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Showing posts with label jack white coke commercial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jack white coke commercial. Show all posts
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Jack White and Coca-Cola
I came across this Coca-Cola commercial that was supposedly in Australia The music was done by Jack White of The White Stripes, a now defunct musical duo I enjoy. I was scrolling through the comments and they separated into two camps. First, there were those folks who understandably called Jack White a sell-out. I mean, here is a musician who rambles in the album notes of Elephant about the mass produced "cereal box" world that we live in but does a commercial for the world's biggest, and arguably most successfully marketed of corporations. I get that critique On the other hand, there were also those folks were told everyone to cut Jack White a break. I mean, as one poster so memorably put it, "if the guy has a Coca-Cola fetish, then so what? He gets to do a commercial for a product he loves." That phrase, "Coca-Cola fetish" glared out at me. I never thought of it that way, but as I've blogged before, Coca-Cola is all about marketing their sugar water so grandly that we have that type of emotional relationship with it: a Coca-Cola fetish. Anyway, I give no Jack no gripe about his commercial The guy is all about the colors red, white, and black anyway and Coca-Cola has two out of three of them. Advertise and drink away, Jack White. I love your music and enjoy a Coca-Cola. Just save me a can or two from Australia when you are done for my collection.
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