"Commercials" Blogs & Blog Posts

Beastie Boys remind Chili's that copyright infringement isn't something you can just Fight for the Right to do. Generic American food chain Chili's reportedly released a new commercial that featured a visual recreation of the iconic music video for t...

12 years ago, this funny and weird Japanese commercial for Chocoballs was uploaded to YouTube. I enjoyed the total absurdity of the video, where a line of people with chocolate bodies and bird legs march around an animated cityscape, singing a s...

Yesterday, Apple released a commercial to advertise its new iPad pro. It features various musical instruments being mercilessly squished in a hydraulic press until, voilà, an iPad Pro materializes from their mangled remains. So edgy! So avant-garde!

In 1995, Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and The Monkees pitched Pizza Hut pizza in a TV commercial, seen below. (Well, 3/4 of The Monkees anyway—unsurprisingly, the great Michael Nesmith didn't participate.) Perhaps the best part of this story is...

Yet another Steely Dan lost treasure has been unearthed. The daughter of late Steely Dan engineer Roger Nichols has found the audio for a commercial jingle the band wrote and recorded for Schlitz Beer in 1972 or 1973. Link to the article on Jake Ma...

Watching commercials from the 90s and 2000s feels like dropping acid with Jim Morrison and Grant Morrison on a neon carousel. Lest we forget, the 2000s gave us this "gem" of an ad that still lives rent-free in my to this day. — Read the rest...

In 1986 this AT&T commercial aired, voiced by Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. by u/Sfphiynckxs in superman With how wonderfully evergreen Superman's premise and mythos are, remembering that the character is only a decad...