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The royals had another baby. Meghan Markle and hubby Harry welcomed a baby girl and while any new life is awesome, I’m STILL wondering why these folks are in the news… in the U.S.! I mean, does July 4th mean anything anymore? For all my life the royal family has made news here in the states. When I was little, I didn’t really think much about it.
Now as an adult, when I see news stories about anything royal, I’m like…
Especially when information about this couple (Harry and Meghan) is about as useful to me as a children’s book written by a Deal or No Deal “briefcase girl.”
Also, outside of the wedding event years ago, I haven’t really come across anyone who DOES care what’s going on with the royals. Could it be that mainstream media keeps up with them despite no one really caring? The way the media has presented itself in politics alone makes me believe that yes, it could be the media reporting on stuff they want us to think is important.
So back to the point of this post… if you can explain why I should care about the daily updates about Harry and Meghan, I’m all ears.
Evidently this ad has been out for at least a year but it’s brand new to me. Check out Daisy’s commercial for cottage cheese, and be warned: you will be singing this song for at least the next three hours.
This might be the catchiest original song in a commercial ever. One fan has even looped it for our listening pleasure.
Another fan slowed it down, what do you think about this emo version?
The voice. The singer providing her voice for this ad is Lili Blessing. She’s also responsible for the soundtrack of this “Today’s the Daisy” ad…
How are you all feeling about these Daisy ads? Do you love them, hate them? Be honest, you’re grabbing your keys to go pick up some cottage cheese aren’t you?
Eli Lilly & Co have a 90-second ad out now that aims to promote a level playing field when it comes to access to medicine. Take a look…
Sometimes when I post about commercials I keep my personal opinions to myself, just delivering information about the actors, music, etc. Not so today.
This ad from Lilly (created by PHD Media) gives the viewer a sense of the problem, backed by urgent music then offers up the solution, in this case the solution is Eli Lilly & Co (surprise, surprise) with hopeful, inspiring music playing in the background.
Besides the fact that Lilly is a company that wants to make money so of course they’re going to try to make themselves look virtuous and all that, there are a couple of subtle messages within the ad that, the more I think about them, tick me right off.
The first one floats by without much distinction. Did you catch it? The line goes like this: “The body you are randomly assigned at birth…”
Um, WHAT? I’m shocked this script didn’t get another revision (or even more scary, maybe it did!). “Randomly assigned”? Who writes this woke junk? I guess one way to look at it is that at least they acknowledged a higher power, after all if a body is assigned to someone, someone’s got to be doing the assigning, right?
But even within this line is another bothersome phrase: “assigned at birth.” Hmm. What about the body for the previous nine months inside the mama’s belly? They are telling the viewer indirectly that you are not a human till you are born. Scary stuff. The reality, whether Lilly & Co wants to believe it, is that science is on the side of a fetus being its own entity VERY soon after conception. Case and point: Just 21 days after conception the fetus has a blood type. Without getting into the details (you can check out this post for more info), one person cannot survive with two different blood types in their system. So if the fetus is just an extension of the mother, say bye bye to mama because she will have two blood types, which is 100% fatal. But for centuries pregnant women haven’t been dying by the millions! So what’s up with that? I guess it’s the science. The little life growing inside her is a person, a human, with its own blood type.
The second subtle message from this ad is: white people bad. All other people – good. Take a look at the ad again if you need to, and notice when white people show up, if at all. It’s when they mention zip code 90210, showing two white couples. The first pair is eating a meal in an extravagant setting. The next couple is playing tennis in a country club type setting. In other words, white people are rich and out of touch and should be discriminated against. Side note: exactly how terrible and lazy are these tennis players? There are a million balls laying all over the court.
Later they show a black man wearing a covid mask standing in front of a billboard with a white-haired lady smiling, no mask. OK, I thought they were trying to be subtle but now I’m not so sure.
