13Responses:

• Dave

  March 26th, 2008 9:17 pm
  

  Don’t mind this ad, it’s quite funny, but Edith Piaf, Charles Aznovoice and Slasha D’smell proof if ever needed that the frogs just can’t sing.

• Silky

  March 26th, 2008 9:31 pm
  

  Whoa, whoa, whoa, Dave!

  Aznovoice and D’smell are fantastic singers. “She” anyone? “Thank ‘eaven for little giels” someone?

  Plus the French do have Air, Vanessa Paradise and Daft Punk.

  And let’s not forget the best European national anthem!

  Anyhoo, what I dislike most about this advert is how it completely steam rolls Piaf’s very personal and exceptionally moving classic to make it about not buying more than one pair of galsses.

  Shocking!

• Jonny Chestwig

  March 26th, 2008 10:35 pm
  

  “Best European National Anthem” I thin, Sir, that you are forgetting the Republic of Italy. The only anthem where it is acceptable to do a little jump at the end to conclude the jolly tune, ace!

• Mike Empuria

  March 27th, 2008 6:01 am
  

  Me like! Where else do you get to hear the Little Sparrow on TV these days?

• Dave

  March 27th, 2008 7:58 am
  

  Best anthem how about Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Alles, rousing stuff, fair makes you want to run off and invade Poland.

• Silky

  March 27th, 2008 2:08 pm
  

  @Jonny - I grant you I do like the “little jump at the end” bounce to the Italian anthem.

  @Dave - Christ! I think the German one may be even more of a dirge than ours but, strangely enough, humming it did help my son get to sleep when he was a newborn!

• Mike Empuria

  March 27th, 2008 2:24 pm
  

  I’m impressed your newborn could hum!

• Silky

  March 27th, 2008 3:12 pm
  

  What’s more impressive is the end the sound came from!

• Entity

  March 27th, 2008 11:33 pm
  

  Erm, how does an Edith Piaf song related to glasses in any way?

• Mike Empuria

  March 29th, 2008 6:42 am
  

  The song’s all about how she doesn’t regret anything that has happened in the past, both the good and the bad things that she’s done, because today her life and joys begin with the person she’s singing the song to.

  In the advert though she does have a regret; she should have gone to Specsavers!

• Pete The Pedant

  March 31st, 2008 9:56 pm
  

  Surely her biggest regret was dying?

  Sorry to be cynical but, I can’t believe I’m saying this, perhaps the song in the original French maybe wasn’t, no don’t laugh, maybe wasn’t about specs at all!!! Is it possible that they made it all up! Okay its a wacky off-the-wall idea. Oh those ad folk - crazy!

  Or could the translator have come from the same talent agency as the court artists used by TV news?

• Dave

  April 6th, 2008 5:35 pm
  

  Anyone seen the latest one using Thunderbirds, oh dear!

• PIFLover

  April 6th, 2008 10:54 pm
  

  She should have regretted recording that song. I know she’s considered a musical legend but “Je Ne Regrette Rien” just grates on my nerves like little else.

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