Finally found that Cingular spot with Chan Marshall’s lovely Nerves cover.

cingular “alone” (:60)
agency: bbdo atlanta
director: lance acord
music: “hanging on the telephone” written by jack lee, produced and arranged by sam bisbee, featuring CAT POWER on vocals

Watch it here.

Comments (26)
  1. alec  |   Posted on Nov 9th, 2005 0

    i actually like that ad. that cat power song is really good to. anyone have a link?

  2. I almost crapped myself with pride before I remembered that I don’t direct music videos, and that’s not my name anyway.

  3. mike  |   Posted on Nov 9th, 2005 0

    Lance Acord is the cinematographer for Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola – http://imdb.com/name/nm0010139/

  4. Ben  |   Posted on Nov 9th, 2005 0

    That’s beautiful. I wonder why she starts it on the 2nd verse? I really hope the audio to this gets released, a’la the Karen O Nike ad song.

  5. Cat Power also did one of those TIAA-CREF commercials where a bunch of different artists did versions of “Somewhere.” They used to have it on the TIAA-CREF site somewhere but they only have the currently running commercials now.

  6. John  |   Posted on Nov 10th, 2005 0

    Truly great commercial… And great song…

    Also, notice that there are the “bars” in almost every single scene. My favorite is the orange juice on the stewardess’ tray.

  7. sfsdsaf  |   Posted on Nov 10th, 2005 0

    Blondie does it better.

  8. Meredith  |   Posted on Nov 10th, 2005 0

    Aww, my aunt works for BBDO Atlanta. I think they’ve been handling Cingular since the beginning.

  9. Frank in Atlanta  |   Posted on Nov 10th, 2005 0

    Scott, man, you crashed Bisbee’s server! The page with the Cingular ad has been removed.

  10. durrrrr  |   Posted on Nov 10th, 2005 0

    cat power’s version of “somewhere” for tiaa-cref is also great. the commercial is up on the ad agency’s website: http://www.modernista.com if you go to the tiaa-cref section and click on tv, it’s the 7th out of 12.
    next up for her? a cover of j timb’s “i’m loving it”? gross.

  11. treeboy  |   Posted on Nov 10th, 2005 0

    check out Chan’s cover of dylan’s Path To Victory on the North Country sndtrk. heartbreaking.

  12. I just saw a commercial that has a cover of Cat Stevens’ “How Can I Tell You” that I’m sure must be by Cat Power. Problem is I can’t find a reference to it anywhere. Has anyone else seen it? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills…

  13. Julie  |   Posted on Nov 16th, 2006 0

    I just saw that commercial too, it’s gotta be cat power.

  14. Lauren  |   Posted on Nov 20th, 2006 0

    Yeah, I saw it and also was not able to find a reference but it must be her. Great song for her to cover.

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  20. Maddie  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2006 0

    I saw that commercial too! and I love the song and I am positive that it’s Cat Power but, like you said, I can’t find any proof! Let me know if you can find an mp3 or something
    -Maddie

  21. Maddie  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2006 0

    I saw that commercial too! and I love the song and I am positive that it’s Cat Power but, like you said, I can’t find any proof! Let me know if you can find an mp3 or something
    -Maddie

  22. Maddie  |   Posted on Nov 22nd, 2006 0

    I saw that commercial too! and I love the song and I am positive that it’s Cat Power but, like you said, I can’t find any proof! Let me know if you can find an mp3 or something
    -Maddie

  23. Rebecca  |   Posted on Nov 30th, 2006 0

    It is Cat Power, confirmed by De Beers, I spoke to her record label and there are no plans to release it. If you want maybe contact them direct and with enough pressure they may do it. Matador Records. – Song is ‘ How can I tell you ‘

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