"Big Me"
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
1995
Sometimes it's easy to forget that music videos are, in essence, just ads for the band's record.
Foo Fighters are a good rock band, that made some good albums, and some awesome fucking videos. And because the videos were so good, you would watch them every time they came on, and eventually develop an affection for the song itself.
Mentos commercials were one of the enduring mysteries of the 90's. Were they just terrible ads? Were they self-aware parodies of terrible ads? Were they the product of some irony-free European nation, marketing their candy to a nation of creative problem solvers?
Regardless, a generation of snarky 90's kids ate these ads up and smiled for the camera afterwards.
It's impossible to parody a parody, so maybe for this video to work you have to believe the Mentos ads were genuine.
And you know what? I do. I don't want to live in a world where those goofy ass stupid fucking things were just a cynical attempt to get Generation X to buy their mints.
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