Marina is on fire (uhh)

Elizabeth November 10th, 2007

In this house, conversation comes to a screeching halt when the latest Bonds underwear ad comes on TV. Conversation resumes mid-sentence 30 seconds later. I can’t explain it - I consider myself to be a healthy heterosexual girl. but there’s something completely mesmerising about this ad. If I think about it too much I might creep myself out.

Tim doesn’t have any conflicting feelings about the ad whatsoever.

I’m trying to find the original on Youtube to share with my international readers, but having no luck so far. In fact I suspect that there is some sort of issue with the song they chose - I notice that for the past few days they have been playing a lyric-less remix of the song. And while the song was apparently available for download on the Bonds website, there’s now no sign of it at all. In fact, the ad itself isn’t even on their Recent Ads page.

I figured the changes to the ad must have had something to do with the lyrics of the song, which I couldn’t really decipher. My google-fu turned this up:

GASOLINA - Bonde do Role

Marina anfetamina
Marina gasolina (oooooo orra)
Marina caipirinha
Bum tchá tchá tchi tchi tchá

Meet me after school and i’ll beat you like gorilla
Bite you like piranha, vem brigar com a minha aranha
Oooooo orra

Egüinha pocotó
Marina is on fire

Etc, etc. If the English lyrics are the problem, I’d be pretty surprised. And I have no idea what the rest means. It’s far more likely that the mention of “meet me after school” suggested that the girls in the ad were school-aged, and some cranky viewers thought they were sexualising little girls. It’s a stretch, but that’s the only thing I can come up with.

All I know is that the song is EMBEDDED IN MY BRAIN when I am trying to sleep and if I don’t find an mp3 of it sometime soon it might actually explode from frustration.

Meanwhile, I found out that Tim & I aren’t the only fans. This is a video made by the seniors of some school called McKinnon Secondary, in which they recreated the Bonds Kaleidoscope commercial (which uses the same music).

How they roped their teacher into doing this is beyond me - my teachers never displayed this level of commitment to our ideas. Maybe that’s because our best idea involved an elaborate plot to put the school up for sale.

If anybody has this song as an mp3, they should really let me know. Until then, at least I have the lyrics so that I can sing them over the remix every 15 mins on Ten!

EDIT: I found the mp3! Uploaded it to my little music player on the sidebar, if you want to have a listen.

3 Responses to “Marina is on fire (uhh)”

  1. # Scarlet Words » Blog Archive » Marina Anfetaminaon 10 Nov 2007 at 9:01 pm

    [...] Remember yesterday, when I was lamenting the changes to the Bonds underwear commercial? They replaced the original Bonde do Role song Marina Gasolina with a lyric-free remix, and it has turned my little world upside down. It doesn’t take much, I know. [...]

  2. # ralfon 11 Nov 2007 at 11:18 am

    There doesn’t seem to be a little music player on your sidebar. You don’t mean iTunes on your PC, do you? ;-)

    Is it this ad?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbQoE5GiDcM

    R

  3. # Elizabethon 11 Nov 2007 at 12:36 pm

    Remember when you used to be nice to me?

    No, I’m not talking about iTunes! I’m talking about the little flash player that’s at the bottom of my sidebar. If you can’t see it, take it up with Mr Jobs!

    The ad you’ve linked me isn’t the one I’m talking about, although it uses the same music. They call that one the ‘kaleidoscope’ ad, and it’s that one that the boys from the video above were copying.

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