1984 (advertisement)
"1984" is an American television commercial which introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer. It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas and Lee Clow at Chiat\Day, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott. English athlete Anya Major performed as the unnamed heroine and David Graham as Big Brother. It was aired only twice on American television, first in 10 local outlets, including Twin Falls, Idaho, where Chiat\Day ran the ad on December 31, 1983, at the last possible break before midnight on KMVT, so that the advertisement qualified for 1983 advertising awards. Its second televised airing, and only national airing, was on January 22, 1984, during a break in the third quarter of the telecast of Super Bowl XVIII by CBS.
In one interpretation of the commercial, "1984" used the unnamed heroine to represent the coming of the Macintosh (indicated by her white tank top with a stylized line drawing of Apple’s Macintosh computer on it) as a means of saving humanity from "conformity" (Big Brother). These images were an allusion to George Orwell's noted novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which described a dystopian future ruled by a televised "Big Brother". The estate of George Orwell and the television rightsholder to the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four considered the commercial to be a copyright infringement and sent a cease-and-desist letter to Apple and Chiat\Day in April 1984.
Super Bowl commercials
The U.S. television broadcast of the Super Bowl – the championship game of the National Football League (NFL) – features many high-profile television commercials, colloquially known as Super Bowl ads. The phenomenon is a result of the game's extremely high viewership and wide demographics: Super Bowl games have frequently been among the United States' most watched television broadcasts, with Nielsen having estimated that Super Bowl XLIX in 2015 was seen by at least 114.4 million viewers in the United States, surpassing the previous year's Super Bowl as the highest-rated television broadcast in U.S. history. As such, advertisers have typically used commercials during the Super Bowl as a means of building awareness for their products and services among this wide audience, while also trying to generate buzz around the ads themselves so they may receive additional exposure, such as becoming a viral video.
Super Bowl commercials have become a cultural phenomenon of their own alongside the game itself; many viewers only watch the game to see the commercials, national surveys (such as the USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter) judge which advertisement carried the best viewer response, and CBS has aired yearly specials since 2000 chronicling notable commercials from the game. Super Bowl advertisements have become iconic and well-known because of their cinematographic quality, unpredictability, humor, and use of special effects. The use of celebrity cameos has also been common in Super Bowl ads. A number of major brands, including Budweiser, Coca-Cola, Doritos, GoDaddy and Master Lock, have been well known for making repeated appearances during the Super Bowl.
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by Chevy Woods
Super Bowl
by: Chevy Woods[Bridge]
Quarter brick on the scale, watch me weight that shit up
Shit is so much work that I need me a truck
Quarter brick on the scale, watch me weight that shit up
Shit is so much work that I need me a truck
[Hook]
I'm smokin' weed and gettin' money, smokin' weed and gettin' money
Smokin' weed and gettin' money, smokin' weed and gettin' money
Smokin' weed and gettin' money
Smokin' weed and gettin' money
I'm smokin' weed and gettin' money, smokin' weed and gettin' money
Smokin' weed and gettin' money, smokin' weed and gettin' money
Smokin' weed and gettin' money
Smokin' weed and gettin' money
[Verse 1]
I'mma leave that shit to Sosa, I don't think that I'm Kobe
I be overseas with it, bitch, I think I'm Ginobili
And my shooter's Lewinsky, 42 off that whiskey
Lay you down somethin' quickly, no misdemeanor, no Missy
Yeah them felonies, I know 'bout
Shootouts, I know 'bout
Coke sellin', I know 'bout
Dope sellin', I know 'bout
You don't know shit, boy
Talkin' out your mouth
Lights off, they masks on, and they right outside your house
Them gold chains, buy some gold bottles that we drinkin' up in that VIP
That's what I sell and I'm fly as Hell
You with that bird-mouth-ass bitch
Take it to the top 'cause I'm from the bottom
You niggas know me, real shit
But let me break it down, we smokin' weed, gettin' money up in this bitch
[Hook]
[Verse 2]
Gangbang, that's 48, a hundred niggas on the left side
Fucked around with my nigga O now I'm leanin' out on the Westside
FTR to my North niggas, Pennex out on that Eastside
Big duke from that Mon Yough where they known for lettin' them heats fly
Sixty grand on my watch, nigga – try somethin', get shot, nigga
The 'hood got fucked up when Big, Dre and Loc got locked up, nigga
Young niggas have metal too – Olympic-style, they'll medal you
I was out on that ocean view – fuck you think you want me to do?
They holler and give back – but they ain't never give me shit
I put the 'hood on my back – and I was never on no weak shit
Pussy bitches like y'all? I smell y'all bitches from far
But I'm just countin' my bread, and smokin' out of that jar
[Bridge]