intertexto.

muito legal essa propaganda do HSBC, nomeada "bebê gigante". mas achei muito curiosa a coincidência de ligar um bebê gigante a serviços/questões financeiras, porque uma das músicas que eu mais tenho escutado atualmente faz exatamente essa associação, só que na letra bem bolada de everything's ruined, do faith no more, o bebê gigante é o capitalismo, e o que começa com um genial "we were so happy" termina repetindo o título do som.
o clipe tem imagens de família aleatórias, e até o clima de gozação da banda, junto com as imagens da montagem de chroma key tosca ao fundo, rende um certo ar de oba-oba. que deve ser bem a moral da história, mesmo: as coisas deram mais certo que a gente esperava.


we were so happy...

things worked out better than we have planned
capital from boy, woman and man
we're like ink and paper
numbers on a calculator
knew arithmetic so well
working overtime
completed what was assigned
we had to multiply ourselves
a bouncing little baby
a shiny copper penny

and he spent himself
would not listen to us
but when he lost his appetite
he lost his weight and friends

baby became a fat nickel so fast
then came puberty
exponentially
soon our boy became a million

people loved him so
and helped him to grow
everyone knew the thing that was best
of course, he must invest

a penny won't do
no, a penny won't do
a penny won't do
no, a penny won't do

but he made us proud
he made us rich
but how were we to know?
he's counterfeit

now everything's ruined