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DANCE BREAK:

By my own rules I am not supposed to be Christmas-y until the day after Thanksgiving, BUT THEN GAP OUTDID THEMSELVES WITH THEIR 2008 ADS AND I HAD TO. HAD TO. (ALTHOUGH, okay, I'm also feeling oddly chatty and just felt like posting? HI!!) It is so many things I love about the holiday season: cute sweaters, dorky dancing, sooooongs, and glee. Also if you, like me, listened to this and thought "WHY DO I NOT HAVE AN AWESOME HIP HOPPY VERSION OF JINGLE BELLS ANYWHERE IN MY ITUNES???" there is a just plain Trey & Flo version, AND I WILL FIGURE OUT HOW TO RIP IT, SOMEHOW.

Tomorrow I am going to buy myself candles. Lots and lots of delicious smelling candles. Also sheet music. Except knowing my penchant for procrastination, I will still be saying this a week from now :(

P.S. FUN UNRELATED FACT: The Christmas classic "Baby, It's Cold Outside" originates from a crappy Esther Williams swimming movie from the 50s (I think it was the 50s?) that has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HOLIDAYS AT ALL.

Comments

[thecolorbetween.livejournal.com]

Nothing will ever beat the old school Gap commercials of the late '90s/early '00s (the West Side Story ones, OH MY GOD), but I love this one! I saw it a few days ago and was definitely smiling gleefully the whole time.

And the Trey Songz and Flo Rida one is WAY COOL, I agree. And I like that one girl with the funky hair in the argyle sweater.

Also, HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLO. Also, I am totally with you on no Christmas music 'til post-Thanksgiving. But sometimes I can't resist!

[elapses.livejournal.com]

Nothing will ever beat the old school Gap commercials of the late '90s/early '00s
Oh I know! But they try every year and I love them for it. Still, people who complain about how annoying all the Christmas commercials are silly, I WILL SUFFER THROUGH THE SAME FERRERO ROCHER COMMERCIAL EVERY YEAR IF MEANS I GET THINGS LIKE THIS.

You mean Janelle Monáe! SHE IS FABULOUS, I love her voice.

But after Thanksgiving everything about ~the season~ sort of aligns and it's just SO MUCH BETTER THEN. I don't think you can be completely in the right mood before all the storefronts are decorated.

[thecolorbetween.livejournal.com]

They've had some good ones! The Claire Danes/Patrick Wilson one? Adorable. I mean, hello, it is Patrick Wilson. Dancing. (But Sandra Bernhard seems so random in this one. The part where Trey Songz and Flo Rida go, "I wanna wish you a happy Christmas."/"Merry?"/"Merry Christmas!" is just so happppppppy.)

I'll have to check out some of her other stuff. I do like her voice.

I miss being in NYC during the holiday season, right before all the tourists rush in. I mean, it gets Christmas-y here, but it's not the same.

[adinfinitum.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD. GAP. STOP BEING AMAZING IN EVERY WAY. I am staunchly opposed to getting Christmasy before the day after Thanksgiving, BUT NOW I HAVE TO MAKE AN EXCEPTION AND SEND THIS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND POST IT ON MY FACEBOOK IMMEDIATELY. Howwwwwwwwwww are their commercials/ad campaigns always so amazing? HOW?

(ARGH, I'm seriously regretting deleting my Amy Poehler/Will Arnett icon from last year's holiday ads!)

[elapses.livejournal.com]

THERE ARE FIVE MORE!!!!! IT'S LIKE A MINEFIELD OF CHRISTMAS DELIGHT. Even though it's only November 16th :/

[adinfinitum.livejournal.com]

I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO IT!

[lunapluvia.livejournal.com]

By my own rules I am not supposed to be Christmas-y until the day after Thanksgiving, BUT THEN GAP OUTDID THEMSELVES WITH THEIR 2008 ADS AND I HAD TO.

WORD THE HARDCORE.

Hip-hop jingle bells is the bestest of the best. Better than indie holiday music.

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Hip-hop jingle bells is the bestest of the best. Better than indie holiday music.
I AM TOTALLY 100% IN AGREEMENT. It's like indie holiday music is 10 on a awesome scale of 1 to 10, but then hip-hop jingle bells busts some moves and steals an 11.

