It even smells tacky

June 14, 2004 – 4:57 pm
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The entire world seems so tacky to me right now. Maybe it’s the hot summer weather, but it really seems like the world has become all the sudden unbearably designed and nauseatingly tacky. It seemed that from 1998 until now, the world was beginning to become interesting. No more icky jeans, no more STUPID advertising! The world seemed nice and sophisticated. People were going to Starbucks, wearing stylish clothes, and buying the new Apple iBook G3. It was swell.

Then. Then 2004 hit and the world suddenly sucked. A lot. All the sudden I’m seeing MULLETS and CHEAP ADVERTISING, and hardly anything new in the cool design/technology department. The world is in a new idea rut and we need to get ourselves out of it and FAST.

I mean look at the new ads on TV. Is it just me, or have they lost all of their urban chic and humor and all the sudden became extremely dull and suburban? Just look at any Wal-Mart [ech] ad. HORRIBLE!

Is this something that happens towards the middle of any decade–Oh my goodness it’s almost the MIDDLE!– or is this something that just happened to happen?…. It’s terrible!

2 Comments

  1. adsieve
    Posted June 16, 2004 at 12:21 am | Permalink

    In 1998 we were in the middle of a booming economy, .coms and technology companies had all the money because that’s were investors put it. So of course there was great innovation during that time period. There was also a lot of money to make ads with, and when people have a lot of money they are willing to take more risks, thus cooler, funnier advertising.

    Now we are in the recession. Advertisers don’t have a lot of money. They want to do what they know works. Ads are more conservative now, and fewer risks are being taken.

    So, when we come out of the recession, maybe the world will seem less tacky and we will see better ads, more innovation, and better, riskier, ground breaking ideas.

    Here is a list of some good advertising that is happening right now. Don’t let Wal-mart spoil it for everyone.

    Citi – Identity theft solutions

    Saturn – People First

    American Legacy Foundation – Truth

    Molson Canadian – Twin Label Technology

    iPod – Shiloutte

    Remember great advertising doesn’t always have to make people laugh. Great adverting moves people and commerce.

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  2. maxigumee
    Posted June 16, 2004 at 9:57 am | Permalink

    I really like those ads, too! I also like the Fructis shampoo ads. :P