Comments on: “Things Are Getting Interesting” is getting… interesting

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By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:59:03 +0000

That’s the BETTER music?

By: lee

lee — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:29:35 +0000

I forgot to mention…they changed the music to something slightly less annoying.

Because I like kicking a dog while it’s down, I’m going to do another full post on the status of this site in a couple of weeks. My goal is to keep reporting on this until I get a cease and desist letter or bottle of VSOP cognac from Remy Martin. Whichever comes first.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:58:18 +0000

Ba-doo doo doo doo doo doo! (Thwak!) Ba-doo doo doo doo doo doo! (Thwak!)

That’s what it sounds like.

By: lee

lee — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:15:27 +0000

UPDATE: As of today (November 18, one week after this writing), the website has been expanded to include a back alley, but due to the still impossibly clumsy controls, i literally got stuck. I had to click on the “underground” shortcut to take me back to the bar, where “Music” and “Confessional” are still sadly “coming soon.”

I’m sure there will be a shotgun and a demon waiting for me when I check back next week.

Seriously, though, I urge you all to check out this website to marvel at how poorly executed it is and think about how much money RM is wasting on this. That is indeed interesting.

By: Gab

Gab — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:40:39 +0000

Yes, I meant that ad. Muahaha. That, and the one made “in response” from California, for their hard green tea. I personally enjoyed them because they were both amazingly executed examples of modern satire in themselves, but they still managed to have enough of the product being advertised that one doesn’t forget they’re watching an ad, yet still not feeling overwhelmed with the advertising itself. Satire is hard to do on its own, let alone when there are other goals apart from satirizing whatever the target is. Whoever came up with those- and more importantly whoever wrote them- deserved a really, really big bonus.

As for the other ad, it does look like a spoof to me, only because of all of the other ridiculous things that make things “get better” for those guys. Even though it does totally objectify those women, the men look pretty st00pid and useless, having no real agency in what’s going on around them (I couldn’t help but notice one of the Swedish women fishing instead of one of the men, for example; and the good stuff happens TO them, not BECAUSE of them)- so they too seem objectified. It’s totally over-the-top, so it’s not so much offensive as it is outlandish (in a comedic way)- at least IMO.

By: lee

lee — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:49:30 +0000

Gab: you mean this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0ZbV1N9Z0k

I guess there is (a small amount) of irony in alcohol advertising, after all. Though I fear there are some who would appreciate the Smirnoff Raw Tea Partay unironically.

Speaking of irony in boozevertisement, apparently the Swedish Bikini Team was interpreted by some as something of a spoof of alcohol ads with scantily clad women. I’ll let you be the judge of that yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtnMtrEB1-I

By: Gab

Gab — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:08:26 +0000

Okay, please tell me you’ve seen the Smirnoff raw tea commercials. *Please*.

By: lee

lee — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:58:55 +0000

I have to come back to the annoying background music on the site: I really recommend gritting your teeth and listening through one whole loop of the tune. Basically, it’s one note for the longest time, and I was positive it was the root of some sort of minor progression. But when the turnaround comes, (SPOILER ALERT), the bass line does a MAJOR pentatonic walkdown back to the root.

Come to think of it, that was both “interesting” and “unexpected.”