful.
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It’s one of the prevailing modern mysteries that people rail against experts, elites and the European Union while adverts for massive multinational companies get a free pass, because LOL. They’re just one of the nicer-looking cogs in the system everyone apparently despises. They’re not harmless and they’re not just a bit of fun. Send me the ghosts of Victor Kiam, PG Tips chimps and Barry Scott – there’ll no no Christmas spirit for me where Christmas ads are concerned.
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No gurgling at the latest John Lewis mood music. At a time when John Carpenter’s iconic 80s sci-fi/action film They Live! is gaining traction as a meme I’m here to remind you that Christmas adverts are there to convince you to consume more, conform more, buy more – and burn the whole fucking planet in the meantime. Snowmen and buying your loved on a woolly jumper and gorging yourself all the way to Type-II Diabetes.
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Suffice it to say that they needed to explain their advert, which either suggests an overcomplicated advert or a very stupid target audience.Īww, Christmas adverts. I say: I’m as immune to the supposed charms of anthropomorphised Christmas CGI so beloved of John Lewis as they are to my complaining about them. For Christmas Joe receives a gift to help him finally get a good night’s sleep. They say: Joe befriends a noisy Monster under his bed but the two have so much fun together that he can’t get to sleep, leaving him tired by day. I wish you a Groovy Christmas! Christmas advert 2017 John Lewis Christmas Advert – #MozTheMonster Me? I’m off to Soho with a my boomstick and a chainsaw attached to the bloody stump where my arm used to be. Whatever gets you through the festive period basically. Vote for your favourite, tell me about your most-hated – or simply go and hurl a brick through the window of a drive-thru. Granted some of them made me bleed from various orifices, but it’s just about possible to watch most of these adverts without devolving into a pile of fats and proteins. In the place? Black, asian and gay people by the bucketload, thereby replacing celebrities as the hate-filled lightning rod for fruitcakes, saddos and bastards.īut usually it’s the same old stuff: Christmas lights, tables groaning under platters, snow, CGI animals and multicultural parties in a non-threatening commuter town. That’s something references in plenty of these Christmas adverts below – from the V-flicking of Lidl to the orgy of badness seen in the advert for peacocks, which is responsible for a whole new alphabet to categorise just how far down the celebrity rung the ad’s stars are.Ĭompare these adverts to the Christmas adverts of a few years ago and the lack of celebrities is startling, as if the Brexit-hungry population might associate people who are not Norms as elite, and therefore hate them. Like politicians addicted to promising to make the lives of ‘hardworking families’ slightly less shit than last year, brands have become utterly obsessed with offering ‘value’, by which they mean ‘cheap’, by which they mean ‘shit’. You know what else Christmas is all about? Value.
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I’ve copied below the titles that the various brands and companies came up with themselves and while you can see more keyword stuffing than a Christmas turkey, you’ll probably notice that most have their very own Christmas Hashtag. Christmas isn’t Christmas without your very own Christmas hashtag is it? I mean, a hashtag really is the true meaning of Christmas and if your advert doesn’t have one you’re the equivalent of one of those fictional councils that has banned Christmas.