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Mar. 25th, 2009
The Complaints Choir URL
Mar. 25th, 2009 08:04 pmI was tipped off by @jonk about the Complaints Choir of Helsinki. I watched, and it was hilarious.
I thought it was a one-off until I looked at the suggestions sidebar. There was one from Birmingham, UK, one in Chicago, but the best one I listened to was from Singapore!
As usual, I am the last one to hear of the Complaints Choir movement. There does seem to be one in London, but there's been no movement on the performance that I can see and there isn't any link to a YouTube video of it. I suppose we are just too British and polite to bother complaining.
The Singapore Complaints Choir was refused permission to perform in public unless all non-Singaporeans were barred from the Choir. As some will be aware, Singapore has become the home of many non-Singaporeans who do jobs ranging from housekeeper and nanny up to CEO of the national sovereign wealth fund. But, since those people were barred from performing publicly, the entire choir decided that it would perform in private, tape the performance, and put it up on teh intarwebs, where the Singapore gahmen couldn't ban it. It's really funny (to those who live there or who have some knowledge of Singapore) and the back story makes it even more poignant. Do watch it—I've embedded it below.
I thought it was a one-off until I looked at the suggestions sidebar. There was one from Birmingham, UK, one in Chicago, but the best one I listened to was from Singapore!
As usual, I am the last one to hear of the Complaints Choir movement. There does seem to be one in London, but there's been no movement on the performance that I can see and there isn't any link to a YouTube video of it. I suppose we are just too British and polite to bother complaining.
The Singapore Complaints Choir was refused permission to perform in public unless all non-Singaporeans were barred from the Choir. As some will be aware, Singapore has become the home of many non-Singaporeans who do jobs ranging from housekeeper and nanny up to CEO of the national sovereign wealth fund. But, since those people were barred from performing publicly, the entire choir decided that it would perform in private, tape the performance, and put it up on teh intarwebs, where the Singapore gahmen couldn't ban it. It's really funny (to those who live there or who have some knowledge of Singapore) and the back story makes it even more poignant. Do watch it—I've embedded it below.
Unsettling
Mar. 25th, 2009 09:47 pmI've occasionally mentioned "Singapore Alex" here. I've known him for more than 12 years now, ever since he showed up in the UK. In the interim he's graduated from UCL, gained UK citizenship (and renounced Singaporean citizenship), formed a civil partnership with Bob, his partner of umpteen years, and decided to take up acting. He's been in a Christmas panto (at which I graced myself by being flip to the performers) and he often turns up in ads. He was in last Christmas's ITV offering "Clash of the Santas" playing the Japanese Santa (as a Chinese man he always gets the Oriental parts, even though he doesn't particularly look Japanese...).
A new Aviva ad (Aviva is the new name of Norwich Union Insurance) shows a long line of people "returning" to Aviva and being greeted on their return. Lo and behold, Alex is in the queue (he's the one who steps up to the greeter just before the ad switches to the message) and gets a bit more face time because of that.
Every time I see this ad on TV, instead of thinking "Oh, I must go out and buy some Aviva insurance!" I think, "Gee, there's Alex!" and forget all about insurance.
It's lucky for advertising that people who do not know any of the actors outnumber those who do.
If I could find a YouTube of the ad, I'd place it here, but I think that Aviva hasn't updated their website (on which they have ads) since the end of last year. About time you joined Web 2.0 and kept things up to the second, Aviva!
A new Aviva ad (Aviva is the new name of Norwich Union Insurance) shows a long line of people "returning" to Aviva and being greeted on their return. Lo and behold, Alex is in the queue (he's the one who steps up to the greeter just before the ad switches to the message) and gets a bit more face time because of that.
Every time I see this ad on TV, instead of thinking "Oh, I must go out and buy some Aviva insurance!" I think, "Gee, there's Alex!" and forget all about insurance.
It's lucky for advertising that people who do not know any of the actors outnumber those who do.
If I could find a YouTube of the ad, I'd place it here, but I think that Aviva hasn't updated their website (on which they have ads) since the end of last year. About time you joined Web 2.0 and kept things up to the second, Aviva!