{"id":41773,"date":"2019-02-03T23:26:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T04:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=41773"},"modified":"2019-02-04T02:13:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T07:13:44","slug":"and-the-best-super-bowl-ad-of-2019-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/and-the-best-super-bowl-ad-of-2019-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Best Super Bowl Ad of 2019 Is &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I barely looked at the game. I was there just for Cardi B&#8217;s Pepsi commercial &#8212; and she was barely in it! &#8212; so I was gratified by Burger King&#8217;s 45-second-long ad starring the late Andy Warhol.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8fIfPKpY7HQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I appreciate expensive corporate risk-taking &#8230; when it causes no harm. How many people watching the game even recognized Warhol? I would like to know. Anyway, <a href=\"https:\/\/adage.com\/article\/cmo-strategy\/burger-king-andy-warhol-super-bowl-ad\/316498\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AdAge<\/a> reported that the clip was originally part of a more than four-minute from J\u00d8rgen Leth 1982 film <em>66 Scenes from America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Burger King lucked out, because &#8212; as Leth said in this interview &#8212; Andy originally wanted to go with McDonald&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ynhdgc9ziw8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;ve got to give Burger King props for its reply to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Adweek\/status\/1092249217618399233\/photo\/1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AdAge&#8217;s tweet about the burger rivalry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">it doesn&#39;t matter who you flirt with, it matters who you take home.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Burger King (@BurgerKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BurgerKing\/status\/1092251066861846531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the whole Warhol hamburger segment from Leth&#8217;s movie.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WUv0L999FBs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you want to spend more time with Andy and can&#8217;t get to the Whitney Museum exhibit (<a href=\"https:\/\/whitney.org\/Exhibitions\/AndyWarhol\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">running through March 31<\/a>), you can catch all eight hours of Warhol&#8217;s Empire State Building film on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PuSIOK5Jj8g\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>. It&#8217;s very relaxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I barely looked at the game. I was there just for Cardi B&#8217;s Pepsi commercial &#8212; and she was barely in it! &#8212; so I was gratified by Burger King&#8217;s 45-second-long ad starring the late Andy Warhol. I appreciate expensive corporate risk-taking &#8230; when it causes no harm. How many people watching&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/and-the-best-super-bowl-ad-of-2019-is\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,726,25,49,107],"tags":[757,1887],"class_list":["post-41773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-art","category-art-entertainment","category-business","category-in-the-news","category-sports","tag-andy-warhol","tag-super-bowl-2019","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41773"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41779,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41773\/revisions\/41779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}