Just saw the most disgusting advertisement EVER......and JMHO.

[a kennedy]

The Ave Maria being sung by a beautiful voice in what I assume are headphones of a father while his kids are just extremely noisy. It’s an Amazon advertisement!!!!!!! I thought isn’t anything sacred anymore? it’s the Ave Maria.....one of the most beautiful songs ever sung. I might be wrong but damn that to me is pretty damn low. My brother sang this song at my mother’s funeral, and had the whole congregation bawling. Damn, just really pissed me off Amazon using this song in this advertisement.

[USALiberal]

1. It's a song! Big deal, Kia used it also............

[a kennedy]

3. Well if Kia used it previously, then silly me to be so offended by it.

[demosincebirth]

6. Schubert's Master piece

[applegrove]

2. I was in Paris one December. A friend and i were walking by Notre Dame one

evening when we saw some people going inside. So we followed. It was full and someone was singing that song from a balcony way up high above the set of front doors. So there is good going on with Ava Maria being sung beautifully somewhere, all the time. It was a wonderful moment.

[marble falls]

4. The reason advertisers use it is because it is so beautiful and people respond emotionally to it.

[meadowlander]

9. Also royalty free...

[jmowreader]

11. Only if you hire your own band

If you license an already-recorded version of it, royalties go to the musicians who performed it,

[Newest Reality]

5. I think it is safe to say that

with the Internet and all that, right now, there is something somewhere that can offend anyone at anytime.

It seems that being offended is now being deprecated somewhat. I guess we have to find something else to do

Maybe we can be overjoyed, instead.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Have seen several in the last year or so using important pieces of classical music as backgrounds

for their crappy, trendy, cheesy junk products, it drives me wild. God, I hate that. I always rush to mute the sound in every dammed case. Sometimes I only have to hear one note and can mute the sound instantly.

Deeply insulting.

Thanks for your post. I am so glad to hear there's someone else who finds this raw greedy grab for something almost spiritual to sell their trash is impossible to accept.

[burrowowl]

8. I second that

[cwydro]

10. Got a mute button on your remote?

Lol.

[MasonDreams]

12. Nothing is sacred anymore, it makes my blood boil

Ave Maria should somehow be protected. You don't see depictions of Jesus or Mohammed selling used cars, but Buddhist ideas and imagery are used and abused.
The Stars and Stripes are everywhere and increasingly associated with excluding others.
Out of the many ONE.
I was angered when I saw a shoes (made with slave labor) advertisement using NASA footage of a Saturn V launch.
I am 100% in favor of nonviolent assembly to redress our govt for grievances. Three cheers Colin Kaepernick but shoe sales should be separate.

[Polybius]

13. That's "the most disgusting advertisement" you've ever seen?

I remember seeing advertisements for Ghettopoly in 2002.

[IcyPeas]

14. but you noticed it..... good or bad

that's what advertising is all about.....

[LAS14]

15. Right up there with this is when the Hallelujah Chorus is used to promote something like a car. AND

... I will never buy a Subaru because of their despicable trivialization of LOVE.