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  • We Need To Talk About That Truly Awful Maroon 5 / Bob Marley Advert [Videos]

    18 Jun 2018 by Kiernan in Advertising, Football/Soccer, Music, Sport, Video
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    Every four years the footie World Cup rolls around, and a new generation of heroes and villains are beamed into our homes.

    Also beamed into our homes – adverts, over and over and over, to the point where you actually wake up in the fetal position with a jingle rattling around your brain.

    You might say it’s my fault for watching as much of the World Cup coverage as humanly possible, but you don’t have to be a football aficionado to have had enough of the Hyundai advert featuring Adam Levine and Maroon 5.

    Please, god, make it stop!

    At one point I counted SuperSport playing the seconds-long clip three times within a minute, and just when you think you’re due for some breathing room they tee it up again.

    I don’t give two damns about cars – they get me from A to B – but I’ll make a point of never owning a Hyundai for as long as I can draw a breath.

    This advert belongs in the bin:

    Awful. Cool red pants, Adam, and thanks for ruining a great song.

    I would love to know what ad exec thought that Bob Marley’s classic needed a redo, and then picked up the ringer and called Maroon 5?

    A little Twitter search reveals that I am not alone:

    SA comedian Yaseen Barnes gets it:

    As does Emma Turd of Bitcoin, Bishops and iPhone fame:

    A few more, just to really drive home the point:

    I hope whoever sanctioned this abomination is happy with what they’ve done. There are rumours that some people have actually pierced their eardrums with a sharpened pencil to make it stop, but they remain unconfirmed.

    By the way, if you thought the actual cover itself deserves to be listened to in full, it doesn’t:

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