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Topic: Sweet Caroline car adPosted By: atikovi
Subject: Sweet Caroline car ad
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2017 at 4:46pm
See this ad numerous times a day on TV and now cant get the
stupid song out of my head. And it keeps reminding me of that 90’s sitcom
Caroline In The City where she endorses a cereal company making a cereal in the
shape of the female anatomy. That woman in the ad even looks similar to her 20 years later.
Replies: Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2017 at 5:28pm
I could live without hearing that song for a long, long time. Seriously it's overplayed!
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Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2017 at 6:17pm
Posted By: timdubya
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2017 at 4:25pm
It ran twice during a single commercial break on last night's football game.
Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2017 at 5:35pm
I blame YOU Hyundai! I blame you for putting this stupid song back in my head! f**k off!
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Posted By: crainbebo
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2017 at 7:49pm
GOD I hate this one! Off-key singing and yelling at that! Fk off.
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Posted By: Jimmy
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2017 at 12:30am
Since I'm a Yankees fan, I really hate that damn song!
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Posted By: Ad Endless Nauseum
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2017 at 7:52am
Glad I am not the only one.
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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2017 at 11:00pm
Diamond wrote this song about Caroline Kennedy, who was 11 at the time. Kinda pervy. Maybe he told her Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon, plied her with some Cracklin' Rosie, gave her his Longfellow Serenade, and broke her Cherry, Cherry. He was just tired of being a Solitary Man.
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2017 at 11:10pm
Thor wrote:
Diamond wrote this song about Caroline Kennedy, who was 11 at the time. Kinda pervy. Maybe he told her Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon, plied her with some Cracklin' Rosie, gave her his Longfellow Serenade, and broke her Cherry, Cherry. He was just tired of being a Solitary Man.
Urban legend.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/20/showbiz/music/neil-diamond-sweet-caroline/" rel="nofollow - Neil Diamond reveals story behind 'Sweet Caroline' (link)
It was a great story.
For years the lore has been that Neil Diamond's 1969 song "Sweet Caroline" was an ode to the then young daughter of late president John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline.
On Monday, the singer revealed the truth behind the hit.
"I was writing a song in Memphis, Tennessee, for a session. I needed a three-syllable name," Diamond said during an appearance on "Today." "The song was about my wife at the time — her name was Marsha — and I couldn't get a 'Marsha' rhyme."
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2017 at 11:36pm
^ Yeah, that's what he said in 2014. But in 2007, he said...
...he was a “young, broke songwriter” in the ‘60s when he saw a cute photo of Caroline Kennedy in a magazine. “It was a picture of a little girl dressed to the nines in her riding gear, next to her pony,” he recalled. “It was such an innocent, wonderful picture, I immediately felt there was a song inthere.”
So it seems someone lied. It was either Neil Diamond or Neil Diamond.
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2017 at 11:44pm
I dunno.
You read the lyrics and it sounds like he's writing about someone he's intimately familiar and has a history with.
Like a wife.
He probably told the Kennedy story because it sounded more interesting than because he needed a three syllable name.
The truth is, a lot of songs get written that way. Merely the practical need to fit a word into a space that either rhymes or has the correct number of syllables.
Takes some of the panache away.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2017 at 11:53pm
True. Maybe You're So Vain is really about no one in particular. That'd be funny.
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2017 at 11:55pm
Thor wrote:
True. Maybe You're So Vain is really about no one in particular. That'd be funny.
I think that one is actually about who she's always said it was.
McCartney says the working title to Yesterday was "Scrambled Eggs".
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2017 at 12:03am
Who? To this day, she says it's about three different guys, only one of whom she's named (Warren Beatty). This, according to Wikipedia.
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2017 at 12:20am
I had never heard that. I always assumed it was about Beatty.
But it wouldn't surprise me if it was about a composite character consisting of more than one person.
Dylan did that in songs like Positively 4th Street.
I guess it's tough to write a good song about one person without having to take some liberties. Like I was saying earlier, often it just comes down to what you can make rhyme and how many syllables you need.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: crash1984
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2017 at 3:27am
Peggy Sue originally came about because a veterinarian was looking for a pig that had ran away and was calling sooie. Buddy Holly happened to be sitting on the porch with a guitar. After hearing this and started singing Piggy Sooie the vet suggested that he try Peggy Sue instead.
Posted By: tikibagger
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2017 at 3:07pm
I HATE this song with a passion..I always thought Neil was a faux hippie schlockmeister and to hear it embraced by a set of sports stupes and then THIS AD...that idiotic add-on from the 'fans' is just torture.
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Posted By: Ad nauseous
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2017 at 3:46pm
Plus this stupid 'song' gets in stuck in your head and never leaves. I HATE this sh*t!
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Posted By: Triple J
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2017 at 5:51am
This reminds me of that stupid ad from a couple years ago about another asshat driving around and blaring Billy Idol's version of "Mony Mony." BLAAAAAAH!
Posted By: ridley
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2017 at 3:31pm
whaaaa
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2017 at 6:36pm
Sweet car-o-mine!!
Posted By: MrCleveland
Date Posted: 29 Aug 2017 at 6:41pm
Better idea for this commercial...
...both the people stop by a red light singing "Sweet Caroline" and they drive simultaneously not even looking at the traffic light and...a semi crushes them both.
And...the guy in the semi is a Yankees Fan!
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Posted By: Anduril
Date Posted: 30 Aug 2017 at 1:46am
... with the semi hauling BBQ sauce.
