Fly Me Away is right on Target

I was watching my usual NBC Must See TV lineup last night and saw the Target holiday ad about 7 times. The song in the Target commercial is glittery UK duo Goldfrapp’s “Fly Me Away“. It’s whimsical and pretty and it works well with the rest of the ad’s lovely, white “Snow Princess meets Bullseye” look. I also can’t help but think of the Thompson Twins’ song “If You Were Here”, the  breathy singing and starry, Tinkerbell qualities are shared by both. You know the song I mean- it’s the one that plays while Molly Ringwald’s geeky, gawky Sam sits atop a glass dining room table with her hunk of a senior crush, Jake Ryan, at the end of Sixteen Candles. First of all, how you can sit without worry on top of a sheet of glass is beyond me. My mind’s eye can’t help but see the smashed, broken and bloody shards that would result after two adults climbed up there. BUT that’s just the worrywart in me that presides over everything I do. I’m sure John Hughes found a very stiff glass to work with.  It didn’t distract me from the plot in the slightest. Not. At. All.

The second tangent I’m going on with this is that Goldfrapp makes me hungry because in Massachusetts we call milkshakes “frappes”. It’s just another one of those regional adorabilities that separates the hoagies from the subs. The pop from the cola. The sprinkles from the jimmies.  A Gold Frappe would just be a really fancy, icy cold treat. And of course a White Gold Frappe would be vanilla flavored. And in case you ever meet a Masshole who is thirsty from having too many heavy frappes, please point us to the nearest bubbler. That’s drinking fountain to you Muggles. For more information about regional dialects, click here. See? We inform you about lots of real issues here at ANAWFOS, America is a melting pot of both commercials AND cultures and we seek diversity and tolerance among them both. I still totally hate that Dunkin’ Donuts “Karateeee” commercial though.