I've been seeing these "The touch, the feel of cotton" commercials since I was a kid. And even then, I thought it was a total waste of money. I don't see it as an investment. Seriously, have these commercials ever made anyone run out and buy cotton products? I mean, other than the ones that the viewer was going to buy anyway? I get what the message is; it's in the tagline: "The fabric of our lives." We use cotton products all the time. T-shirts, bedsheets, cotton balls, Kleenex, denim, et cetera et cetera et cetera. However, I'd wager that not a single purchase of any of these cotton-based items was ever a result of these commercials or their cute little Cotton song (many versions of which are not even remotely pleasing to the ear.) And even if some idiots did buy cotton solely based on some commercial, I bet that this number was infinitesimal and therefore wasn't profitable for the bigwigs of the cotton industry.
People have been buying jeans since Levi Strauss invented them. People are not buying jeans because some 30-second advertisement made us exclaim, "Dude! I gotta go shopping! There is so much shit that comes from cotton! It's... man, it's the muthafuckin FABRIC OF OUR LIVES, bro! That shit blows my mind!"
Is it cool that cotton serves so many purposes? Yes. Are these commercials necessary to keep the industry afloat? Um, no. The only reason they would need to show these ads would be if me and my people (the Blacks) got together and decided to boycott cotton because our ancestors had to pick it, so the industry started losing money. I am not an angry Negress and will organize no such boycott, nor would most people participate in one. But I digress (as usual).
Bottom line, the commercials are a waste of time and dollars. Nowadays, people are worried about their food, not about cotton. I'm not concerned about finding traces of E. coli in my white tee.
This commercial is the worst one I found. Not only is it more boring than the other videos that came up in my search, but this particular version of the cotton jingle is sung by Aaron Neville. I hate his voice more than people hate Fran Drescher's laugh. Watch the offender below:
People have been buying jeans since Levi Strauss invented them. People are not buying jeans because some 30-second advertisement made us exclaim, "Dude! I gotta go shopping! There is so much shit that comes from cotton! It's... man, it's the muthafuckin FABRIC OF OUR LIVES, bro! That shit blows my mind!"
Is it cool that cotton serves so many purposes? Yes. Are these commercials necessary to keep the industry afloat? Um, no. The only reason they would need to show these ads would be if me and my people (the Blacks) got together and decided to boycott cotton because our ancestors had to pick it, so the industry started losing money. I am not an angry Negress and will organize no such boycott, nor would most people participate in one. But I digress (as usual).
Bottom line, the commercials are a waste of time and dollars. Nowadays, people are worried about their food, not about cotton. I'm not concerned about finding traces of E. coli in my white tee.
This commercial is the worst one I found. Not only is it more boring than the other videos that came up in my search, but this particular version of the cotton jingle is sung by Aaron Neville. I hate his voice more than people hate Fran Drescher's laugh. Watch the offender below:
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