Pepsi’s ad infuriated #BLM because… because #BLM is perpetually infuriated.
They say it trivialized their important concerns, implying that a Pepsi could be a bridge to communication. Hailed as a complete failure, Heineken is now being praised for “doing it right,” because as we all know, alcohol will do the job that soda cannot.
How this is an answer to the Pepsi ad is unclear to me because #BLM is not addressed in the ad. The three issues are climate change, transgenderism and feminism.
The left is giving it a thumb’s up. Why? Because in the ad it is the right who cede their positions.
A man who originally said transgenderism is ridiculous, that a man is a man and a woman is a woman, says that he has to now warn his girlfriend that he will be receiving texts from “another woman” (the man in the ad who claims to be a wife and a daughter.)
A man clinks his beer with the feminist to the toast,”smash the patriarchy.”
Heineken is dead to me.
heh! I don’t drink beer anyway..
I’m not a huge beer fan, but drink it under the right circumstances.
Heineken, to me, takes everything I do not like about beer and intensifies it.
It’s the last beer I would choose.
Heineken taste like crap. My says it tastes like monkey smell.
Who needs proofreading? It should read, My wife says….
I could not make it past 1:30 Min.
I am drinking alot of local craft ales
these days.
I liked it better before they passed it through the horse.
I can see where lefties would love it; It’s tedious, contrived and preachy. I kept looking for the “Skip Ad” button.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s4lEUtGTN-s
Any beer in a green bottle is guaranteed to taste like a shit skunk.
I’m a regular at a 2 barrel nano operation tasting room. The funky sours and barrel aged brews are my favorites, I’ve become somewhat of a beer snob as a result.
I watched about 15 seconds of the ad. WTF does this have to do with selling beer. Dumbass CEO’s should be fired for spending shareholder money for drivel like this.
On some levels ..yeah..is possible to get along with an individual who differs in your political or moral or religious belief..but once these topics become dominant? Then no..never…
heini = skunk piss.
heini = skunk piss
support local music
drink local beer
I stopped after about a minutes and a half. Too demeaning and preachy, waste of my time.
Crappy excuse for a beer.
For a decent tasting mass produced beer, try YUENGLING.
American made, and not dedicated to destroying America. At this rate, that could be a winning motto.
Lefty politics do not sell beer. You’d think the industry would have learned after the disastrous Amy Schumer/Seth Moron ad campaign had to bevcancelled.
Heine is a ‘premium’ beer, in what world, it’s terrible.
Smells like a couch the cat pissed on.
Of all the beers I have had, Heineken would be the last choice.
Followed closely by Blue Moon.
Why preemptively destroy half of your customer base?
As I’ve taught my family so many times, Evil (the Left) eventually ends up eating itself. These corporations are replete with MBAs, Marketing geniuses and Lawyers that are taught crap at their schools-they have no common sense-they come to their careers with their stupidity fully formed vs working their way up to executive positions and knowing better.
They’ll go to their graves just as stupid if the ‘safety net’, that socialists perpetually bleat in favor of, shields them from learning from their mistakes.
I can tell you that the Heineken they drink in Amsterdam is NOT the same as the shit they send us. And, after commercial, I’d pick PBR over Heineken even if it were.
And the premium price you’d pay for a Hiney goes to pay for this insulting garbage.
I have drank Henis for years. Now? I am not going to be able cause this stupidity will waft into my brain. I enjoy a beer after working on a hot day. Supposed to be in low 90s here tomorrow and I guess I am going to have to buy YUENGLING (never had it before).
I’m going to go against convention here; I think the principle of this ad at least is honorable. I always say that I am open to discussion, and frankly I consider that the most likely means of converting someone to my point of view, although in most cases that would be an undecided person. And I am open to the possibility of being convinced of the other’s point of view, although as well-read as I am I consider it unlikely that there is much in the way of new information that will change my mind significantly.
I would say that the only shortcoming, although the conclusion is left fairly open, is (to me at least) the assumption that those with conservative views will be swayed to the liberal ones.
Also, I don’t like beer or wine, although an occasional porter or stout is ok. So Heineken was never on my radar.
Pretentious beer for pretentious people
A few thoughts:
So – strangers who meet and get acquainted usually end up being able to relate to each other as fellow human beings instead of stereotypes. Big deal. I didn’t need Heineken to tell me that.
I seem to recall (from back in my beer-drinking days) that Heineken used to be a pretty decent-tasting beer. Or maybe that was just in comparison to the gerbil pee that most American beer companies were producing at the time. Especially the “Lite” beers *shudder*.
I don’t know how many folks they expect to win over with this ad, but I’ll bet the Hipsters are gonna keep drinking their PBR and the Rednecks are stickin’ to their Bud Lite *shudder*.
Whatever happened to drink commercials that just praised the product, rather than pushing some contentious social issue? IMHO, most people drink to escape worldly problems, not confront them.
P.S. – Here’s an old Hamm’s commercial that’s actually fun to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVq7IsExEJA
🙂
If you want a lager beer in that style but properly made, plus it has a wonderful politically incorrect sexist logo, try St. Pauli Girl. Heineken used to be pretty good about 30 years ago but I find it undrinkable now, and doubly so after this stupid ad.
On the rant about ads, what the hell is the deal with the little lemon leprechaun Mindy touting Coke?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFkTkFXxUt4
just because someone has something to say doesn’t make it truth.
and truth is black and white.
i have zero interest in listening to propoganda, mental delusions or someone’s feelings. notice how the stereotype is in play here.
where is the moslem sharing a beer with a gay?
A co-worker and I would talk about lots of subjects, I never backed down or refused to discuss any matter. When it came to religion he would tend to shift the subject if not shut it down outright.
