Shampoo Commercials
Yes, it’s already my sembreak. There’s so much thing that I want to do, like I want to bake a peach pie, change the layout of this blog, finish watching House MD (special thanks to the piraters here in downtown San Fernando), read1, write reviews of the books that I have recently finished reading, update this blog, and the list goes on but since I’ve mentioned about updating my blog… I have to update it.
I’ve already mentioned here that the shampoo commercials in the country looked like they were taped in other countries but it turned out that they were taped inside a studio with the usual shocking green background. Honestly speaking, I’m always fascinated with these commercials. Of course, minus the stupid jingles and the weird dance moves. Whoever created them are brilliant and it must have used all of their creative juices just to come up with these funny yet sometimes stupid commercials.
And this bring us to our own version of one of these shampoo commercials featuring three of my high school classmates. I was the one taping this so you will not see me. The following video was part of our final requirement for Economics back in High School. We decided to come up with this stupid spoofed commercial just to have some sort of an icebreaker. And yes, it was an effective icebreaker.
You might still remember that in the real commercial, the product that was being advertised ends with the letter “E”, but in this case, we had to change product-that-ends-with-letter-”E” into one of its rivals because we did not have any bottle of product-that-ends-with-letter-”E”.
And now, the advertisers had put the competition to the next level. We have now separate shampoos for men and women. Great? No. I don’t get it why there should be a separate shampoo for men and women. I can’t see any other motives of the advertisers but just to get more people, in this case, men, buy their product.
It’s just like they are saying “Hey, use our new shampoo for men! If you don’t, you’re a homo! Gay!” Smart advertisers, hu? I checked the bottle of both men’s and women’s shampoo of the same brand yesterday, aside from the difference in the color of the bottle, and the men’s have the words “for men”, it turned out there are only two different ingredients used for the men’s shampoo. Now, I wonder what makes it more effective if a male used it.
Advertisers are smart, but we should be smarter than they are. Seriously, I don’t think a man using a so-called women’s shampoo would make him a homosexual and vice versa. Besides, these so-called shampoos for men and women are just new in the market. Last year, when these weird innovations were just a scratch, nobody cares what shampoo we use or if we use them or not. I suppose, they have created a separate shampoo for men because there were no male models for a shampoo in the past. Heck, of course, they would use a female model in advertising their shampoo because females usually have longer hairs. And now, they’re recruiting male models to advertise their shampoo for men.
PS: And when you can say a product is “new?” I’ve noticed that some shampoos — well, not only shampoos — have the word “new” on their containers for ages. Surely, they’re not new anymore, don’t they? Ah, another advertising tactic.
- I’m still reading 90 Minutes in Heaven and I’ve got a copy of The Best of Youngblood — finally. [↩]
