Crucial Track 🎵 May 18, 2026: john.philpin.com

@JohnPhilpin I see what you did there (shaking that ass). Couldn’t tell you what car it was advertising, though.

@JohnPhilpin I meant the ass-shaking one that was advertised with the Groove Armada track. Which turns out to be the Renault Megane.

@devilgate where is that - don’t even see it? I used an audio link.

@JohnPhilpin My memory! And searching. It was used in a TV ad in the UK maybe ten, fifteen years back, focusing on the shapely rear end of the car. ‘I see you baby, shaking that ass’!

YouTube link. Also people complained, according to The Guardian.

Which can’t possibly be right, because it says it was 23 years ago. I remember my daughter singing along with it, and she wasn’t doing that when she was 2!

I guess maybe they revived it? Anyway, that’s what I was talking about, so I’m playing <cite>Vertigo</cite> now.

@devilgate wipes brow … I thought my cryptic posts had finally caught up on me .. don’t recall the story at all .. but boy people took complaints seriously ‘back then’

> The television watchdog has slapped a permanent ban on a car advertisement being aired before 7.30pm after 139 viewers complained about wiggling bottoms and the word “ass” being used in the ad.

139 viewers❗️