Posted By: slhanks4
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2017 at 10:40pm
They play this commercial waaay too frequently. I am sick of watching it.
Posted By: NJtoTX
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2017 at 6:54pm
Jimbo wrote:
I dunno.
You read the lyrics and it sounds like he's writing about someone he's intimately familiar and has a history with.
Like a wife.
He probably told the Kennedy story because it sounded more interesting than because he needed a three syllable name.
The truth is, a lot of songs get written that way. Merely the practical need to fit a word into a space that either rhymes or has the correct number of syllables.
Takes some of the panache away.
In 2007 Diamond performed the song via satellite at Caroline Kennedy's 50th birthday party, and said that the song was about her. He told the Associated Press: "I've never discussed it with anybody before - intentionally. I thought maybe I would tell it to Caroline when I met her someday. I'm happy to have gotten it off my chest and to have expressed it to Caroline. I thought she might be embarrassed, but she seemed to be struck by it and really, really happy."
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2017 at 7:04pm
Crack whore Rosie gonna make me smile.
Posted By: mrsteve809
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2017 at 8:59pm
"If you're in advertising or marketing, kill yourself" - Bill Hicks, comedian.
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2017 at 10:07pm
Uh ohhhhhhh..... Thor, better not see that post...
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2017 at 12:00am
mrsteve809 wrote:
Am so glad to hear someone else post about this ad. I want to punch that stupid Ginger-bread boy straight in the face. And has anyone noticed the proliferation of gingers (pasty, white redheads) in ads? The adtards pandering to white America? People of color should not buy any product with these Vitamin-D deficient "actors". They are basically telling you that their product is not for you. It's the same with the Progressive ads, with the blindingly white backdrops and not one person of color that seems to work in their made up "stores". Just think how much a black person would stand out there. Just another way of telling people of color that this "product is not for them. They're so out of touch and don't realize that white people are slowly but surely dropping out of being the majority in this country.
Right on, bro!
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2017 at 12:13am
Pretty tame response there, dude.
Let's just say I'm a little disappointed.
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C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2017 at 12:23am
I just don't get riled up much anymore. I'm more amused than outraged these days by the stuff that's going on out there.
Recently, I was amused by the Catholic school in California that removed their religious statues so as not to alienate their non-Catholic students. You can't make this stuff up.
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2017 at 12:26am
It's just another in a long line of phases we're going through as society grows up.
Growing pains, as it were.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2017 at 12:31am
Kinda like acne?
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2017 at 12:38am
Masturbation.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Anduril
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2017 at 1:29am
Jimbo wrote:
Masturbation.
If masturbation hurts, you're probably doing it wrong.
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2017 at 1:38am
Or maybe your hands are too calloused and rough.
Could also be that the grit number of the sand paper you're using isn't high enough.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Mikemedeiros
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2017 at 9:41pm
The guy is horrendous.I could see him inspiring road rage incidents. I can deal with the woman humoring him. Not only was the song overplayed even before this ad and the link to the Red Sox is old, tired and ridiculous (and I live in Mass.). Also it's not the original version. The whole annoying "so good, so good" thing was added later.
Posted By: tikibagger
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2017 at 10:57pm
this ad ..with its seemingly ENDLESS reps on sports days..has now hit #1 on my MUST DIE ad list..both these strident losers need hockey pucks in their big fat N Diamond singing yaps
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Posted By: Moto Eric
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 5:07am
I hate the god awful actors in this commercial. That guy's overacting is worse then Will Shatner x 1 million. And I bet that girl is the kind of annoying aspiring actor that thinks every conversation, with everyone, everywhere is an audition/opportunity to show how "talented" they are. And so they turn everything into a performance, like paying for their groceries.
Posted By: Domdalom
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2017 at 11:38pm
I've went through three TVs already because of this damn commercial!
Posted By: Dr. John Dorian
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2017 at 3:27am
crash1984 wrote:
Peggy Sue originally came about because a veterinarian was looking for a pig that had ran away and was calling sooie. Buddy Holly happened to be sitting on the porch with a guitar. After hearing this and started singing Piggy Sooie the vet suggested that he try Peggy Sue instead.
Hey, that was an episode of Quantum Leap!
Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2017 at 6:17pm
mrsteve809 wrote:
Am so glad to hear someone else post about this ad. I want to punch that stupid Ginger-bread boy straight in the face. And has anyone noticed the proliferation of gingers (pasty, white redheads) in ads? The adtards pandering to white America? People of color should not buy any product with these Vitamin-D deficient "actors". They are basically telling you that their product is not for you. It's the same with the Progressive ads, with the blindingly white backdrops and not one person of color that seems to work in their made up "stores". Just think how much a black person would stand out there. Just another way of telling people of color that this "product is not for them. They're so out of touch and don't realize that white people are slowly but surely dropping out of being the majority in this country.
I feeeeeeel yer pain, bro.
If the 'people of color' (from the class you speak of) were to purchase such products, the government might make them explain where they got the money as 'whoring', 'drug dealing', and 'selling my foodstamps' (not to be confused with selling your children) are *not* acceptable answers.
All the 'Gingers' get the money spots, while most of the rest are sitting on 'death row' where they put themselves since they don't know how to behave in a civilized society.
In other words, if you are a disgrace to your race, then you're already in your place while so many others from all corners of this earth are fine upstanding citizens who don't even pay attention, much less have the time to 'point & whine'.
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