Yes I'm let loose from the noose...
The first time I watched it, I thought it was kinda clever.
The second time it came on TV, I was able to watch it closer.
The third time, I was getting a bit annoyed (especially since all three were within less than a 36-hour period).
The fourth time, I realized just how much this commercial creeps me out.
The fifth time, I decided it was time to swear off both Audrey Hepburn movies and AC/DC music.
Have you all seen the new commercial for The Gap's "Skinny Black Pants" that features a pseudo mash-up of Audrey Hepburn dancing to AC/DC's "Back in Black"?
Like I said, the first time it was cool just to see how well they timed it out so her movements jived with the beat of the song. Now, however, I literally am creeped out by it. I can't watch it anymore. It's just too much to take.
But, of course, yesterday, Katie and I were picking up a giftcard at The Gap as a baby shower gift and we saw the ads all over the store as well. Just not cool.
Here, see for yourself. Hopefully, this embed works...
If not, just click over here.
I'm off to the gym. Oh yeah... go Bears! Trounce the Detroit Kitty Cats!
That commmercial comes on way too often. It has annoyed me since the first time I saw it.
Posted by: Dagny | Sunday, 17 September 2006 at 09:24 AM
I never even liked the scene in the movie it's from, and I hate the commercial. I can't even put my finger on why it sparks such feelings of revulsion in me. Very odd.
Posted by: Tracy Lynn | Sunday, 17 September 2006 at 10:08 AM
I go into surf-mode when this commercial comes on. It's not that I don't love Audrey, ACDC, or the GAP...it's just that they have NO BUSINESS being lumped together. Leave it to the the GAP to give us yet another painfully awkward commerical so that we can once again be reminded what big sell outs they are.
Old Navy, on the other hand, embraces the fact that it's sold out and is thus free to make the most ri-cock-ulious adds ever. Some of which I actually enjoy. You'd think that since both companies (and Banana Republic) are owned by the same Corp. that there would be some recognitiono of this fact. Guess not.
Posted by: Dustin | Sunday, 17 September 2006 at 05:00 PM
I don't have a tv at home, but I caught a glimpse of it yesterday at Steven's. I must say, first I was intrigued. But now that I watch it again, I can see how it would be annoying if you saw it over and over and over again.
Posted by: kilax | Sunday, 17 September 2006 at 05:20 PM
I loathe this commercial. I cannot for the life of me understand why her estate licensed her image for this.
Posted by: francesdanger | Sunday, 17 September 2006 at 11:50 PM
Dagny, I still dug it the first time. But ever since... blech!
Tracy Lynn, which movie is it from? I don't remember this scene.
Dustin, "ri-cock-ulous"? I like it.
kilax, and that's exactly what has been happening. The damn commercial is all over the place.
francesdanger, I've been trying to figure that one out as well.
Posted by: kapgar | Monday, 18 September 2006 at 06:46 AM
I've never seen that before. Why does it creep you out?
Posted by: Jacquie | Monday, 18 September 2006 at 07:15 AM
Ugh, I HATE that commercial. Cheapening Audrey Hepburn by using her in a Gap commercial? Capital offense.
Posted by: Karl | Monday, 18 September 2006 at 09:50 AM
Jacquie, I can't quite nail down why it bugs me so much. But after seeing it a half dozen times in a few hours, I just can't take it. My skin crawls.
Karl, it should be. Punishable by lethal ass kicking.
Posted by: kapgar | Monday, 18 September 2006 at 10:00 AM
bizarre...i'd not seen this commercial until last night, but I had the same reaction as you - icky. and sad.
and audrey hepburn was just way too skinny...
Posted by: suze | Monday, 18 September 2006 at 10:40 AM
ugh.. I am so tired of seeing that commercial. I had no idea what was even going on with it until like the 110th time I seen it.. LOL!
Posted by: Debbie | Monday, 18 September 2006 at 10:52 AM
Seems like nobody likes this commercial. While I was intriguied the first time, after the millionth time now it's just obnoxious. All of that moving and dancing gives me a headache. I need to go take a long nap.
Posted by: Elaine | Monday, 18 September 2006 at 11:21 AM
Suze, I never realized just how skinny she was until recently. Katie and I watched "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and discovered just what a rail she is. She was much prettier and appeared healthier in "Roman Holiday."
Debbie, it would've been better to never know.
Elaine, have you read other blogs lambasting it? I'd love to read them. Or is this just based on the comments here?
Posted by: kapgar | Monday, 18 September 2006 at 02:02 PM
First time I've seen that. They don't have the Gap down here, anyway. Somehow, I don't think AC/DC would have been something Audrey would have been dancing to anyway.
Posted by: Shannon | Monday, 18 September 2006 at 04:19 PM
Yeah, I somehow doubt it as well. Just be happy you don't have to be subjected to it down there. You're lucky.
Posted by: kapgar | Tuesday, 19 September 2006 at 06:47 AM
You know, I have to agree with you all the way on this one. The first time I saw it, I was in awe. And as always, happy to hear one of "My Songs" on TV. But then they just bombarded us with this damn commerical, til I was sick of it AND creeped out by it. I can't wait until skinny black is out again!
Posted by: Eve | Wednesday, 20 September 2006 at 10:34 PM
Eve, what was funny was when we were actually in The Gap and Katie looked at the pants for kicks. She said there's no way anybody other than Nicole Richie could ever fit in them. I laughed.
Posted by: kapgar | Thursday, 21 September 2006 at 06:57 AM
Katie is right. And as I said, Audrey, at that time, was five-foot-seven-inches tall, and weighed one hundred and ten pounds SOAKING WET. And I looked it up, and though I'm not sure of the infallibility of my internet source, the figure given for that body type among American women is TWO PERCENT. You're talking a size "0" or MAYBE a "2" there.
I am 5'7" myself. At my most crack-a-lacking, brick-house, healthy, fit, traffic-stopping body type ever, I weighed between 135 and 140 pounds. Those were the days that strange men would stop me in airports, etc., and compliment my body out of the blue. It was creepy, but powerful, because I had, for years since graduating college, lamented the weight gain that happened there (I went in at 120 pounds as a freshman--I did not stop traffic at that time).
So yeah, I'm with Katie, and paraphrase JenB (jenandtonic): Skinny Black Pants, you may go on without me. I'll be fine. It's not you, it's me. Actually, no, it's you. But just go.
Posted by: Belinda | Monday, 09 October 2006 at 12:52 PM
Tell jenandtonic that line is fantastic! Gap is evil. But they have cool sweatshirts.
Posted by: kapgar | Monday, 09 October 2006 at 01:03 PM