Posted on 06/21/2007 4:34:03 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
In these super high-speed internet days of ours it doesn't take long for something to become iconic - and even less time for someone like Hillary Clinton to joylessly jump on the bandwagon, kick the fun out of it and then expect votes in return.
What are we talking about? The newly iconic final scene of The Sopranos, that's what. The Sopranos finale had it all - tension, mystique, cheese-rock power ballads, bad driving - and, most of all, it was pretty much perfect for Hillary Clinton to spoof on her website as a way to announce the winner of her recent campaign song competition. Anyone visiting the official Hillary Clinton website can now be treated to the sight of Bill and Hillary Clinton doing a slightly confused run-through of the last ever Sopranos scene, complete with obligatory blackout ending. And the Sopranos video has been a success, too - so much so that hardly anyone has realised that the winner of the song competition was effing Celine Dion yet.
It's interesting to see the different ways in which the internet has changed the way politicians try and score votes, It used to just be that you needed to put on a smart suit, kiss a baby or two and announce a list of intelligent policies that people think will make their lives better. Now, thanks mainly to broadband, all politicians need to do is 'connect' with the voters by twatting about on YouTube every now and again.
Earlier this week a song about how sexy Barack Obama is appeared on YouTube and instantly made him more popular than if he'd done a thousand of his tiresome Hollywood fundraisers, while the Republican hopefuls… well, who knows what those guys have been up to. But anyway, the pack-leader when it comes to wanking about like a dickhead on the internet is Hillary Clinton. Just recently Hillary Clinton hit upon the idea that she should let the people choose her new campaign song. Which song would soundtrack Hillary's presidential shot? U2? KT Tunstall? Smash Mouth? Gwar? Thanks to the internet, Hillary could let you decide.
And now the votes are in - but Hillary Clinton couldn't just announce the winner like a normal person. No, instead one of her strategic team decided that it'd be far better if Hillary revealed the winner by spoofing the final scene of The Sopranos. That's the same final scene of The Sopranos that everyone hated and not even the stars of The Sopranos understood, by the way. And here's how it turned out…
OMG! A black screen! What could it all mean? Did the guy in the toilet come out and shoot Hillary Clinton in the face? Were all the other diners in the restaurant a reflection of all the people Hillary Clinton has wronged in the past? We've been researching this Hillary Clinton Sopranos video and, almost a year ago, Hillary Clinton said in one of her speeches that when you die, everything just goes black. And then everything stops going black and you end up lumbered with You And I by bloody Celine Dion as your campaign song. It's roughly this moment that you realise you're in hell.
But, still, it's good to see the way that Hillary Clinton has embraced the power of the internet to push her message across. That message seems to be 'Although I'm too busy being a politician to know a lot about popular culture, I'm at least willing to pretend I do if it means you people will make me president.'
And the video of Hillary Clinton spoofing the ending of The Sopranos has been so overwhelmingly popular that Hillary plans to carry on doing send-ups of popular internet videos for the rest of her campaign. In August we'll be able to see Hillary Clinton dressed as a toddler screaming "I want my money, bitch!" and "You pay now!" at a confused Bill Clinton in an afro, followed in November by a video of Hillary Clinton attacking her computer while roaring "eat your melted shit!" at it in German.
Uhm, NO they haven't. What a bunch of morons they are.
I never watched the Sopranos, but from what I have heard I thought it was the Clinton’s Biography,severely edited of course, to give them the appearance of having a smidgen of class and compassion.
LOL! What I love about this is the irony that just like the Soprano family, the Clintons are criminals! HAHA!!
so, the Littlerock Mafia likes the Jersey Mafia....Madonne, who cares.
They are coming right out and comparing themselves to a crime family.Nice symbolism.
She thought living in Arkansas was bad, now she wants to live in Joysy?
i tried to remain objective and upbeat about this commercial. after all, i am not in the mood for campaigning yet.
but i just watched it a second time and i just have to comment. this ad sucks big time for so many reasons.
1. hillary is dressed professionally; bill looks like a shlump. obviously she's the professional and he's the casual, relaxed bubba boy. this indicates disrespect for males. the woman is in charge. she knows what she's doing. he doesn't.
2.the carrots on the table. she says authoritatively, "i ordered for the table," looks over with a WISE and superior nod. he whines, "no onion rings?" she says, "just lookin' out for you." again, we see the obvious connection with the nation. we can just imagine the superior schoolmarm with that "i know better than you" attitude, looking down her nose at the rest of us regarding health care, military action, higher taxes, school reform, etc. THERE WILL BE NO ONION RINGS ON HILLARY'S WATCH.
3. they're terrible phony actors. the music is the only thing that carries the action.
4. the song sucks BIG TIME. it is written and sung by a canadian.
5. the song is not inspiring. it conveys all the fears we have about hillary....the fear that she, the flying hawk, will scoop us all up into her claws and take us places we DON"t want to go, but we won't be able to help it because we are only the little "you" of the you and IIIIIIIIII of the song.
6. the song is an older chick song. once again, its choice conveys that the opinions of men are not needed or wanted.
7. overall, i'd say this commercial stinks.
Wasn’t the Sopranos patterned after the Clintons?
A make believe President for a very real war on terror. Ummmm??? I don’t like those odds.
I’ve never seen the Sopranos either, but the only thing I could imagine when I heard about the computer was Hillary and Bill planning hits on people like Vince Foster or Webster Hubbell. It doesn’t seem to well thought out as far as image goes. But then I am surprised that so many of my liberal friends are crazy about the Sopranos when it is such a violent show.
good ananlysis.
Genius in what? It wasn't original, it was a ripoff of the ending of the Sopranos, that most people thought was stupid! (except the critics of course. Fade to black ending is genius...to an idiot.) No message! No humor! And the REAL ironic part of it, there was no chemistry between either of them! That was the most telling of their lie of a marrage!
I was that bimbo on FOX and Friends in the morning that said it. I can’t think of her name.
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