The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108049   Message #2246952
Posted By: Grab
28-Jan-08 - 09:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: Specsavers ad, insult to Edith Piaf
Subject: RE: BS: Specsavers ad, insult to Edith Piaf
Victor, are you just looking for an excuse to feel aggrieved?

There's zero connection between the film and her childhood illness - glasses don't affect keratitis. You might as well say that you're offended by an advert for food because you once had a stomach bug.

No, your grievance is simply that they've used one of your idols' songs on an advert. So get over it! You don't own it. And at least it's been used in a way which makes it somewhat imaginative - better than trashy woman's mags using "Whatever you want" or "More more more", or Microsoft using "Start me up", or the recent car ad which uses "Dock of the bay" completely out of context.

As for me, I'm with Doug - for me, her voice is (to quote Neal Stephenson) "like having a killer bee in each ear". Ah well, other people don't like Chris Isaak and Dire Straits, so hey ho.

Graham.