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First off, congrats to the New Orleans Saints on winning Super Bowl 44! Now that we’ve been bombarded by 52 Budwesier commercials (that still won’t make it a good beer), let’s discuss your favorite tech commercials that aired during the game. I’m disqualifying all the GoDaddy.com spots because I’m tired of Danica Patrick. Dante’s Inferno was the only videogame commercial I recall (I could have missed some). The choices in this poll are Google, Vizio, Intel, and Motorola. Let’s check out the videos and get to the poll!
Google’s ad was the most romantic and a lot of people were raving about in the Twitterverse. I thought it was cute…but that’s about it.
My personal pick is this Vizio ad, simply because Tay Zonday rules. “Chocolate Rain” forever!!!
Motorola promoted its upcoming Devour phone (a mid-level Android phone coming to Verizon) and MotoBlur with Megan Fox (with her circus-freak thumbs) in a bath tub.
I thought Intel’s commercial was lame, but it made drool for a MacBook with an i5 or i7 processor.
I thought all the commercials were especially lame this year.
I blame the economy.
@N8R I think my favorite was the Bud commercial with T-Pain. Budweiser sucks. Auto-tune sucks. They deserve each other.
@ R Pad
Yeah, but T-Pain was on a boat.
I actually have mixed emotions about auto-tune. There's the purist in me who calls it cheating and thinks Helen Keller might as well have sung the songs I've heard with auto-tune.
… and then there's the other side of me that just thinks it has yet to be used right. I have had about as many problems with singers as I've had with drummers. Different problems, but problems. Although I have sung in the past… I don't consider myself that good at it. BUT… if there was some magical machine that allowed me to alleviate the need for a real vocalist and pay one less person in the band… I might be all over it.
So far, all I've really heard it being used for is people trying to sound like Mariah Carey or Usher without being anywhere close to Mariah Carey or Usher.
The question I pose is… what if it was used in a band like Nine Inch Nails? or Godsmack? It might work.
The closest I think I've heard to that is I think Hetfield used it a little on one or two Metallica tracks… that's it.
Long and short, I think the phenomenon has yet to successfully crossover genres and when it does, it's gonna be a game changer. Of course old farts like you and me are still gonna say "Remember when people actually needed to know how to sing?" the same way our parents were comparing our music to Sinatra, or Lennon, or Elvis, or whoever from back in the day. Their parents treated their music the same way too.
Hell, every other musician can be replaced digitally now (except horns, electronic horns still sound like poop)… why can't vocalists be next on the scrap pile?
I think the real winners of the night were the Doritos Commercial. That little kid on the couch smacking the grown-ass man and telling him 2 things: Dont lay a finger on my momma or my doritos, was awesome.
@Smartguy – Geaux Saints. Played a hell of a game last night.
I agree with N8R, they all were lame this year. N8R, I'm surprised a musician such as yourself can be ok with auto-tune. Auto-tune has taken music to a new low. More people who can't sing are singing now behind the false sense of security of auto-tune.
Also… auto-tune is used ALOT in rock music, just not on the vocals. If the guitarist or bassist starts to fall flat on a note, we always just referred to it as "studio magic".
Speaking of stupid Super Bowl commercials……Really M. Night Shamalayn (or how ever you spell your stupid name)? We really needed a live action Avatar: The Last Airbender movie? Really?!? We couldn't find anything else to rip off and turn into a movie? I beginning to hope that the world really will end in 2012…..
@ Nightshade
I believe the pickings are getting slim. Check out these links:
http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=1663… http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=1667… http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=1668… http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=1668… http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=1668…
And that's just a few of the recent ones.
@N8R
Dude, I hate auto-tune but I love Kanye's 808s and Heartbreak album too. Paranoid is awesome but my jam is Say you will. I love that song. Kanye West is a jerk but he is a musical genius. At first I hated Love Lockdown but it later grew on me.
I agree with Larcenous the best commercial to me was the Dorito's one where the kid pimp slaps his mom's date. Pretty good Superbowl this year. I just wished the Colts would've scored that last touchdown. I needed that Superbowl square money!
@ RROD
So you see what I'm saying!
I can make as many complaints about auto-tune as I can about bagpipes. But when those bagpipes are played just right, they can evoke crazy emotion.
It's all in how it's used. T-Pain (for example)… is pretty gross about it. But… I think that's half of what makes "I'm on a Boat" so hysterical.
