Tv Adverts You Love.

Certainly took me by surprise when I found out. On a deeper level, I think it's more evidence that nobody is born racist but learns/is taught to be. We just loved it for it's catchy tune and 'funny' characters. Critics have said that it's sowing the seeds of racist stereotypes in to you subliminally, but I never ended up a racist so not for me.

The happy jingle wasn't actually written for the advert, it was an existing song called Fedora (I'll be your dawg) by the band Caramba with the original lyrics being "Fedora.....for sure-a". The marketing geniuses changed this to adore-a....Kia-Ora.

A Labour MP got in trouble a few years back when she shared it in some Whatsapp group: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/what-can-learn-labour-mps-12014677

The original song can be heard here:

 

All those Black Label adverts were brilliant.

 

Have we had this one yet?

 

I just described this to my wife about a week ago, and she looked at me like I was utterly insane.

 

Guinness ads have mostly been pretty iconic. I like the Boddingtons rip offs