OPEN LETTER TO VERIZON, TOMMY HILFIGER & HONDA

[as submitted by littleloser@angryloser.com]

To the visionaries who turned Madness's Our House into Jingle Bells for Verizon's winter campaign, I ask you: what's with the jingle singers' poncey British accents? I hate you so much more for that.

Keeping with the theme, Tommy Hilfiger and Honda, how about negotiating some exclusivity when selecting a reasonably hip band's uber-commercial, non-denominational, feel-good anthem for your ads? Vampire Weekend now makes me feel like plastic, and I can't separate buying a Honda Civic from fashionably Interracial brand-whoring yuppiness. Moreover, Tommy, your Wes Anderson-esque coloring and costuming confuse me.

As for you, Honda, your ad was more or less forgettable. Though I recall thinking it might have been for Blue Navy, and that I didn't want to hear the Holiday song anymore. Sort of lose-lose.