I’m addicted to Fruit of the Loom’s music video commerical “Blue.”

Posted by Les on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at 08:23 AM. Read 9155 times. Tags:
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Commercial advertisers and TV networks are all a-twitter over DVR owners skipping their commercials, but if the advertisers made commercials as entertaining as Fruit of the Loom’s music video titled Blue I’d be more inclined to watch them repeatedly. I don’t know about you guys, but I love that silly commercial and I want a full length MP3 of the song they’re singing. The thing is I can’t find the commercial or the song anywhere online. Apparently it’s a parody take on the band Coldplay, which I’ve never heard of because I’m getting old and out of touch with popular music these days.

It seems this isn’t the first music video the FotL guys have done as the company has put up a “fan site” for another one they did using a country song titled You Can’t Over Love Your Underwear which not only has the video, but also a free MP3 version of the song you can download. I’m not as enamored with that song, but I’m holding out hope they’ll do the same thing with Blue in the near future. I don’t know if the latter is newer than the country song or not, but I’m assuming it is. Word has it there’s yet another music video parody with a song titled B Casual.

Perhaps I’m alone in my appreciation for songs about underwear, but more commercials like that would keep me from hitting the fast forward button.

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Dave M. United States Posted on 07/11/2006 at 12:24 PM

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You should get one of Coldplay’s albums. I have them all and really love them.

I can’t remember how I came across them. Maybe through a promotion at the iTunes Music Store, but I have bought everything they have made since.

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Dave M. United States Posted on 07/11/2006 at 12:27 PM

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Is there something wrong with your site? It took over a minute to post the last comment. Here is the text at the bottom of the page:
Page rendered in 78.8338 with 65 SQL queries.

It seems really sluggish today.

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Les United States Posted on 07/11/2006 at 01:52 PM

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Not sure. Haven’t had a chance to check the logs to see what kind of activity is happening lately, but it has been more sluggish than usual lately. I hope to look into it further this evening.

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Jzashia United States Posted on 07/13/2006 at 05:37 PM

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LOL, I love the Blue song too! It’s my favorite. The other song is cool too, but Blue is my all time favorite. THEE best song of all time. If you find the website, please e-mail me!

Jeremy United States Posted on 07/14/2006 at 08:57 AM

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I am also in search of the great an allusive “BLUE” song. I hope they share it like “you can’t over love your underwear” I am going crazy trying to locate even a lousy copy.
Please keep me in the know if you locate it.

Jeremy

tiffany United States Posted on 07/14/2006 at 09:36 AM

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i was wondering if y’all have seen the one where they’re riding in the pimp car and listening to nelly....someone told me about it and i haven’t seen it. we have been searching for days and days to find it but....no luck yet...y’all please help me......pretty please… kiss

Judy Rainey United States Posted on 07/14/2006 at 06:22 PM

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Hiya- you can download it here:
http://tinyurl.com/mlzgc

Lulu United States Posted on 07/14/2006 at 08:29 PM

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I emailed the Fruit of the Loom folks; they wrote back that they are working on a mirror site featuring the Blue video, just like they did with their “You Can’t Overlove Your Underwear” country parody. I have to say, I think the “Blue” song is more Keane inspired than Coldplay; there is a point where Apple goes into that a falsetto that is straight out of “Somewhere Only We Know.”

And SEB, if you liked the Blue video, then you should listen to Virgin UK radio stream, free on most players like Winamp.  They play Stones and Guns & Roses, but they also play Keane, Coldplay and Snow Patrol.  If you want to ease into this music it’s a painless way to go, like training wheels.

Luul United States Posted on 07/14/2006 at 08:32 PM

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Oh, and you can download the “You Can’t Overlove your underwear” song and the video here:

http://www.fruitcountryvideo.com/

Brutal United States Posted on 07/15/2006 at 10:32 PM

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I got it through Limewire under the “Fruit Guys” song title “blue”.

I feel the same about the song.  If it weren’f for the content and meaning of the words in this song, it would be on the radio.