[lunapluvia.livejournal.com]

You can try http://flvto.com/ to get an mp3 of some mad hops. I know it'll work with youtube vids but not sure about the gap.com only ones.

[jenaben.livejournal.com]

In Canada our Thanksgiving is before Halloween, so stores have been Christmasing themselves out since November 1st over here. That does not make me love this Gap ad ANY LESS though, because I adooore all the GOOD christmasy things (remixed songs! ads like this one! etc!). AND I LOVE THAT HIP HOPPY VERSION SO MUCH.

[elapses.livejournal.com]

Stores here do it too, I was on the outdoor mall here on election day and they were stringing the trees with holiday lights. But it always feels weirdly out of place until December. BUT STILL, it must be strange to live in a non-North American country where there is no Thanksgiving cue for when it is time to usher in the holiday season?

ME TOO, OH MY GOD. What was my life before hip hoppy jingle bells? I CANNOT RECALL.

[goldenmelisande.livejournal.com]

GAP CHRISTMAS ADS MAKE MY LIFE 100% MORE DELIGHTFUL.

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YOU & ME & THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD, MY FRIEND.

[goldenmelisande.livejournal.com]

I ESPECIALLY LIKE HOW THEY ALWAYS PUT ABOUT SIX OF THE PRINT ADS IN A ROW IN MAGAZINES, SO THE JOY IS PROLONGED. AND THEY ALWAYS FEATURE CELEBRITIES WITH THEIR CUTE CHILDREN.

[heylabodega.livejournal.com]

OMG THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS OUT INTO THE UNIVERSE. I love Christmas so much, and like you I have the not-until-after-Thanksgiving rule, but that's only because I overdo it on Christmas cheer from the day after until December 25th, so if you think I won't be playing this a bazillion times, you're wrong. Also, I love the Gap and their ads and their stupid expensive adorable stripy scarves and sweaters.

For the record, when I post my holiday cheer to come post shortly in the future, I'm not copying you. Shut up. You were copying me. In the future. Or something. You see what Christmas does to my brain? All I was going to say was that this video rocks my socks.

[elapses.livejournal.com]

I instigated my not-until-after-Thanksgiving rule for the EXACT SAME REASON. AND YES, GAP. Every year I want every last one of their $60 sweaters, and almost every year I talk myself out of all of them and go to Old Navy instead :,(

THIS ALSO COUNTS AS MY PRE-EMPTIVE "omg u stole my poast!!!!!!" COMMENT.

[dorasolo.livejournal.com]

ROMANY MALCO!!!!!! AND JASON BIGGS!!!! AND JON HEDER!!!! AND RAINN WILSON!!! AND FLO'RIDA!!!! WOOOOOOO ILU GAP.

Also they give me paychecks.

[elapses.livejournal.com]

SO MANY WONDERFUL PEOPLE ALL IN ONE PLAAAAAACE!!! Do you know Janelle Monae??? BECAUSE YOU SHOULD. Although it has actually just occured to me that I don't know a lot about your music taste.

Is Banana Republic the only Gap company that doesn't do jolly Christmas commercials, or do I have a selective memory?

[whalelines.livejournal.com]

serenity by jan candles, i hope!

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HOW COULD I RESIST THE SWEET SMELL OF BLUE JEANS?

[just-float.livejournal.com]

Does that mean all that business about staying for another drink and basically forcing the girl to stay and do naughty things because it's "cold outside" had none of the holiday cheer to make up for its rapist wit?

Hahahahha I still LOOVE that song thx to Zooey and Will in Elf. IT WILL ALWAYS BE A XMAS SONG IN MY HEART!

[elapses.livejournal.com]

NOPE! It is pure, unadulterated, date rapey charm.

[loveshaked.livejournal.com]

Rainn! Jason! So awesome :D

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OH MAN, I KNOW!

[allibabab.livejournal.com]

HOW MUCH DO I LOVE THAT THIS WORLD IS COMING TO A PLACE WHERE RAINN WILSON GETS TO SHARE A STAGE WITH TREY SONGZ AND FLO RIDA. NERDS AND (SEMI?) RAPPERS COMING TOGETHER, PEOPLE. I LOVE IT.

And the Dixie Chicks! Nice, Gap! Maybe you could put in a good word for them on, I don't know, every country station in the entire country.