The only other white people we see are a couple of kids, and kids are (and should be) exempt from being portrayed as evil. That title is reserved for the evil white adult. White people bad! Definitely don’t buy the white man in your life this manly hat.
I cannot stand the pandering in this ad. Just so we are all on the same page, anyway, we all know Lilly is a company that wants to make money, right? So let’s pay close attention to what they say, and who they say it about, because at the end of the day they shot and edited a commercial to appeal to a group of people so those people will spend money on Lilly products. That’s all it’s about. Don’t let picturesque clips of black people playing basketball or Mexican people dancing to Mexican music cloud your vision. You can be 1,000% sure they did market research, tests, studies, to find out how best they can spend their advertising dollars to get the biggest return. Sadly, Lilly went with bashing white people and promoting a pro-choice agenda.
For all of us who have exited a womb and appreciate the beauty in the colors of all of our skin, this ad should be offensive. It keeps alive the idea of division based on race, economic status, and geographic location. With that said, I guess the commercial actually does exactly what it’s claiming to be against.
How do you feel about the ad? Did anything stand out to you as being divisive, or unifying? Chime in below and let’s discuss!
I have been an Elvis Presley fan for a long time and it’s something I share with my dad, which is really cool. Over the years I’ve come to really appreciate Elvis’s music and style. I don’t think either can be matched by anyone ever again because of the era in which he was famous. But beyond that, did you know Lisa Marie (Elvis’s daughter) was a mother to a son? That means there was a kid out there who could say Elvis was his grandfather. I mean, I had the best grandfathers in the world, but I can’t wrap my head around the fact that there was a young man who was the only guy who could make this claim. –(EDIT: Elvis has granddaughters, too, but I’m just addressing this from a man’s perspective)– Can you imagine being able to say Elvis was your granddad? It’s just crazy to me. Also, and I’ve written about this before, at one point two iconic figures were related. Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley. Weird, sure, but also crazy that two of the most well-known entertainers were related (although it was decades after Elvis had died that the marriage happened). Just weird!
Also, it should be noted that I purposely used past tense referring to the grandson of Elvis, because the young man passed away a few years back. There will be no legacy from the legendary singer, not that his grandson was a singer or anything. Scroll down for more…
A couple of other oddities from a few of his songs… I noticed some of the lyrics include phrases and things that definitely would not fly in today’s music (unless you’re a rapper, I guess?) Check out the lyrics in the songs below.
“I rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man…” –Let’s Play House
I hear you’re pretty good at runnin’, but pretty soon you’ll slip and fall. That’s when I’ll drag you home with me, girl, I’m gonna chain you to the wall…” –Dirty, Dirty Feeling
I hope you found these things to be interesting, I sure did! Do we need to review these songs to see if they are inappropriate to play in today’s society? In a cancel-culture society, should they be dropped from the radio? Chime in below, thanks for stopping by!
I’m turning into Michael Keaton day by day. Why? Because in 2014 he was Birdman and 7 years later the title has been bestowed on me. Ok, no one calls me that but I’ve given myself that nickname due to all the birds I’ve been obsessed with since the beginning of the year. I even bought a book about birds from an estate sale. A bird book. Birdman has a bird book. I always thought I would be Orlando Bloom or Jack Sparrow. Michael Keaton? Hmm. Whatever.
Anyway matey’s, the other day I was in the front yard, where this nest hosted 4 little birdies, when a female cardinal quickly flew off a high part of a bush near the front of my pirate ship house. I thought, “Arrrrrrr!!! That’s peculiar.” I peaked in the bush and sure enough, there was a nest! It was too high to see inside so later that day I got out a small ladder, like any good pirate would do, and this is what I found.
Awesome!! Speckled eggs, and a lot of them. I am very curious about how cardinal chicks look when they’re hatched so I will be sure to pass along any updates in the coming days and weeks.
Eggs be a’hatchin’, stay tuned for more. Thanks for docking your ship here today, ya scaliwag!
Out of the Wilderness 