Gossip Girl Sexes Up It Some More
The people over at The CW are sending a big "whatevs" over to the complainers of Gossip Girl's last ad campaign, that had "OMFG" in big letters, with this racy new poster.
The best part about the ads (other than the fact that they are actually announcing that one of my favorite shows is on its way back into my life, Sept. 1) is that the show is using actual "criticisms" from naysayers to promote the raciness of the teen drama.
Brilliant!
The Boston Globe screamed GG was "Every Parent's Nightmare," while the Parents Television Council said the show was "Mind-Blowingly Inappropriate." So the creative minds slapped the comments on poster, complete with a sexy photo of some of their hottie stars, and, voila!, advertising gold!
It's so good that the PTC continue to steam over the move. "I think it reeks of desperation, if they have to position themselves as so edgy and so controversial that they've been called out by us," their director of communications said. While the CW marketing boss thinks everyone should just refrain from getting their grandma panties in a bunch.
"What we're trying to do is communicate with the audience in a way that they like and can appreciate," he said. "This sort of campaign resonates with someone who likes Gossip Girl — specifically, women ages 18 to 34." The objective was finding "well-written headlines that are provocative and would catch our viewers' attention and, in a tongue-in-cheek way, capture what the show is about."
A job well done!
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I personally don't think that its that bad. I think they're being a little over-dramatic. They need lives.
Perhaps all these parents that are freaking out and claiming that ONE tv show will ruin their kids could actually try PARENTING their kids THEMSELVES instead of always expecting tv to teach them the right thing!
If your kids are SO easily influenced by a tv show that you worry they will throw away their lives then YOU have failed as a parent!
my thoughts exactly, Logic. Parents nowadays try to blame everything on everyone else when they should be looking introspectively to find out why their children are behaving inappropriately.
and no, i'm not some old mother hen, i'm a 24 yr old woman with 2 boys who plans on raising my kids the right way and teaching them right from wrong...regardless of the things they may or may not have access to.
at some point people have to take accountability.