Posted on 04/26/2022 12:25:03 PM PDT by chajin
An orchestra of young musicians have published a masterful take-down of a car company, in response to its “tired” stereotyping of youth music-making.
Last week, the musicians released a video titled ‘An INFINITY Of Young Talent’, which references ‘Infiniti’, the luxury division of the car company, Nissan.
Infiniti released an advert earlier this month titled ‘Beautiful Mess’, which promoted their new car, the QX60.
“Quiet the chaos in style,” reads the ad’s description; the ‘chaos’ refers to the young musicians depicted in the video...
The advert portrays a youth orchestra playing Richard Strauss’ tone poem, Also sprach Zarathustra. However, the children seen in the video are in fact not playing, but miming along to a performance by an adult orchestra who had purposely been playing the piece badly.
In the advert, a model makes a negative face while listening to the music, rolls up the window to tune out the music, and drives away from the orchestra...
(Excerpt) Read more at classicfm.com ...
Something to bring a smile in an era where there is little to smile about--though that is changing (thank you, Elon and Ron).
Remake the ad with white supremacists turning up their noses at a rap “artist” performance and check the reaction.
cars to avoid 2022, including Infinti..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJracmdSQDU
unreliable, overpriced, underpowered
Good ad v INFINITI’s bad attempt.
My husband is very sensitive to music - I have to turn the sound down whenever that ad comes on :-)
Ha, do you remember orchestra competitions? Where you have to sit through SIX HOURS of other orchestras playing? And it’s pretty much all bad?
That was a foolish commercial.
Parents don’t need to be reminded of their harrowing experiences...
“I’ve cringed with horror at bad elementary orchestra performances”
Sat through many of those recently with grandkid players. The first year was rough but you have to ignore the actual notes and just root, root for all those little bobbleheads trying their hearts out. Year 3 actually starts to get enjoyable...
I love that commercial, especially the end where both the child and her mother are smiling. That ad makes me smile every time I see it.
Nissan USED TO BE a good car. Then they merged or were taken over with/by Renault. Since then, their quality has gone down the toilet. Their last decent vehicle was the previous iteration of the Frontier. To find a decent Nissan, you have to look back to the mid-2000s.
I watch Scott Kilmer videos and aside from hating GM, Nissan engine design just went downhill in 20 years.
The message is even more insidious than the tag line indicates. The real message is that women secretly resent having to take their annoying kids to orchestra practice, soccer practice, ballet practice, and other maternal responsibilities when they could escape to a much more satisfying life inside the cocoon of their luxury car.
This made me smile and I REALLY needed to smile.
Seriously.
Does EVERYBODY have to run around all butthurt over EVERYTHING?
Love it.
I can’t stand that Infiniti car ad.
Kudos to these kids/this very impressive youth orchestra program.
Agree.
Glad they’ve been called out....by this wonderfully talented group of kids.
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