That was Reggie Wayne, the same guy who didn't run to the right spot and fight for the ball on the pick 6. It's the Super Bowl, show some effort.
I really cant remember anything about the commercials except that the Bud commercials made fun of other shows and commercials the whole time.
There was no clydesdale commercial this year right? Bummer. I like traditional things.
@Nightshade
Reggie definitely should have caught that last ball but Reggie was not open on that pick 6. Peyton never should have thrown that ball to a well covered man.
@ Smartguy
Your avatar should be Tracy Porter's haircut.
@N8R
He has a different haircut every game.
According to Porter, Reggie Wayne drops his shoulder when he knows the ball is coming at him. They saw it on film. So he and the rest of the players made it a point of looking for his tell. He saw it, and decided to go for it all. It worked. Amazing.
Did Reggie not run to the right spot, or did Peyton throw early? The world may never know…
I was sorry to see my Colts lose, but happy that a former Boilermaker won. Congratulations New Orleans Saints!
@Smartguy- Yeah, there was a clydesdale comm. The one with the clydesdale and the steer, who grows up and breaks through the fence.
@ Other news
I had to share this with you guys:
http://www.dumbassdaily.com/2010/02/sledder-62-in…
@Redd
I had no idea. Thanks lol.
Smartguy has a WICKED hangover!
Yes i do. Good thing I sent an email during the 4th quarter yesterday letting my employer know I'm sick.
This Saturday at the Endymion parade will be epic.
@Nightshade
Porter covered Wayne because he is the slower of our two starters too lol. We were putting Greer on Collie and Garcon, whichever was split out wide. Amazing.
Here's a clip of the pick. Watch how nonchalantly Reggie Wayne turns on the ball. Hard to blame that on Manning.
I'll be honest Smartguy, I've been tothe Big Easy before. I was expecting you to sleep the afterparty off until about Wednesday.
@N8R
I understand what you're saying, I just love the beat and the lyrics.
@ Smartguy
Your employer was drunk as hell saying "Yeah… sick, my ass!"
Him and that one bad smelling girl are the only people at your job today.
@ RROD
I do too… I just think it demands a strong bridge.
Bridges and endings (codas) are my favorite parts of any song. That's just me.
@Nightshade
You are correct when you said an INT is the receiver's fault half the time but the other half the time it's the QBs fault and this is one of those. Nothing you said matters when there is a DB in the receiver's back pocket. Reggie was well cover and the DB made a jump on the play. He wouldn't have been able to make a jump on the play if Reggie was open.
@Nightshade
I just watched the clip you posted again and like I said, Reggie was never open. The DB smell it the whole way and jumped it. Peyton should have seen that DB standing there waiting on the ball. There was no way Reggie could have gotten that ball the way the DB read Peyton and made that jump.
@Nightshade
I'm still drinking. I got a few hours of sleep. Tomorrow I'm going to the victory parade and then this Saturday I'll be downtown for the Endymion event. (it can't be called a parade).
My head is pounding, but it's still sweet.
@N8R
I think my boss was a bit tipsy. He signed his email as "The Facilitator" lol.
@Nightshade
You and I ALWAYS disagree. I just want say that it's all just good conversation. This would be a boring site if we all agreed on everything.
@Smartguy
I think Shockwave is the one who is really hungover.
@ Smartguy
See… if I were in your shoes, my boss would NEVER live that down. I would only address him as "Facilitator" for years.
"N8R, could you come in my office please?"
"On my way, Facilitator".
I worked for construction company for a while and one day the foreman sent me to the hardware store to get some caulk.
I asked him if he wanted white caulk, black caulk, yellow caulk, exactly how much caulk he desired, where he intended to put his new caulk, where he kept his caulk, told him he was staring at the caulk, if the caulk I got was good caulk, etc., so on, and so forth.
I never worked with caulk there again.
@N8R – I thought puxatony polamalu was pretty funny
@ Shockwave
Dude… Punxatawny is a very strange place. My grandparents lived like 45 minutes from there (right between Punxy and Indiana PA) in the middle of nowhere (closest neighbors were Amish… I'm not kidding). Punxatawny has groundhog everything. There's pictures of groundhogs on every street. Nice restaurants are even laden in groundhog paraphernalia.
It's kinda creepy.
@Nightshade
LOL. Yeah, just like the sports analysts. They get paid to disagree.
