The Unfortunate Blurring Between Videos and Commercials

In a way, the blending of music videos and commercials is a facet of the "infotainment" concept which has overtaken the American mass media. With the music soundtrack and gratuitous displays of consumption, they are now basically indistinguishable; one cannot tell which is which. ***
Overall this is a negative trend. Music videos, once immensely enjoyable, have substantially diminished in value. At the same time, commercial advertisements (which are barely tolerable to begin with), having taken on the aspects of a video, have become marginally more enjoyable, thereby resulting in a net loss of general enjoyment. ***
On the other hand, this trend means that one is more at liberty to comment about about commercials in general discourse. As for recent car ads, I particularly like Mellencamp's "Our Country" series (the secret reason why the Colts won the Super Bowl), and the Presidents Day campaign which featured a quasi-crunk/dirrrty south re-mix of 'Hail to the Chief'
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The Chevy Silverado Commercial
Overall this is a negative trend. Music videos, once immensely enjoyable, have substantially diminished in value. At the same time, commercial advertisements (which are barely tolerable to begin with), having taken on the aspects of a video, have become marginally more enjoyable, thereby resulting in a net loss of general enjoyment. ***
On the other hand, this trend means that one is more at liberty to comment about about commercials in general discourse. As for recent car ads, I particularly like Mellencamp's "Our Country" series (the secret reason why the Colts won the Super Bowl), and the Presidents Day campaign which featured a quasi-crunk/dirrrty south re-mix of 'Hail to the Chief'
The Full Video
The Chevy Silverado Commercial
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