tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post8707347204834088672..comments2023-04-29T06:37:18.856-04:00Comments on Our God is Speed: TV Party Tonight (A Few Words from Our Sponsors)Greyhooshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14161781141733273715noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post-44922749950514890232012-07-10T10:40:05.540-04:002012-07-10T10:40:05.540-04:00Somehow I missed that one. Or if not, promptly for...Somehow I missed that one. Or if not, promptly forgot about it. <br /><br />And yeah, irony doesn't apply in many cases. The only reason I even mentioned it was because of that last clip. I believe it circulated back in 2000. The sense of irony, I thought, having to do something with: The use of "future music" which had by that point had outlived its futurity, and wondering what the target-marketing angle was supposed to be. But ultimately having more to do with Detroit itself and its fate in the wake of post-Fordism, with the presence of the robots in the commercial amounting to an unintentional morbid joke to that effect.Greyhooshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14161781141733273715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830563225783203492.post-20679799525762660502012-07-08T17:45:32.813-04:002012-07-08T17:45:32.813-04:00My personal favorite is the Subaru ad with the cut...My personal favorite is the Subaru ad with the cute little hockey playing triplets and the Pogues' "If I Should Fall From Grace With God." I don't even think I could apply the word irony to tht one.John B-Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991noreply@blogger.com