@Smartguy – congrats on the win, my favorite part last night was when one of the guys I was with said "Oh man, Manning just Farved it"
@RROD, I had a few but we got hit with some weather this morning, set my commute back an hour
@ Shockwave
I'm pretty partial to that movie for a few reasons. I'm down.
And yeah… it's crazy up there around Feb.2, and the rest of the year it's like Children of the Corn with groundhogs.
@shockwave
Yes, that movie is great. Very cerebral in lots of ways. How long do you actually think he was there? I'm guessing over 100 years. Also, yes i was very pissed at tax dollars spent to do a damn gov't commercial. 2.5 million of our dollars on that crap.
@ RROD
You know… I’ve actually pondered over it for a few years now. The first time I heard it was Cher in that God awful “Life After Love” song. Then Madonna used it… and now we have several examples of how it’s used.
The one that started flipping me was Kanye. I really like the 808’s and Heartbreaks album. Heartless was the song that got me to buy the album, but my jam is Paranoid. It got me thinking about how much I really care if people cheat or not. That Paranoid song literally gives me goosebumps… and auto-tune is all over it.
Now, there’s still the purist in me that holds the vocalists who worked their whole life to accomplish what they have, but I can hold them in a different regard. The same way I can listen to the raw grittiness of Enter the 36 Chambers and marvel at it with the same respect I can give The Misfits or Black Sabbath.
Completely different… yet notable.
That’s why I say that auto tune has yet to be used in a way that turns the heads of rock music. It surprises the hell out of me that Marylin Manson isn’t all over it by now.
Also… it’s always been a “who knows who” industry with talent being a second fiddle. Auto-tune lubricates those wheels… but these are the tools of the trade now. If you don’t adapt with the times, their gonna go right past you.
@ tokz
You’re the second person I’ve heard say they needed the Colts to score that last TD.
Who was it that missed that catch anyway? He should of had it.
He REALLY should of had that ball.
@ RROD
I listened to “Say You Will” again just to make sure I knew the jam you were talking about. I like the lyrics and the beat… but it seems like the whole song builds up to without a climax. It’s like a holding pattern.
Now, granted… the song is over 6 minutes long. Holding someone for 6 minutes like that is typically not easy. But I still think it was either too long, or should have stepped up a little more.
Just my opinion.
@RRoD: To blame that pick on Peyton Manning would be incorrect. Aboult half the time a INT is the reciever’s fault, and this is one of those cases. Peyton threw the ball to the spot before Wayne turned around on the route, just like he’s supposed to do. The CB beat Wayne to the spot partly because of a great jump on the ball and great preparation knowing what was coming, but also because Wayne never broke on the ball himself. He just stood there looking shocked that the ball was coming his direction. It’s the receiver’s job to break to the spot and go after the ball, even if it means playing defense to keep it away from the CB. He barely even ran after Porter after the pick.
I enjoyed several commercials but I had plenty of alcohol in me
@RRoD: I’m convinced at this point we should simply disagree about everything out of principle. If we were to ever actually agree on something, it might upset the balance of the Force.
@N8R – most people don’t like it but I always enjoyed the movie groundhog day. I could imagine that’s a weird place though, I don’t even think the movie gave it justice probably. I’ve heard some stories about how crazy they get with that.
At any rate. back to topic My LEAST favorite commercial is the one our tax dollars paid for, some stupid .gov crap. did that annoy anyone else?
i think carrie underwood should have used autotune
my favorite commercial (there werent many good ones) was the superbowl shuffle remake
prolly cause im old enough to remember the original, and i love when people make fun of themselves
@n8r
i cant get that avatar picture…is that princess vespa's stunt double?
@thundercracker That one was pretty excellent. How about the tech stuff?
@ Thundercracker
It's football Jesus.
I'm gonna have to switch up to hockey Jesus.
im sorry ray, i dont get the question
which tech commercial did i like best?,
im just a caveman, when i see the sunset i say to myself "is the sun eating the sky?" i dont know….
your honor, we dont need to deliberate, weve already made our decision…
key rocks words are as true now as they were back in his time, we award the plaintiff the full amount
I am still just a little shocked at the ratings this game pulled in. I know it was a good game, but I did not expect it to be record breaking, or to even double the average nielson rating, let alone triple (what this superbowl did) the average rating for a superbowl!!! And I was also a little sad to see the record that MASH had be broken.