Challenge #9 Celeb / Brand Inclusion

[john]

The beard joke line is from way back, if you want the Kermit one I'll send you it, only a 2 liner, John may know it! whats green........

 

Yes, I do indeed. Nuff said lol

I love this site.

 

Yay! that's what I like to hear

[Lisa Gates]

I think you have a pretty good foundation, but could add a few more brands, like in this verse: Suggestion: for two verses. Just a few suggestions, to try and help.

 

Working days are all through

We’ve got better things to do

Drinking Lipton by the pool  Kel's suggestion (by)

The best way to stay cool

 

It’s such a lovely day

McDonalds makes it go our way

Who are you texting

You said you were resting

 

 

Goldy          

Goldy,

I do like the Lipton idea, but to do the McDonalds reference I would have to change most of the verse...Ah well, I think about it if McD's ever comes to me for a jingle, I'll be armed and dangerous!

[Rudi]

Well heres my effort, Done today.

 

Theres a joke line in the bridge and I couldnt think of a good title.

 

Oh to be Young?

 

V

I see them when I’m in town

Wandering from shop to shop

Gucci bag clutched in hand

Time by a Cartier watch

 

V

Fingers draped in diamonds

Necks all wrapped in gold

Chanel dabbed all over

Not wanting to look old

 

C

They ponder on the things they’ll buy

Will it be Armani, Lauren or Klein

Their yesterdays are long, long gone

Their yesterdays are far, far behind

 

V

Time no longer on their side

Pursued by life’s cruel clock

Find answers on a TV show

Presented by the GOK

 

V

Vogue, headline “look fantasticâ€

Take inches off the hips

Bend your friend Mr. AMEX

Get some Botox in the lips

 

C

They ponder on the things they’ll buy

Will it be Armani, Lauren or Klein

Their yesterdays are long, long gone

Their yesterdays are far, far behind

 

B

The easy life hasn’t been too good to some

The Jenny Craig diet didn’t fix the bum

One more face lift the surgeon cheered

One more face lift she’ll have a beard

 

C

They ponder on the things they’ll buy

Will it be Armani, Lauren or Klein

Their yesterdays are long, long gone

Their yesterdays are far, far behind

 

Outro

The reflection they see in TopShop’s pane

Is one from which they cannot hide

But still they search for the magic pill

A vain attempt to turn youths retreating tide

 

Skin.

 

These products are not being endorsed. I never thought of an approach like that. Its the way to make it work though. Because it does work. Its a great indictment of the consumer driven society.

 

How many of us are manipulated by this stuff? How many would admit to it? You got me thinking anyway.

 

salut

Rudi

[Rudi]

My contribution, to this weeks challenge.

 

 

Tabloid Boy

 

Verse:

 

You were just young

A little while ago

Singing on Youtube

Playing the piano

Now you're it

Pompous as can be

Strutting Red Carpet

A celebrity

 

Verse:

 

Gucci sunglasses on

Cool as James Dean

Smiling at young girls

Making them scream

Fame has you reeling

You're a famous pop star

Your photo's in US

Holding a Gibson guitar

Chorus:

Tabloid Boy

You're Hot

Hot,

Hot

Paparazzi loves you

They want a shot

Shot

Shot

Of your big brown eyes

And your new tatoo

So they can sell it

To the Enquirer news

Verse:

 

The world's at your feet

You're a famous teen

A Nikon follows you

In your Ferrari machine

Just think what you can do

With the money you make

If you shared it with Care

You'd be ending heartache

Chorus:

Tabloid Boy

You're Hot

Hot

Hot

Paparazzi loves you

They want a shot

Shot

Shot

Of your big brown eyes

And your new tattoo

So they can sell it

To the Enquirer news

Repeat Chorus:

Goldylocks

 

A song about fame. Implied cynicism. The chorus is perfect I think. The verses serve to feed it and add to its potency.

[goldylocks]

Goldylocks

 

A song about fame. Implied cynicism. The chorus is perfect I think. The verses serve to feed it and add to its potency.

Thanks Rudi, the song is about Justin Bieber becoming a celebrity, and how it changed his life. Boy, did it change his life.  

 

Goldy      

[Kel]

flock   ^[1][2][34] down   ^[34] drift when driven in a group ^[34] drove when driven in a group ^[2][34] herd   ^[2][34] hurtle   ^[1][34] meinie   ^[34] mob   ^[1] parcel   ^[34] trip

 

 

flock of seaguls

murder of crows

herd of cattle

troop of baboons

sloth of bears

unkindness of ravens

colony of bats

congregation of aligators

preponderance of poms

tribe of kiwis

Edited August 16, 2013 by Kel

[john]

It has to be said the whole "not cool" angle has been used by advertisers for years for loads of products from kids games to clothes to vacations to food and drink, especially alcohol. In advertising land we are all beautiful people for good reason. We get a large part of popularity by association, or at least 99.99999999% of people do. That's why brand names are prominent on many products and we are happy or hem to be there. They get a free advert and product popularity vote, you get popularity by association. In our minds a brand has become associated with the beautiful people, and we by association must be like them, affluent, successful, carefree and cool etc. it's why a clique works in school too (or elsewhere for that matter). Marketers have become master manipulators because they know what we are likely to want, we are one of a small set of personality types driven by the same base urges and needs. Easy pickings.

[john]

flock of seaguls

murder of crows

herd of cattle

troop of baboons

sloth of bears

unkindness of ravens

colony of bats

congregation of aligators

preponderance of poms

tribe of kiwis

Um? Did I miss something about collective nouns?

[Lisa Gates]

Um? Did I miss something about collective nouns?

I was wondering the same thing....

patiently waiting the Kelism that is sure to follow.

tee hee!

[Kel]

Les welcomed Hobo to the flock.

