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VW "The Power of Understatement"
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:01 am
by Jonathan
Anyone know the soundtrack from this ad that is running at the moment? The tagline is "The Power of Understatement" and features this successful 'high-flying' executive.
Cheers
Jonathan.
VW Song
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:28 am
by Jayemm
I saw this on TV last night. The song is 'The Great Pretender' but I don't know who is singing it.
I did wonder if it was Jarvis Cocker as he covered a James Bond song in a similar style, but I'm really not sure.
Dead on balls accurate about the title though!!
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:48 pm
by SIMONIRIS
Listening to it it sounds specially recorded for the ad, session musician type thing. I can't see that anyone would record it speculatively in that style. It would have had a b****y slim chance of it being spotted and I doubt it would have been a huge commercial success!
Try mailing the ad agency, DDB London, maybe they'll tell you?? They hate it I'm sure but hey-ho.
Ohh Yes! I'm the Great Pretender!
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:13 pm
by Jayemm
I found this on the VW website:
"The music is called 'The Great Pretender' produced by Adrian Sutton, based on the original by Buck Ram.
Hope this helps
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:32 pm
by SIMONIRIS
Adrian Sutton?! Dark horse!! Link to Adrian's MySpace page from mine (see CBAB profile)
Adrian Sutton
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 11:23 am
by Chris_H
Wandering slightly off-topic (if the moderators see fit to move my post into a new topic - feel free- I did search for a relevant post first!), Adrian Sutton did the music to the Nytol advert, called "Dreamland" (thanks for the links SIMONIRIS!)
Edit (Update): I did find a thread at
http://www.commercialbreaksandbeats.org ... php?t=2913 regarding the Nytol ad.
Adrian's website
http://www.adriansutton.com/ now points to his MySpace page - unfortunately the links on
http://www.adriansutton.com/wp-content/ ... nloads.php no longer seem to be working...