Sentientv2 United States Posted on 07/16/2006 at 02:02 PM

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The song from this commerical is not anywhere close to Keane or Coldplay. Listen to ELO from the 70s and 80s. The frontman is Jeff Lynne, who has produced tons of artists in the past 20-30 years including Tom Petty. The last studio album of their has an excellent comparison between Lynne’s music and this commercial. Listen to track #2 Moment in Paradise. The album is called Zoom. If you can’t get a sample off of this album, there are some close but not definitive examples in their big hit songs, “Telephone Line” and a little bit in “Strange Magic.” The telephone line song you might remember from Billy Madison when he calls and apologizes to that guy that he picked on when he was in high school and the guy is on the end of the phone putting on red lipstick. This should definitely end the debate, smile. Take care.

Skaijo United States Posted on 07/18/2006 at 10:57 AM

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Thanks for the link, Judy.  I’ve been desperately searching for this song myself.  It has great viral video potential. I hope to see an uncut full version in the near future.

Daniel United States Posted on 07/19/2006 at 02:50 AM

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Great to find I’m not alone in my impression of this commercial! I saw a full-length version of it a few weeks ago at like 4:00 AM and thought to myself “Here is the future of music-commercials” (kinda sad) The music and melody is great! I agree that it would be a great hit if its lyrical content weren’t about underwear. Looking forward to a site for the song and video sometime soon.

randomperson2 United States Posted on 07/21/2006 at 03:50 AM

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I have the mp3, finally. It isn’t the best quality, and its only a minute long.. but it was damn worth the sweat and blood! Sorry, but I cannot reveal my methods.

Shane United States Posted on 07/21/2006 at 10:03 PM

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Hey, use Bear Share, type The Fruit Guys - Blue and it will pop up instantly. Enjoy you crazy people. BTW, how the hell did I stumble onto stupidevilbastard.com ....... hehe

Shane United States Posted on 07/21/2006 at 10:12 PM

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By the way. If you guys like weird songs have you heard of things Like Hampton the Hamster “Hamster Dance Song” Check I-Tunes Shop. Or, what about X-Ray Dog “Peter Jackson’s King Kong Theatrical Theme” I-Pod also. Or Jamie Kennedy and his Circle Circle Dot Dot song...lol hell, I’ll even throw out a respect to video games and say Suikoden 2 Gothic Neclord (Bear Share that one). Some is rap, some classical inspired, and yet another a drugged up hamster techno beat...but I was just throwing out ideas for other lame ass songs you cant help but listen to. (Or at least I cant)

rainking187 United States Posted on 07/21/2006 at 10:26 PM

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I’m pretty sure the song is supposed to be a take on Coldplay’s Yellow.

Jennifer United States Posted on 07/28/2006 at 11:07 PM

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Pablo Signori sings the song Blue in the Fruit of the Loom commercial. He is in an amazing band in LA called Malbec.

Sheryl United States Posted on 07/29/2006 at 09:43 AM

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Check out the special promo (featured ad on the front page with the star next to it) on TIVO featuring a 2 minute version of the video with a “making of” and a blooper. Very cute. If it’s not the first ad that comes up, click back and forth a few times cause they rotate. The technical work that went it to making it is really quite amazing. The whole thing really is backwards, like the one Coldplay video.

kronikels United States Posted on 07/29/2006 at 09:40 PM

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There’s an extended version of the “Blue” commercial on YouTube. It’s about 2:10 long. good song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLj4YgDiRW4&search=the%20fruits%20commercial

Les United States Posted on 07/29/2006 at 10:00 PM

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Thanks for letting me know about the extended version. Gonna have to check it out.

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MattBlack United States Posted on 07/31/2006 at 01:15 AM

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I know what you mean about the “Somewhere Only We Know” but for the most part the song is a take off of “Yellow” by Coldplay, but the video is a take off of Coldplay’s video for “The Scientist” where the lead singer learned to walk and lip sync the song backwards so when they reverse the film it looks like everyone else is walking backwards...it’s pretty cool.

RickyT United States Posted on 07/31/2006 at 08:59 PM

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Yeh that “blue” song is pretty good. I wanna listen to it in my sleep.

Amnesiac United States Posted on 08/10/2006 at 04:01 PM

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Here’s the link to the extnded version of “blue” from the fruit of the loom guys in mp3 format I think the link only lasts for 7 days..http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=48E497B317CECFB6

codiferous United States Posted on 09/10/2006 at 08:18 PM

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Here is the site that has it all: Complete videos, complete, full versions (with lyrics) for downloading (at a decent mp3 128 to 256 kbps)…

Enjoy! Love your site…

http://www.fruitguyfans.com/

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