Cat Power’s Commercial Success

Nov 9th '05 by Scott Lapatine @ 6:25pm 26 Comments

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.

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Comments (26)

alec | Posted on Nov 9th, 2005 0

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

Lance McCord | Posted on Nov 9th, 2005 0

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

mike | Posted on Nov 9th, 2005 0

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

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.

alec | Posted on Nov 9th, 2005 0

karen o= http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=56514457&s=143441&i=56514467

Adrian | Posted on Nov 10th, 2005 0

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.

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.

sfsdsaf | Posted on Nov 10th, 2005 0

Blondie does it better.

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Meredith | Posted on Nov 10th, 2005 0

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

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.

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.

treeboy | Posted on Nov 10th, 2005 0

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

scott | Posted on Nov 10th, 2005 0

MP3 from the commercial:

http://itcameoutmagical.blogspot.com/2005/11/place-for-us.html

Lexie | Posted on Nov 15th, 2006 0

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…

Julie | Posted on Nov 16th, 2006 0

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

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.