Comments on: Pepsi uses RIAA victim in ad

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 05:56:33 +0000

How is Annie Leith a victim?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:40:26 +0000

I don’t care if I’m months behind with this reply (this being October 2004), but yeah, I thought it was a definite “kick in the b*lls” to the RIAA.

Again, I didn’t make the connection either.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 05:39:34 +0000

When I first saw it, I thought the commercial was meant to be a hard slam against the RIAA in order to make Pepsi seem cool and edgy.

When the girl said her line, it seemed to me like she was saying that kids would still use P2P to rip off music for free in spite of getting nailed by the RIAA. (At that point, we were laughing too much to pay attention to the end of the commercial where they explained the iTunes thing, and so I didn’t make the mental connection right away that iTunes = RIAA.)

Later, I was surprised to learn that the commercial had the blessing of the RIAA. It makes sense now that I think about it.

But I’ll bet a lot of people were like me and only remembered her funny line and how much it slams the RIAA. If that’s true, then the commercial may have seriously backfired against the RIAA.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 02:43:18 +0000

We will add Pepsi and Apple to the Boycott list. Their products suck anyway

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:23:34 +0000

What do you expect from a company whose advertising schemes included painting grafitti on the Himalayas? Oh, wait, Coke did that too!

(I bet you think this is a joke.)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:32:27 +0000

If God had meant for us to drink Pepsi he wouldn’t have created Coca Cola….

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 02:51:39 +0000

I just threw up.