But no Spice Girls
Everything about this sounds awful
Why is the John Lewis christmas ad treated as an annual “event” like its appointment viewing? Do not understand. Please advise.
[See also: media/public interest in the next Doctor Who/James Bond. The latter perhaps is marginally more newsworthy but also its just the same plot over and over again]
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I’m not from the UK, but are feminists there anti-trans?
Here feminists seem to support women (including trans women), and tend to be less bigoted in general. I always assumed feminism was about equality and it’d be crazy not to support equality, but maybe it’s different in other countries?
Actually just watched this. Where to start? I mean I’m here for receiving records as gifts and bonding with your kids over music but he plays an absolutely terrible version of the track which ruins it from the outset. Then it just gets worse.
And yes, no idea how the JL advert has become some national event.
Edit: the flashback scene should really have featured “dad” gurning and talking nonsense to strangers.
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The Woolworths TV advert was bigger news in the 70s / 80s though
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maybe if Farage becomes PM he can re-open all the Woolworths, employ all the original staff to make up for cutting their pensions and make are cuntry gr8 again. Seems like that would be votes in the bank 
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It’s a really weird ad.
At first I thought dad was going to see mum through the crowd and we’d see how they lived happily ever after. The fathers and sons bit got to me.
But what threw me totally though is the bit in the middle where the crowd disappears and dad is left on the dance floor getting emotional which really reminded me of a similar scene in Aftersun … and that didn’t end well for the dad.
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References the slow/alone bit in the Weekender video, surely?
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Rave boomers now the key JL market 
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I was in there Saturday buying xmas jumpers for my grandaughters… wouldn’t have it any other way.
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Fuck me that is properly cringe worthy. 
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The chemical generation’s “J.R. Hartley”
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Good lord! Of all the wonderful records they could have chosen.
I wouldn’t care if I never heard Where Love Lives ever again.
Oh and maximum cringe factor.
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Must admit that this got me, I am probably the exact demographic JL are going for.
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Deffo one of those tunes killed by ubiquity (see also 90% of the 90s)
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Ugh
“We really need to corner the middle class ex raver demographic”
You can just imagine the meetings at the ad agency, makes my skin crawl.
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“Right, brainstorm…what do they like?”
“Dance music, Ministry Of Sound, Kevin & Perry?”
"Can we get Haddaway? My niece can do an acoustic cover of What Is Love for a few quid:
“I heard that vinyl is making a comeback”
“YES! Like it, wheres the twist, the jeopardy? Someone is in hospital or… dead?”
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“If you know you know”
Fuck off.
Millions know -you’re not special
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