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What's the one thing worse than Duffy's Diet Coke ad?

  • March 11, 2009
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We'll tell you. It's this video of Duffy's Diet Coke ad — an ad so bad that it's made the singer a music industry laughing stock — being analysed and picked apart by a pro­ces­sion of directors, 'creatives', strategists and Duffy herself.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFiQF1QxHm8

It's almost inex­cus­ably horrific and is, of course, amazing and hilarious for that very reason — they could chuck on a laughter track and submit it to Comic Relief for this Friday's live show.

Never mind the fact that the whole thing revolves around a pop per­son­al­ity so dull that she makes Rachel Stevens sound like Courtney Love — our favourite bit is Duffy saying, with reference to Diet Coke's 'brand values', that "it's improtant to be selective about things that you want to do … it's about encour­aging women to take control and say 'no'".

It's odd, isn't it, Duffy, because most female musicians — empowered or otherwise — would indeed have said 'no' to appearing in this toe-curling marketing circle-jerk.

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