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| Middle-aged lady aliens just wanna have fa-hun! |
Argos. Although it goes against my better judgement, the alien family in your Christmas adverts are quite endearing. Still pretty crappy adverts, but I did find myself chuckling to the family repeating the famous "we're walking in the air" lyrics whilst watching The Snowman. We all do it, don't we? Adopting that falsetto choir boy voice. However, my point today is a poor judgement call by the ad-makers. Although it is hard to ascertain the alien parent's age, they are recognisably voiced by Bill Nighy (approx. 60 years old) and Caroline Quentin (approx. 50 years old), so when the dad says, "Mmmmm....egg nog" followed by the mother's, "Mmmm....Bieber" there's something a little wrong about a 50something lady seemingly wet at the idea of babyface teen Bieber. Firstly, I would question the credability of any female over the age of 20 finding Bieber appealing or sexually attractive? And secondly, if it were the dad saying, "Mmmm....Miley" over teen star Miley Cyrus, that would definitely be creepy, wouldn't it? Yet another example of the advertisers wheeling out the contemporary media cliche of "women, we're so sexually liberated now. Our lives are just like an episode of Sex and The City!" Tired and irritating to say the least. And, in the Argos case, creepy and wrong. I'm not going on a Daily Mail style moral crusade here but, Argos, that was a poor judgement call. "Mmmm...Bieber" Ew!
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