September 24th, 2008
A Jingle Nightmare
Posted by
Michael Calienes in
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F to the R to the E to the E to the….
It’s officially stuck. It’s in there, driving me mad — a modern-day Tell-Tale Heart effect which I have not been able to remedy for the last 72 hours. The only other melody that has had such an effect on my psyche was Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You, a song I will always hate her for.
Advertising jingles are a catch 22. They’ll either get stuck in people’s heads in a nice comforting place, or they’ll incite an adverse reaction, like they did in the guy in the video below (please be warned — it includes four-letter words).


