{"id":286,"date":"2010-04-22T16:04:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=286"},"modified":"2010-04-22T16:04:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:04:35","slug":"well_thats_not_going_to_bring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2010\/04\/well_thats_not_going_to_bring\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, That&#8217;s Not Going to Bring Sexy Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Now, I know there&#8217;s that saying about how the only bad publicity is no publicity. And isn&#8217;t making orchestral performance <i>just another part of American life<\/i> on the list of how we are going to save classical music? But still, if the older woman + Depend undergarments + symphony set-up doesn&#8217;t make you cringe, just wait for the &#8220;magic wand&#8221; line. Between that and an inability to operate the complex mechanics of a music stand, this spot may have just set the perception of women conductors back 30 years in 30 seconds. <\/p>\n<p>Of course it&#8217;s great that products like this exist so that people with certain medical conditions can maintain active lives without stress and embarrassment, but really Depend, did you need to pin your marketing angle on an industry already fighting to build up sex appeal and play down the aging audience factor? Oh, yeah, I guess I see how that could happen&#8230;Shh, make sure the Cialis people don&#8217;t get wind of this.<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"304\" width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KxiEd3P5PcI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KxiEd3P5PcI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"304\" width=\"500\"><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, I know there&#8217;s that saying about how the only bad publicity is no publicity. And isn&#8217;t making orchestral performance just another part of American life on the list of how we are going to save classical music? But still, if the older woman + Depend undergarments + symphony set-up doesn&#8217;t make you cringe, just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}