 

Flock is a well known collective for various avian species, as well as sheep, and Les did hint at a sheep reference, therefore I reminded him of the other collective nouns for sheep, and a few other things while I was at it, especially for Poms and Kiws. I don't know what Scots call the English, (Tommy's?) but we refer to them as Poms, short for POME and popular legend is that the convicts wore clothes with said marking being Prisoners Of Mother England. Whether or not they ever did is irrelevant. To us anyone from England is a Pom!  And at the moment, Poms are nasty creatures who retained the Ashes, the prize of the cricketing competition between England and Australia. (The bales from the First Test were burned and placed into an urn, and said urn being the prize, containing the Ashes. [bales are the two short sticks sitting atop the long sticks the bowlers are trying to hit with the ball, while the batsmen are trying to prevent just that with yet another stick, shaped like a cut down fence paling.])

 

If we were singers instead of songwriters, I suppose choir would have been a better collective noun.

 

In fact, now I have done my homework, the correct term would have been either:

 

Welcome to the verse...

 

or

 

Welcome to the inspiration.

 

Neither terms are Kelisms, they are indeed real terms per http://all-sorts.org/nouns/songwriters

 

I rather wish they were Kelisms, but I can't claim these ones.

 

Kel

[Kel]

By the way, POME, was I believe, not a brand name anybody looked cool wearing, though they did belong to the "in" crowd, I suppose.

 

K

[Kel]

Furthermore, I suppose not all Songstuffers are songwriters.

 

Some are composers and others lyricists.

 

Collective nouns for composers are: a liszt, a crraunch, an alstiz, a clef, a jsundram, a score, a staff,  a concerti, an aloof, a mozart and a crescendo.

 

None of the above are Kelisms and are listed at: http://all-sorts.org/nouns/composers

 

 

 

However, there is no listing for lyricists, however there is a listing for writers, being:

 

A block of writers.

 

I believe lyricists are a specialist form of writer, and have rejected the banal generic and therefore I propose the following additions to the ever expanding accumulation of Kelisms:

 

Of lyricists: a conundrum, a thesaurus, a rhyme, a perservence, a ditty, a prelude, a refrain, a chorus, an interlude, a pronouncement...

 

I will accept more nominations.

 

Kel

Edited August 16, 2013 by Kel

[Kel]

Once upon a time, the English would send the scum of their cesspools to "...the lands beyond the seas," in a rather inane way of trying to keep the flowering essence of English idealism a pleasant place for all the fine gentry.

 

These days, the English flee to their former colonies in an effort to get away from the scum of their cesspools they attempt to leave behind to their fate.

 

Ironic, isn't it?

 

K

[john]

I don't know what Scots call the English,

Oh, we have many names lol

just As I know my English friends have many names for Scots Generally well meant by anyone I know, but then there are arses on both sides of the border.

Jock is the Scottish form of 'Jack' (a diminutive of John and James) and has been applied to Scotsmen since the 18th century.

Taffy is how the English misheard the common Welsh name 'Dafydd' (David), as 'taffy'.

Paddy is an abbreviated form of Patrick or Padraig in Ireland.

Tommy was applied only to soldiers not Englishmen. In the British army, For documents that soldiers had to fill in, where the name had to be inserted, the example showed: "Tommy Atkins".

As far as Pommy for British immigrants goes, it originates from the shout of 'Pomegranate' by local children, used to make fun of the new arrivals in Australia. The pomegranate being a fruit with bright red flesh, similar to the badly sunburnt new arrivals. (Sorry Kel, It had nothing to do with prisoners. The idea that it stood for 'Prisoner of Mother England' is an urban myth.)

In the UK rather than nicknames for Englishmen we have nicknames for people from different areas if England, such as cockney (east end of London), scouse (Liverpudlian) etc. taffy, paddy and jock were national nicknames the English used. In Scotland the closest we had was "sassenach" which is a Gaelic term meaning "lowlander" (as opposed to a highlander). Often applied to Englishmen but really it could be applied to a lowland Scot too. Not a derogatory term, as such, more dismissive than anything else.

Brits were also called Limeys in some parts because our sailors ate limes to avoid scurvy.

I am sure cricket was invented as a torture device. It sure feels that way when faced with matches and commentary. Never mind burning the original stumps, surely we can burn all stumps and bats in an offering for world peace? I feel it's worth a try.

A pity about your POME definition, it could have been the original chain store?

[john]

It's interesting how brands convey so much meaning in a single word. They bring a whole shed load of associations and meanings giving lyrics an instant depth and developing the context.

Additionally they can make lyrics easier to identify with, easier to connect to.

Plus they can provide an earning potential.

As a detraction they can date lyrics, for example when a brand disappears from the marketplace listeners generally know the lyrics tend to predate that event. Even if they are no longer fashionable or in vogue using a brand can have that effect.

[Kel]

Since when does truth have any relevance to an accepted (if urban) myth?

 

Still, it is an interesting explanation.

 

Kel

[john]

Any personal lessons learned regarding brands? I think sharing such insights could be a valuable way to gain perspectives.

[john]

 

Still, it is an interesting explanation.

 

Kel

True dat

[goldylocks]

You all sound like you're smoking your lyrics. Is that what's making you so giddy? This board is starting to run away like a Saturday Night Live spoof. So much intellectualism, with witty humor.

I agree with Lisa, you guys are hilarious, should have your own sit com.

Goldy

Edited August 16, 2013 by goldylocks

[john]

My bad. Just some light natured lyrics spilling over, but you're right. I would point out that it is one topic. From my end I should know better.

I tidied up and removed some of my contribution above. An attempt at fun yes but wandering seriously off topic.

BTT...

I've made some relevant observations and asked some questions above, do with them what you will or not.