I thought the ad was mildly amusing. It didn’t “offend” me.
When I was young my trombone playing was sooo bad my brother and sis told me to play on the poach so I could annoy the neighbors. I treat all commercials with a half grain of salt.
The tune is actually "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (thus spoke Zoroaster), a tone poem composed by Richard Strauss in 1896.
Shocker, the Woman in the Commercial is made to look bad and the worst playing kid is a young black girl on the cello instead of a White Man and White boy respectively.
Though I have to say, while annoying if you are offended by this ad, you seriously need to re-evaluate your life. What parent surrounded by screaming or loud kids hasn’t wished they could zone out somewhere.
I saw it one time and I thought it was hilarious. The kids were terrible. Everyone knows that. No one really wants to hear that noise, either. I have suffered through my share of piano recitals and band concerts. You do not so much enjoy them as endure them.
I don’t know, personally it takes me right back to being in school, playing in band, and all the long terrible sounding practice sessions we all endured. Had any one of us had the option, I’m sure we’d have jumped into the Infinity with the mom.
We have a problem in this country with a war on humor, and this Change.org petition seems like a symptom of that.
Initially, I thought the off-key music was a slam on Infinity being imperfect, and “out of tune”.
Will someone start a Change.org petition to compel cable TV not to have the movie “Gladiator” on every damn night?
I’ve seen that ad but had no idea as to the advertiser. So FAIL.
Am I the only one on this site who streams everything and therefore doesn’t have to watch TV ads?
this ad was not offensive in the least.
and newsflash- lots of parents go grudgingly to their kids sport and music activities.
Some don’t go at all.
DMA, college music prof here, I laughed my head off the first time I saw it, made it a part of my Music Appreciation course discussion issue of whether classical music is superior to pop.
The Left has no sense of humor, but that, like some primates, is a gibbon.
It was annoying but not much worse than all the others I tune out with sound down 🤪
The ad is terrible but it probably does a good job finding and depicting the brand’s audience