Orbit Commercial – The Dancing Man and the Music

Elevators are making a big comeback in commercials lately. There’s the funny Progressive commercial featuring Dr. Rick. Then there’s the irrititating ad from Spectrum. Gum chewing company Orbit has an entertaining addition featuring a hit song from 2011. Check it out then scroll down for more info…

The Music. A song that swept over the country over 10 years ago, back this ad is Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me, Maybe.”

The Actor. Playing the dancing Orbit guy is Miquel Ripeu, an actor from Spain. You can check out his collection of acting jobs on his IMDb page and be sure to follow him on Twitter @ripeu. Here’s a mysterious post he had about the commercial shoot… “We’re super professional, but we have a secret…”

Do you like the Orbit commercial? Is the song stuck in your head now? Don’t blame me, it’s Orbit’s fault! See you tomorrow…

-Out of the Wilderness

Hershey’s hires spokesMAN for Women’s History Month

Sometimes I can hardly believe my eyes but in 2023 that happens pretty much daily. This time it’s Hershey’s. You know, the chocolate you use for s’mores. But now you can buy their chocolate for more than just campfire snacks. It’s also a show of solidarity for white men appropriating the female gender… and this, during Women’s History Month.

The ad aired in Canada so take it with a grain of salt if you live in the United States, I guess. I found out Hershey’s is standing by their campaign to hire the man (who goes by the name Fae Johnstone).

In a funny bit of backlash, conservative channel The Daily Wire is now selling chocolate of their own. You can find it at IHateHersheys.com and it comes with nuts and without (pun absolutely intended by Daily Wire).

This has gotten all a little silly, don’t you think? I’m holding on to the thread of hope that normal, sane people can see how ludicrous are the things and ideas the extreme liberal left believes or promotes.

I wonder how many feminists are outraged that Hershey’s hired a biological man to be the spokesman…spokeswoman… spokeswhatever… for their women’s campaign? You’d think every single one of them would be completely embarrassed on behalf of Hershey’s… but then the left would sort of be stuck in a conundrum. They can’t point out the idiocy of it without admitting trans-women are biological men. It must be tough to wake up every day and check their list of 1,201 things they have to get in line with to stay in favor with the group of people they long to be part of. Exhausting!

It’s even worse than this Gillette commercial from a few years ago showing a man shaving his face because he thinks he’s a woman. I wonder if he shaves his legs, too?

See you all tomorrow…

-Out of the Wilderness

Katy Perry and Her Trail of Tears

Only in a clown world would the victim of a school shooting be consoling a celebrity. That’s exactly what happened in a recent episode of American Idol. Dang it, and I was just sort of kind of starting to barely tolerate Katy Perry, a multi-hundred millionaire who broke down crying and yelling at America. Here in the video below where a student who went through a “mass shooting” is now singing on national TV, Katy flips the narrative to somehow be about her.

I’m scared, too.

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No one cares that you’re scared, Katy. Sorry to break it to you. I won’t tell you to just “shut up and sing” because, just like everyone, you are a human with thoughts and opinions and dreams and goals and fears. But this whole set up from American Idol will probably be the most cringe thing that happens all year. Honestly, did the guy even need to sing? He could’ve started his audition with the school story and they would’ve just handed him a golden ticket to Hollywood. I guess how much sob stories irritate me is a post for another day, though.

Katy. Stop crying. You aren’t changing anyone’s mind with your scripted outrage. But I did notice how quiet Luke Bryan was (about guns, specifically). That’s a man who knows his audience because I’ll tell you what, 99% of Luke’s fans have a gun strategically placed in each room of their house.

See y’all tomorrow…

-Out of the Wilderness

Morgan Wallen is Only Getting More Popular

On the eve of a big Friday for Morgan Wallen – a new album being released tomorrow AND a recently announced free concert in Nashville, yes it’s free – the country singer probably can’t help but look back at the wild couple of years it’s been since he was in the news for something other than music. If you remember, he was already somewhat popular with country music fans when a tattle tale neighbor recorded him using “the ‘n’ word” as he was dropped off at home one winter evening. Of course what Morgan did was a pretty bad idea and a bad choice of words, but what a *fun* neighbor to have, right?

Since that unfortunate scene, Morgan Wallen’s popularity has only grown…and grown… and grown. Even when radio stations stopped spinning his music, awards shows blacklisted him, and famous white people everywhere blasted him, his place in country music wasn’t vacated. I guess that old adage might be true, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity,” coined by P.T. Barnum. Tell that to Will Smith! Oscar Wilde said it this way…

“There’s only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

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Morgan is definitely being talked about and the numbers below confirm it. Take a look at a few screen grabs showing data from Spotify, Instagram, Shazam, and TikTok since that infamous video recording in late January 2021.

Mistakes aside, for country music’s sake it’s a good thing Morgan Wallen is around, especially when OTHER country music singers *ahem Brad Paisley* are making a joke of the genre. Good luck getting a ticket for tomorrow’s free show. Something tells me it might make the Taylor Swift Ticketmaster fiasco look like a walk in the park.

-Out of the Wilderness

The HomeGoods Commercial – The Music, Choreography, and More!

I really like the timing and editing of this HomeGoods commercial, from the flickering lamps to the spinning cars. It’s a cool commercial and uses a song that’s over 40 years old. Here’s the ad backed by Tom Tom Club’s “Genius Of Love.”

The Music. If the music sounds familiar to you even in 2023, it might be from one of the many songs that sampled it in the following years and decades. The recognizable instrumentation can be heard in Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy,” Mark Morrison’s “Return of the Mack,” or more recently Latto’s “Big Energy.” There are a ton of other examples, those are just a few.

The Dancing. Entertaining us with the fun dancing was the responsibility of talent agency BlocLA (check out their work and who they represent here), more specifically choreographer Jemel McWilliams, assistant choreo by Raphael Thomas, Craig Fishback, and Mone. You can find them on Instagram below…

Jemel @JemelMcWilliams

Raphael @Rastafa

Mone @moneswiff

Did you enjoy the ad from HomeGoods? Chime in below and feel free to add any and all of your thoughts below, too. See you tomorrow…

-Out of the Wilderness