| | What is being mocked? Beer ads? Carl Orff's Carmina Burana? I am not a big fan of parodies, unless they have some point. Repainting a folly in extreme colors can serve a purpose, but what is the folly here?
Does anyone know P.D.Q. Bach's 1712 Overture? Tschaikowsky is pretty easy to like, with the long bowings, the romantic themes, the baroque counterpoints to keep your interest and all. It is very emotional music -- and it is very easy to criticize. Tschaikowsky's music is already a parody of romanticism. So, the 1712 Overture makes that point to anyone who needs it made.
Is that what this beer commercial is?
We only typically get only this choral crescendo from Carmina Burana. Does anyone know the entire piece well enough to criticise it? Or do we just write it off as kitch because it is excessive for the sake of excess?
Yes, I know, it is "just" a beer ad. Beers are so undifferentiable -- and yet so lucrative -- that there is no way to advertise them on their putative merits. That is another problem, entirely.
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