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November 9, 2005

Cat Power's Commercial Success

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

Posted by: alec at 11/09/05 7:01 PM | Reply
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I almost crapped myself with pride before I remembered that I don't direct music videos, and that's not my name anyway.

Posted by: Lance McCord at 11/09/05 7:08 PM | Reply
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Lance Acord is the cinematographer for Spike Jonze and Sofia Coppola - http://imdb.com/name/nm0010139/

Posted by: mike at 11/09/05 7:57 PM | Reply
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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.

Posted by: Ben at 11/09/05 9:37 PM | Reply
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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.

Posted by: Adrian at 11/10/05 12:11 AM | Reply
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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.

Posted by: John at 11/10/05 3:54 AM | Reply
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Blondie does it better.

Posted by: sfsdsaf at 11/10/05 8:40 AM | Reply
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Aww, my aunt works for BBDO Atlanta. I think they've been handling Cingular since the beginning.

Posted by: Meredith at 11/10/05 10:50 AM | Reply
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Scott, man, you crashed Bisbee's server! The page with the Cingular ad has been removed.

Posted by: Frank in Atlanta at 11/10/05 1:08 PM | Reply
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cat power's version of "somewhere" for tiaa-cref is also great. the commercial is up on the ad agency's website: 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.

Posted by: durrrrr at 11/10/05 3:05 PM | Reply
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check out Chan's cover of dylan's Path To Victory on the North Country sndtrk. heartbreaking.

Posted by: treeboy at 11/10/05 6:18 PM | Reply
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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...

Posted by: Lexie at 11/15/06 10:15 AM | Reply
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I just saw that commercial too, it's gotta be cat power.

Posted by: Julie at 11/16/06 12:29 AM | Reply
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Yeah, I saw it and also was not able to find a reference but it must be her. Great song for her to cover.

Posted by: Lauren at 11/20/06 8:04 PM | Reply
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A Diamond is Forever 2006 TV commercial "Xmas Morning" copy and paste on url bar:
http://www.youtube.com/v/gPODOUc8TRI

Posted by: janejane at 11/22/06 5:19 PM | Reply
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A Diamond is Forever 2006 TV commercial "Xmas Morning" copy and paste on url bar:
http://www.youtube.com/v/gPODOUc8TRI

Posted by: janejane at 11/22/06 5:23 PM | Reply
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A Diamond is Forever 2006 TV commercial "Xmas Morning" copy and paste on url bar:
http://www.youtube.com/v/gPODOUc8TRI

Posted by: janejane at 11/22/06 5:26 PM | Reply
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A Diamond is Forever 2006 TV commercial "Xmas Morning" copy and paste on url bar:
http://www.youtube.com/v/gPODOUc8TRI

Posted by: janejane at 11/22/06 5:26 PM | Reply
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A Diamond is Forever 2006 TV commercial "Xmas Morning" copy and paste on url bar:
http://www.youtube.com/v/gPODOUc8TRI

Posted by: janejane at 11/22/06 5:27 PM | Reply
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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

Posted by: Maddie at 11/22/06 7:59 PM | Reply
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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

Posted by: Maddie at 11/22/06 7:59 PM | Reply
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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

Posted by: Maddie at 11/22/06 8:00 PM | Reply
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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 '

Posted by: Rebecca at 11/30/06 10:39 AM | Reply
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