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Conclusive evidence that the pre-launch spat was all part of a publicity deal!

Or that people change opinion, especially when they're concerns are addressed.

She's by all measure, a pretty savvy business women (these days, all major artists need to be), so her letter was not personal, it was business. Once she got what she wanted (and by extension all other artists too), she moved on.

If Apple is able to do business with Samsung, and they are, not sure why her working Apple would demonstrate anything beyond she's using Apple for self-promotion, which is what she should do.
 
Conclusive evidence that the pre-launch spat was all part of a publicity deal!

Hardly.

Holding grudges is bad business. Grandstanding to get what you want is good business, when you have a base you can appeal to. This happens all the time. Ever notice that when a cable/satellite company is renegotiating a deal with a broadcast network, there's all this rhetoric from both sides about how evil the other side is and how you should stop giving business to X company? And yet, what ultimately happens is, they hammer out a deal and then everyone is on good terms again, until the next contract rolls around.

Taylor Swift, or her people, didn't like the terms they were going to get, but also saw an opportunity. So they engineered a publicity stunt, but it was unilateral. The aim was to make Apple the bad guy they didn't change their behavior, while Taylor was the sweet innocent victim in all this. She/they wanted better terms. So the game was played, Apple responded, a deal that both sides could live with was hammered out, and everyone is BFFs.

Contrast Adele: doesn't like streaming, didn't care for the opportunity, did not play the game. No deal was hammered out. Her album sold astronomical numbers anyway. Would streaming have changed the outcome for better or worse? We may never know for sure, though it turned out just fine for Taylor Swift.
 
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Good lord, Apple's ads have fallen from greatness (1984, Silhouette) to clever & effective (Mac vs. PC) to downright awful (this one). I can see how this might appeal to middle-school children or pop-culture-obsessed individuals with stunted emotional growth, but as an ad this is terrible.
 
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People grow to have different ideas of beauty. I find it funny that so many people think there is ONE version of beauty. That's completely ridiculous.

For example, I'd totally date the brunette her, but not the blonde. I'm more a personality guy. I'm sure many people would think the exact opposite.
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Ummmmm…those are two different people……

AT&T girl is Milana Vayntrub.

Orbit gum girl (current) is Farris Patton.
 
To be fair they've had a some bad ads in the past and some good ads more recently too.
Yes, it's a story of hit and miss. I'm interested to know if they are all done by the same agency and who was involved in their scripting and production.
 
Bit awkward for her, seen as she like a Hater Hater Hater on streaming services.

It's not about the money money money... Oh wait. Wrong artist haha.
 
Happy April Fool's Day

It's a commercial, so you're not forced to watch it, unless you're in a Clockwork Orange scenario....
If that's the case, then you got some other issues to deal with.

I watched it voluntarily and I laughed of my own volition, others may not and I'm ok with that too.
 
My fiancé always has tons of makeup when she runs.

Also, it's so obvious the stunt double swap in and out.


Man, I am not seeing it. There doesn't appear to be any cut at all, and it looks like it is really here hitting the deck.
 
Man, I am not seeing it. There doesn't appear to be any cut at all, and it looks like it is really here hitting the deck.

Yeah, doing a swap would need some blocking, unless they were able to stitch two takes together and CGI'd the transition, which would make something very simple much more complex and expensive to do.
Not impossible they spent money like that, but improbable.

It's really not that dangerous to do this thing if you''re doing it on purpose and not falling down by accident.
Keeping the back legs in the air is probably the only thing you have to do not to hurt yourself.
The speed also wasn't that high. The end of the video might even have been sped up to make it look faster (I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case).
 
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