Ads with people singing badly need to stop now.

[McCrutchy]

I wasn't actually going to post about this, but it's really getting to be too much now. I first noticed this trend with these truly awful Esurance ads; I have seen at least two: one with a male "customer" singing where they sound incredibly whiny and off-pitch and another with a singer who isn't shown, but he's singing something like "It's OK to be yourself/It's OK to be yourself/Because you are you"--it got so bad that now I have to mute the TV if I'm in the middle of a show.

30 seconds of the song in the Esurance "Customer" ad (supposedly posted by the guy himself). This is the only one I can find on YouTube.

Then, Subway started "$5 Footlong" ads, which, while the singing in them wasn't so bad, started to be aired WAY too often and I'm getting really tired of hearing the lyrics. I don't think I need to link to these, hell, one came on while I'm writing this post.

Recently, I've also seen an abundance (at least three different versions) of "Cricket" ISP advertisements, again with bad singing and all using the song "Respect" by Aretha Franklin.

Link 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDo-9...eature=related

Link 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE36CxYFz2I

Finally, Wendy's has a new Coffee Toffee Twisted Frosty, which has an ad where these five boy band wannabes break into a self-styled pop song about the product. This, like the Subway ads, is shown way too many times and I'm realy tired of it.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INwtruT5Z6o

Feel free to add your own thoughts.