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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I've got a pet peeve of spotting French ads using English language songs that they would never think of using if most people listened to and/or understood the lyrics.

Some examples :

A car manufacturer using the same song for decades, Johnny and Mary. Hard to tell who the song is really about, but it's clearly about a broken, quite unhappy and mentally unstable couple.

A big mart chain using Prayer in C in its happy, "let's be optimistic" clips.

And see the children are starving / And their houses were destroyed / Don't think they could forgive you

Hey, when seas will cover lands / And when men will be no more / Don't think you can forgive you

A perfume ad with Sia's Chandelier blaring out. Yeah, suicide by booze, definitely what I want to feel classy.