After a while the perfect slam was made available. He used the typical “Christians are so closed-minded” tripe.
I asked him to name one conversation I had shut down, he couldn’t do it. I asked him how many religious discussions he shut down, too many to count. I then asked him which one of us was the closed-minded one, in a heart beat he knew he’d just been owned. From then on he was open to hearing and listening about the One and Only.
Discussions are good, conservative ideas always win – but aren’t always accepted – but they win.
Same with Christianity, it always wins – but isn’t always accepted.
LCD,
The commercial’s conclusion wasn’t left open.
The guy on the right says “smash the patriarchy.”
And the other calls the transexual a woman.
I’d say that’s pretty conclusive.
The only think missing was the 3rd guy biting the pillow and worrying when the seas would come crashing through the studio.
Good points BFH, I wasn’t listening closely. The general idea may have been honorable but the delivery was a la 0bama: let me reach across the aisle – to pull you over to my side, cause I sure ain’t moving to yours.
The only Dutch beer I’ll drink now is BUDWEISER!
I am to believe that I would easily sit and chat kissy face with an Antifa thug at Berkeley because someone offered me a beer?
When I was drinking, it would be either Guiness or a black-and-tan…never, ever Heinies!
In re: this oh-so-long spot? Someone’s immortal words: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Hey Heineken! Fuck you and your shitty beer!
I make my own beverages. Piss on the SJW’s.
@Uncle Al: What’s sexist about a German Biergarten waitress? They were all over the place when I was there, and most of them could carry more than six beers at a time:
http://tinyurl.com/nx9zjga
Becks. Sucks but not too bad. I USED to have a Heineken when the store would be out of Becks (I drink one six-pack per summer). My husband, (a natural born man and staying that way) home brews great great stuff – but I can’t drink most of it. And now HE can’t drink it either (atkins diet). The little bit of unfiltered type stuff in the home brews makes my guts go nuts. Maybe I should try Yuengling, I do hear that’s tasty. Not ever have Heni again unless they publicly beg for forgiveness and admit to being willing tools. Then I still probably won’t. TIRED AS HELL OF THIS CRAP AND I AIN’T GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE.
So is this ad trying to say that Heiny is preferred among the mentally ill, of the Heiny is made by the mentally ill?
It’s getting too hard to keep up….
Why are commercials being used to push socialist propaganda, or even an attempt to mediate?
Vote with your feet, wallet, gun if necessary. The guy was ceding so he could get laid.
@GrandeMe: If you like a hefty, malty lager, try Anchor Steam beer. It has a definitely distinctive taste (as I recall).
@Vietvet: You also know that Heineken in Germany tastes MUCH better than the crap they send here. 😉
Heineken.
One of the few beers
riiiiiiight below
Corona Light.
i was happy the left had to sit down in the end..
Why would anyone pay for a beer that comes with a lecture? The left needs a mental health evaluation.
AaaaaaaaagggggggggggHhhhhhhhh. Fuuuuuuuuuuucccccckkkkkkk!
Four precious minutes of my life wasted. And I now hate heineken
even more.
@Truckbuddy: Do the Dutch brew a different version for the Germans? It wouldn’t surprise me if they did.
@Vietvet – There’s nothing objectionable about the St Pauli Girl, quite the contrary! But the knee-jerk jerk-offs find that kind of marketing sexist. Something or other about “objectifying”. I’d like to see an arm-wrestling match between some SJW basement dweller and a German barmaid!
Einstock Toasted Porter is one awesome beer.
Excuse me, UK accents?
They are all disqualified.
Dumb-asses soon won’t have a kingdom because of how stupid they are. Why should IGAF about whatever they have to say?
Piss off with your pretentious bottled piss ad.
PBR is not bad beer. I drank it, Miller, and Stroh’s in Wis.. But I’m not a beer snob. The bar/garage bands there were great back in the 70s, among the other things you also found there.
Would rather have Mezcal and single malt scotch. I like the grittiness of Mezcal and even the cheapest single malt is better than any beer.
This wasn’t an “experiment”, as the commercial leads you to believe. These are all actors given a script.
Since the lefties make commercials today, of course the “right” changed their minds. If these were real people and not actors, the lefties would have screamed, “Fuck you, asshole!!”, and stormed out.
Commercials are mini movies that are sales tools. Anyone who fell for this bullshit is a fool.
Bring back “Where’s the Beef”.
At least, that was funny.
Oh, and I’ll never drink a Heineken again as long as I live.
Nice work, Heineken. You used to have the best ads in the world.
Like this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAe9p3ABAfQ
Heineken is bitter, harsh and stinky, just like a lot of liberals, lol
Shiner Bock from Shiner Texas … can’t go wrong
Texas guy: LOVE Shiner Bock. They need an ad with a bunch of tough ass Texans holding guns, while saying, “Shiner Bock. We don’t drink pussy beers like Heini”
They’d make millions.
@Vietvet: It was much better in Germany and even Turkey. Maybe it was because it was served much warmer. I am not a fan of cold beer since I got back from there in the 80’s and then Middle East in the 90’s.
Wurzburger Hofbrau, Franziskaner Weissbier. 40+ degrees. My little slice of Hedonism, but now I don’t drink at all. All American beer was ‘Pisswasser’ to me. 😀
Check that – I did like Pacifico cold after a trip to Isla Mujeres. All I can say is it was better than Corona.
As I think of it, it was just Turkey. Damn I’m gettin’ old. 🙁
@Truckbuddy: I think most countries drink their beer around room temperature or slightly below. We probably drink American beer cold because it helps to hide the taste of gerbil pee.
😉