Comments on: Specsavers – 2 for 1 Glasses – Edith Piaf

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By: milly cummings

milly cummings — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:46:21 +0000

I do not find this amusing at all and would not buy from Specsavers after viewing the advert.
It is insulting and demeaning to this classic song which was performed with such depth and feeling.
All I can assume is that some neanderthal ad person with a very poor education came up with the idea.
Or there is a more disturbing conclusion – that a very clever ad person thinks that the nation is so full of philistines and lacking in cultivation that the idea was bound to work.
I regret my conclusion is the latter.

By: PIFLover

PIFLover — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:54:36 +0000

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.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:35:16 +0000

Anyone seen the latest one using Thunderbirds, oh dear!

By: Pete The Pedant

Pete The Pedant — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:56:44 +0000

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?

By: Mike Empuria

Mike Empuria — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:42:23 +0000

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!

By: Entity

Entity — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:33:23 +0000

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

By: Silky

Silky — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:12:59 +0000

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

By: Mike Empuria

Mike Empuria — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:24:04 +0000

I’m impressed your newborn could hum!

By: Silky

Silky — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:08:16 +0000

@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!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:58:24 +0000

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

By: Mike Empuria

Mike Empuria — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:01:54 +0000

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

By: Jonny Chestwig

Jonny Chestwig — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:35:43 +0000

“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!

By: Silky

Silky — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:31:52 +0000

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!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:17:48 +0000

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.