Three Recent Christmas Commercials

I have written regularly on this blog about vintage Christmas commercials, and they are generally decades old. Despite this, there are still quality Christmas commercials being made, with a few each year that stand out. Here are three that are somewhat memorable for me. 

The first is actually ten years, The "Say Sorry" spot for Temptations treats for cats proved popular when it came out in November 2015. The commercial features unfortunate felines who have been dressed up in holiday costumes by their humans, with the song "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" by Elton John playing in the background. I have never dressed up my cats, but I have known people who have, and the poor cats always look miserable. For that reason, this commercial always resonated with me.



I have to confess that I am not particularly a fan of fast fashion, as it has too many environmental consequences for me to be entirely comfortable with it. Regardless, I do like this spot from 2022 for H&M. That year H&M had a marketing campaign centred around a fictional Parisian restaurant called Brasserie Hennes (the full name of H&M being H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB). For the holidays in 2022, Brasserie Hennes was, in the words of H&M's promotional material, "transformed into a disco-inspired snowscape for the holidays." Here I have to point out that the song playing in the commercial is not a disco song, but Linda Scott's version of "I've Told Ev'ry Little Star" set to a disco beat. The song goes back to 1932 musical Music in the Air and was written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. In 1961, Linda Scott recorded her version, which reached no. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. If some of the people in the commercial look familiar, it is because the ad features Anderson Paak, Chloe Sevigny, model Jill Kortleve, and others. This commercial resonated with me because it came out while I had and then recovered from Covid, and I liked the arrangement of "I've Told Ev'ry Little Star," not to mention the winter-themed imagery.

This is the most recent of the commercials I am posting. I have to confess, I like this commercial not so much because of the imagery (which more or less looks like every other jewellery commercial), but instead because of the song. It is "Dreamy Lady" by T. Rex. The song was released as a single in 1975. It did not do particularly well as T. Rex songs go, only peaking at no. 30 on the UK singles chart. Obviously, the song has nothing to do with Christmas, but it does fit a jewellery commercial.