AUTHOR: Dave Sypniewski DATE: Thursday, August 18, 2005 ----- BODY: As the saying goes, "If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.", and let's just say that Burger King snuck it right past me unnoticed er, sort of. Heres the dope: I'm talking about those annoying commercials that Burger King has out now for their hot chicken fries or whatever they are. The ad has a guy wearing a chicken head and grunting and yelling to some really hard core metal song while inside a boxing ring while audience members mosh outside. This guy yells the words to the song which tells you to run over to BK for this new creation. The name of this group appears briefly in the bottom left of the screen as "Coq Roq."(above photo). I never heard of this group however, the music sounded ohhh, familiar?! I couldn't find anything about this group and forgot about it completely until today. During the past few weeks, the response to the group on TV has been off the charts and they have just launched a website...for this week anyway! It turns out that this is no band at all BUT, BK will lead you to believe it is. OK, these guys play in a band, but not together. BK has brought this motley crue of misfits together only for an ad campaign. This is really turning into a 21st century Monkees, where what started as a gag turned into a real band that made recording artists out of four guys that couldn't carry a tune. Well, not so fast boys. You just hit a big bump in the road that calls themselves, "Slipknot". A band that can thank Ozzy and "Ozzfest" for their success. Now, I'm not too familiar with The Knot and couldn't name a song if my life depended on it, but I knew I heard this before. So did "Slipknot" who not only recognized the music, but also saw that they were stealing the "visuals" of their act as the group jams while wearing wacky costumes. Not so smart your majesty. Today, the REAL group filed a lawsuit against BK and "Coq Roq". It looks like the band with the chicken as the singer is going to get it's wings clipped before the BK version has a chance to turn into something real...and quite frankly, that's OK with me. Someone at BK made a big boo-boo. You might even say that the advertising folks at BK were real "Mother Cluckers" (thanks to the Smokinggun.com for the contribution and photo). THAT'S the way I see things today...PRINT IT! -------- Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!: Burger King's "Coq Roq" nothing but a crock???

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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Burger King's "Coq Roq" nothing but a crock???

As the saying goes, "If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.", and let's just say that Burger King snuck it right past me unnoticed er, sort of. Heres the dope: I'm talking about those annoying commercials that Burger King has out now for their hot chicken fries or whatever they are. The ad has a guy wearing a chicken head and grunting and yelling to some really hard core metal song while inside a boxing ring while audience members mosh outside. This guy yells the words to the song which tells you to run over to BK for this new creation. The name of this group appears briefly in the bottom left of the screen as "Coq Roq."(above photo). I never heard of this group however, the music sounded ohhh, familiar?! I couldn't find anything about this group and forgot about it completely until today. During the past few weeks, the response to the group on TV has been off the charts and they have just launched a website...for this week anyway! It turns out that this is no band at all BUT, BK will lead you to believe it is. OK, these guys play in a band, but not together. BK has brought this motley crue of misfits together only for an ad campaign. This is really turning into a 21st century Monkees, where what started as a gag turned into a real band that made recording artists out of four guys that couldn't carry a tune. Well, not so fast boys. You just hit a big bump in the road that calls themselves, "Slipknot". A band that can thank Ozzy and "Ozzfest" for their success. Now, I'm not too familiar with The Knot and couldn't name a song if my life depended on it, but I knew I heard this before. So did "Slipknot" who not only recognized the music, but also saw that they were stealing the "visuals" of their act as the group jams while wearing wacky costumes. Not so smart your majesty. Today, the REAL group filed a lawsuit against BK and "Coq Roq". It looks like the band with the chicken as the singer is going to get it's wings clipped before the BK version has a chance to turn into something real...and quite frankly, that's OK with me. Someone at BK made a big boo-boo. You might even say that the advertising folks at BK were real "Mother Cluckers" (thanks to the Smokinggun.com for the contribution and photo). THAT'S the way I see things today...PRINT IT!

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