Thursday, January 22, 2009

If a man steals to ensure that he's not done at work, is it truly stealing?

Microsoft Songsmith - it's the cool new thing.

It amazes me the number of times that adverts promote casual stealing. It seems that all marketing executives are under the impression that everybody else is willing to steal to attain a product, just because it's ludicrously tasty or whatever.

Maybe this is because everybody in marketing is evil.

Edit: Note that songsmith can hardly be attributed to the family now "having a happy home with every word in rhyme" because A) it doesn't come with a rhyming dictionary and B) the husband was singing normal speech even before coming into contact with the software.

2 comments:

jammy8891 said...

I love how the audience cheer when he says marketing people should kill themselves, but chances are they work for companies that rely on marketing to sell their products.

Anonymous said...

Fuck, I couldn't watch all of that Songsmith video, it was disgusting.

But "casual stealing" reminds me of the DKNY advert where two pretty people steal apples and feed them to each other, because they smell so good that everything should be free.