"Don't... Don't you want me baby?"

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Does anyone get this advert?

― Graham, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

AT ALL ?!?!?!!!

― Graham, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Serious mistake here. Supposed to be "Don't... don't you want my baby?"

― Aimless, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Haven't seen the advert, but I'm willing to bet that explains it.

― Mark, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not to be confused with the Human League?

― M. Wolf, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I get the human league bit, the question I want answered is "duh, why?".

― Graham, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate this advert with all my soul.

― RickyT, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is a car ad. It is not supposed to make sense. Presumably they are using the song as the Fiat Punto target audience is in its late 20s/early 30s and would've grown up with it and know & love it blah blah.

― Emma, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This thing of talking in song titles has come into advertising big time, there's two beer ads on the radio over here where these fuckheads are like "I've squandered my existence" and all sorts of other nonsense.

― Ronan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is with deep shame (actually it's not, I am RIGHT) that I admit to that advert making me laugh out loud every time it's on. It's comic genius surely! (Most other Fiat adverts are terrible though.)

― Archel, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's another car ad about how funny it is when a woman rejects a man, like unto a thing of the Ford Focus.

― Tim Bateman, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DAMNIT, i thought this was gonna be a thread abt Human League. *sad smiley face*

you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when i met you, something something something something, do doo de doo

― petra jane, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to quote the rest of this but it takes way too long to get to the chorus. Sorry.

― Andrew, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha chicken vs egg!!

― mark s, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate this advert (though I do quite like the "bip-bip-bidip-bidip" bit on the till).

― jamesmichaelward, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

WORST ADVERT EVAH

― DG, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am impressed that Emma remembers which car it is advertising. I find that I notice and remember pretty much every car ad ever, but that I never register, let alone remember later, what car is being advertised. If someone had said this advert, which I have seen loads of times, was advertising a Ford Fiesta or Vauxhall Corsa or whatever I wouldn't have had a moment's doubt. Actually, perhaps Emma is just making it up - I wouldn't know.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Here I was hoping it was an adevert for new born children being sold on the black market

― brg30, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn! Massive correction required. It is supposed to be: Don't... don't chew on my baby."

― Aimless, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am not making it up! I only remember cos it's part of the whole 'Spirito de Punto' series. Also cos I watch too much TV.

― Emma, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't really disbelieve you, Emma. Is it really part of the 'spirito di punto' series? I thought they were all attempts to offer a sexy but funny Italian image, which a twat talking crap to his girlfriend at a petrol station hardly goes with. Shows, again, how much attention I pay. I also watch too much TV, or I would if I accepted the concept of "too much TV".

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

I just really want some help with this. My girlfriend Grace and I have got a fiver bet on how many whoa's there are at the end. I'm sure that it goes whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa and Grace thinks there are 5 whoa's with the second and third whoa's being said closely together! We were on holiday and drunk in Kardamina - Kos at the time walking along the streets singing when we made the bet because we both thought we were right, you know how it is, and the only problem, if you can call it a problem and most of you won't judging by the comments I've read about this advert so far because it sounds like most people hate it, anyway, the only problem is we've not seen the advert since we made the bet. We were in Kos for the first week in september and it's now november! I was all prepared to let it lie until a friend of mine who's opinion we'd asked on the subject got back to me with this web address, so I thought I'd give it a try. Can anyone give me the answer??? Is it 4 or 5 Whoa's. p.s If you want my opinion the advert gets on my tits.

― Dan Turner, Saturday, 2 November 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

As far as I recall there are four whoas - representing the four descending notes contained within the original single 'whoa' on the record.

― David (David), Saturday, 2 November 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

i thought there were six woahs. like, 'woah, woah woah woah woah, woah' with the four in the middle being said quickly. ugh, could be wrong though. doesn't matter anyway because i hate stupid advert.

― Dave, Saturday, 7 December 2002 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

No, it's four, sort of like Whoa Wu-Wu Whoa.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 7 December 2002 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd say two Woahs but the last one is stuttered twice. Wo, Wu-Wu-Woah. I find the black country accent to be key to the comedy of this advert.
I love Dan's concern. It's just the kind of thing that would trouble me.

― Simeon (Simeon), Saturday, 7 December 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Like I said, four whoas. None of them are stuttered 'w--'s'. They're all fully-formed 'whoas', perhaps with an acceleration after the first one - slightly (but not fully) mimicking the effect of the original, single stretched 'whoa' in the song where the first note is, let's see now, a dotted crotchet, followed by a descending trill of three semi-quavers.

― David (David), Saturday, 7 December 2002 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought a minim, two quavers and a crotchet personally.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 7 December 2002 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

No the first note lasts 1.5 beats of the bar which makes it a dotted crotchet according to my rudimentary knowledge of music theory. The last note is a minim of course, you're right. Two semi quavers in the middle.

― David (David), Saturday, 7 December 2002 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no ear for these things at all, I'm afraid. I know what a dotted crotchet is, I just can't hear beats that accurately.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 7 December 2002 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

"I've squandered my existence" is far from nonsense, alas.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 7 December 2002 20:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it was an advert for petrol.

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Monday, 9 December 2002 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

for woahs at last count.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:43 (twenty-three years ago)

'Tis 5 if you count the stuttered one as 2!

Whoa wo-wo whoa whoa

― smee (smee), Monday, 9 December 2002 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Grrrrrrrr..... ok... all my friends think it's six woahs. i'm sure it is.

Quite positive actually.

Hmmmm... perhaps i'll write to fiat demanding an explanation. Probably won't, though.

Dave :)

― Dave, Saturday, 14 December 2002 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

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― kavdkbljbd lkdbfadbflajkdfing, Wednesday, 18 December 2002 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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