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    Posted: 25 Nov 2019 at 1:25am
They're playing "Jingle Bells" in this Cadillac ad, but they got the tune WRONG. It's not that they skip part of the song, it's the "o" of "open sleigh" at the end of the tune. And then they keep repeating the mistake over and over and over. (0:13 in the clip). Is that just to annoy the hell out of us, or what? (I can't imagine it's a copyright situation, where they would have to change something.)

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote aka ron Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25 Nov 2019 at 5:41pm
^ You're right!  Every time they hit that note it is wrong!


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Thanks for the chuckle,  I needed that,
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They're doing it again this year. I think there's more than one wrong note. Also, the bass line forces the wrong chords on the melody for about half of it. But, hey, it got our attention and that's probably what GM had in mind. 
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Oh jeez, that is disturbing. Yes, maybe a copyright thing, I don't know.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote MrTim Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Dec 2019 at 6:15am
No, they'd still get sued for their version being too close to the original.  More like it's some dooshy hipster take on the song...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Dec 2019 at 4:02pm
Well, per Wikipedia, the song was first performed by some guy in blackface. Therefore, the song is racist and must be banned!

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^ LOL

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Originally posted by aka ron aka ron wrote:

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I JUST noticed this last night, saw the ad again a few minutes ago. (I try to tune out this BS)
But yes, why does it drive me nuts....how the Jingle Bells ending is looped for 3/4 of the commercial. It actually becomes slightly annoying. 

Pure junk, like any GM cars. Most likely from the same idiots that brought us "Cadillac - 'Everybody Has a Crew" ad,  --- NO, I don't personally have a f'ing crew, entourage, posse....whatever you wanna call it! DeadConfused






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Thank You for posting these condemnations of the "Cadillac Season's Best Sales Event TV Commercial."

The music for the "Cadillac Season's Best Sales Event TV Commercial" is an absolute abomination! The thought that some advertising agency made a healthy profit by putting together a piece of excrement such as this commercial is as enraging as it disheartening. If the advertiser's goal was to rub our noses in excrement, then they succeeded. if their goal was to sell automobiles to people whose intelligence is so low that it can't be insulted, then I guess they succeeded again.
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I'm surprised to see I'm not the only one who hates the Cadillac commercial playing
gingle bells and getting the last three notes WRONG !   "one horse sleigh". It grates
on me for some reason.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jimmy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Dec 2019 at 12:10am
I detest this ad, I have to hit the mute button as soon as it begins. I also hate the GMC ad with the yuppy couple and thier his and hers HUGE pick-up trucks. 
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I hate it!!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote HART Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Dec 2020 at 9:31pm
SEASONS BEATINGS

somehow i feel like the Xmas ads were not as bad this year as ones previous 

sure there were repeat offenders, we all know that 

Is it possible this is the upside of the covid 19 thing 

aside from Trivago Tim being mostly absent  Sleepy

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we are the dreamers of the dream
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