Sunday night during the Grammys, HP introduced the world to its riff of Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” in it’s new ad. Needless to say, it’s not going to be a hit.
HP decided to take the classic song of rebellion and replace the lyrics about cross dressing and sexing and drugging up with lyrics about tweeting, skyping, printing, and fragging. Not surprisingly, the ad didn’t receive many praising comments for the song choice on the HP computers YouTube page. Examples: “worst commercial of all time?” “Way to bastardize an amazing song. Way to turn me off of your products even more.” and “Wow, i actually cringed at this.”
Honestly, the ad itself is actually kind of good, but what were they thinking choosing to butcher the lyrics to that song? Plus, they probably had to hand over a pretty heavy chunk of change for the right to it. Way to go, HP. Looks like “Everybody On” turned “Everybody off.”
Check out the ad after the jump!
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