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Who do they keep hiring to do their commercials? First it was those outrageously sexist "WHERE is your mother?" ads.
Now it's a softly sung, very romantic version of 99 Red Balloons in a commercial touting Valentine's Day jewelry.
Did they not realize that 99 Red Balloons is a song about nuclear war?
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Comments (5)
Nope...
Its either a song in German about a bunch of red balloons
-or-
A song in English that is utterly incomprensible except for a single line that mentions Captain Kirk.
Ahhh... Why we all need a babel fish.
Posted by Mark | February 12, 2005 6:05 PM
Posted on February 12, 2005 18:05
Plus... Until JCP got its hands on it, the song really rocked... !
Mark
Posted by Mark | February 12, 2005 6:10 PM
Posted on February 12, 2005 18:10
...well, it's not like St. Valentine had such a beautiful death either. No war was involved with him, but there was a massacre once on Feb. 14th, about 75 years ago.
Posted by Koichi | February 13, 2005 6:38 AM
Posted on February 13, 2005 06:38
Well to be fair to JC Penny, it would be bucking a lot of cultural hegemony to do a commercial saying, "Valentine's Day is a crock of shit. But why don't you buy some jewelry anyway."
Posted by Cathy | February 13, 2005 12:19 PM
Posted on February 13, 2005 12:19
No worse than Microsoft using "Start Me Up" but cutting it off before the words "you make a grown man cry."
Microsoft also used an opera piece such that their cheery slogan "Where do you want to go today?" was followed by Italians singing "the sinners are damned to eternal torment"
Posted by Mitch | February 21, 2005 9:31 AM
Posted on February 21, 2005 09:31