Another irritating TV ad
HomeAgain is a pet recovery service that I've been seeing ads for lately. The service reunites lost pets with their owners. If it works, great -- I'm all for it. Losing a pet is an awful, awful thing that no one should have to deal with.
But the TV ad is painful. It shows a bunch suburban families happy to be reunited with their dogs and cats, all of which are wearing HomeAgain tags on their collars. And while the pet owners are in the thrall of reunited joy, they're singing Peaches and Herb's 1980 soft-rock anthem "Reunited."
Now, "Reunited" is not on my list of songs I really care that much about. For Peaches and Herb, I'll take a classic disco anthem like "Shake Your Groove Thing" any day of the week. And soft-rock though it is, "Reunited" has a certain mellow R&B groove to it that's easy on the ears. Even if it is really saccharine.
But hearing these painfully white actors (including kids) singing the song makes me cringe every time I hear it. It's bloody awful. Like, William Hung awful. Please, daddy, make the bad ad go away.