Flat Buns Patty Melt Commercial (30 seconds)
Remember Hot For Teacher by Van Halen? They were such a sucky band as were all the metal bands we endured in the 80s when I still periodically watched large amounts of MTV. These Carl’s Jr./Hardee’s Flat Buns commercials totally brought me back to Van Halen and my main argument for rock fans regarding the current state of hip hop.
Most of my white friends in North Carolina still seem somewhat amazed that I listen to rap music more than any other genre out since most of them think the whole deal is bs. Seriously, I still get people saying rap is not music as if that was an intelligible statement. On the other hand, some of them have moved on to discussing issues related to rap that they’ve been hearing about cause I’ll explain it to them in a manner they can understand. So there are small glimmers of hope.
Van Halen – Hot for Teacher
What I’ve never gotten around to is using my argument that dismissing rap because of gangsta rap or whatever other subgenre is dominant is like dismissing rock in the 80s because you didn’t like heavy metal. The bottom line is that what’s charting has little to do with the full range of musical activities within any genre of music. But we rarely get to that because most of them would have to take it on faith that rap is anything other than racist, mysogynistic, homophobic noise that wakes them up when it rolls through their neighborhood.
Seeing these remind me so much of Hot For Teacher. Don’t know if any teachers complained back then but I understand why they’re complaining. When other people take control of representations of you and your kind, however that’s defined, it usually doesn’t work out so well.
About 2:20 into Hot for Teacher you get a shot of the teacher walking down the aisle from behind that may have been picked up for the ad. In fact, you could argue that the whole thing is a ripoff of the Van Halen video. But Hot for Teacher is actually much more demeaning with the teacher characters playing into fantasies of beauty queens and strippers.
And the little kid is a pimp at the end of the Van Halen video!
Your current ad for flat buns is totally sexist and encourages teens to go after their teachers. No wonder we have teachers being arrested for having sex with underage kids. This type of ad encourages that. And make all teachers out to be sexy. By the way, I’m not a teacher, just a disgusted senior citizen that will personally boycott Carl’s Jr. from now on.
VAN HALEN A SUCKY BAND? now thats funny, call me when one of these rappers sell over 100 million albums like van halen did and still does…the only way one of these rappers even come close they have to use one of van halen songs, like tone loc’s “wild thing” , a van halen song, jamies cryin…research my boy before you call a band sucky!
“Sucky” is an aesthetic term. It’s not about numbers it’s about the subjective response of a critic who may well be wielding such tools as an education in music!
Nevertheless, I consider sucky very much a personal kind of critique.
I love the flat bun ad and no i don’t think bout my teachers that way cuz there all old and ugly and i love flat buns
I got an idea. How about you teach your kids right from wrong and not rely on the TV to do it.
How about not take the whole television world literally. If you can’t do that take the t.v out of your house. This is just a commercial, not reality.
If the rappers had been black rapping about a good-looking white teacher wiggling her ‘flat buns,’ then the crap would really hit the fan. I liked the ad and the schoolboy fantasy. We ought to have more teachers like her. The boys would probably sit up and pay more attention.
It’s actually a pretty good commercial. It’s funny and that song is catchy.The people who are against it are just old and jealous and don’t have a sense of humor!If you don’t like it, turn the channel when it comes on.
in anatomy class i got a butt -.
You are the one missing the point.
Rock music does have sex in it, there is no doubt there. The difference is that is isn’t in every video and is not misogynistic to a fault. The type of lifestyle that is portrayed in Rap is truly unattainable.
Do I think this video is funny? Yes and that is the problem. Rap has become a parody of itself and has no voice.
Boycotting a burger joint is ridiculous. Try education. Try parenting.
By the way, Van Halen is not a metal band.
I love that commercial, it is hilarious. Van Halen is still around after 30 years so they must be doing something right.