Posted on 08/22/2008 6:58:38 AM PDT by Mister Ghost
The new Wrangler jeans ad campaign shows how far adverts can go to capture people’s attention. Their provocative ads feature dead bodies with a tagline, “We are animals”. Models are strewn across the muddy ground or floating in a bog, so as to look like foxy murdered corpses.
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omg
I don’t even get their point. Perhaps they felt they could show more skin on a corpse? Sheesh, what sort of people ARE these ad guys?
susie
There’s a Levi’s TV ad out now where a couple break into someone’s apartment to have anonymous unprotected sex. I’ll bet they did it doggy-style with the lights on, too.
There. Fixed it.
Actually, maybe their line could be, “The favored jeans of serial killers” or “Everyone’s a victim!”
susie
Somebody in the Ad department is getting a little too much bong time. What’s the message “buy our jeans and you’ll get raped and murdered”?
Carolyn
The article says the campaign will only launch in France, yet the copy is in English. Doesn’t make sense to me, given the French hate the English language. And are the French that degraded to respond to such a campaign?
"Bad Touch", The Bloodhound Gang.
Damn, now I’m going to have to stop buying wranglers...
THey are the best jeans for the money too, Levi’s are overpriced crap anymore... pity they decided to buy into some reprobates at madison avenue.
I’m betting Levi and Strauss are spinning in their respective graves. I’ve seen this ad, and many like it. Some even on childrens’ networks. Sickening.
What is a “foxy murdered corpse?”
But the ads are grossly degenerate.
really? you’ll boycott over this?
I’m thinking the copy should read:
Wrangler Jeans - they even look good on the dead.
maybe it was funnier in my head?
Dang. Why don’t they just use the photos of corpses floating down the rivers in Rawanda. Just photoshop some jeans on them and get the same effect. Bloated, decaying corpses are not cool.
Necrophiliacs
'The campaign which will only launch in France'As far as I'm concerned 'Wrangler Jeans' could get caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy and I'd STILL buy them before Levi's - who gives money to the Brady Bunch and other gun grabbers.
Hell, I'd go nekked before buying Levi's.
And yep, I'm wearing Wrangler's right now.
Yea, I would.. if you are using corpses (or the illusion of them) to sell your products, and your product isn’t for the funeral business, a zombie movie, or military grade weapons, there is just something lacking in your morality.
Perhaps they should have superimposed wrangler jeans on the bodies being tossed into mass graves after the Nazi’s were defeated.
I don’t think a company should be rewarded for such poor leadership decisions.
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