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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIncredible!!! Must see Ad about Trump!!! Exceptionally well done!!!
http://adage.com/article/campaign-trail/vain-carly-simon-s-iconic-song-trump/306236/'You're So Vain': Carly Simon's Iconic Song Is All About Donald in Anti-Trump Ad
The new spot, created by the pro-Hillary Clinton Super Pac Patriotic Artists and Creatives, is an unabashed, almost joyous attack on the Republican candidate. It opens with a mosaic of TV screens featuring soundbites of various talking heads, including prominent members of the Republican party, calling Mr. Trump a narcissist.
Ms. Simon's song then kicks in and the ad goes on to employ a now familiar anti-Trump advertising device: turning the candidate's own words against himself by recycling moments such as when he mocked a disabled New York Times reporter or an E! interview in which he admitted he couldn't say that he treated women with respect. It also piles on image after image of Trump-branded products, from steaks to casinos to buildings and water bottles.
According to the ad's YouTube post, this is the first time that Ms. Simon has agreed to use her song in a political ad. (It appeared in advertising at least once before in a U.K. ad for Dunlop tires.) But as revealed in a Forbes piece by Melinda Newman, there's a notable bit of new material: a freshly recorded line from Ms. Simon herself, in which she replaces the lyric "your scarf, it was apricot" to "your face, it was apricot" just as the spot projects a close-up shot of Mr. Trump's neon orange puckering mug.
malaise
(269,004 posts)Rec
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)TV Ad, $$$$$'s, but maybe they could do this and take off two of the shorter ads. I love how the republicans are calling out Trump. You know, if Trump stalks Hillary again like last time tonight, I think some in the audience might burst out laughing. Trump, is such a fool and he just doesn't get it that much of the world is laughing at him. Then, after the election, the world can laugh at Trump The LOSER!
malaise
(269,004 posts)the set up is like the first debate
whathehell
(29,067 posts)niyad
(113,312 posts)2naSalit
(86,622 posts)Thought of this song in reference to the cheetor quite some time ago.
Mosby
(16,311 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)right in a row.
At a very deserving target, needless to say.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)voice in the background.
"...while you watched yourself gavotte" -- and Trump wobbling back and forth like a bobblehead doll. LOL!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Thanks
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)stage left
(2,962 posts)I love this so much!
Mme. Defarge
(8,031 posts)Devastating!!!!!
lark
(23,102 posts)I'd love to see this on tv.