Vampire Weekend created a commercial-friendly non-denominational holiday song with “Holiday.” And now that things need to be bought and sold for Christmas, “Holiday” is showing up in a few places. The first is this ad for prep purveyor Tommy Hilfiger, which uses a Futura, or Futura-like font for the title card. It’s the font that Wes Anderson uses in every film — Vampire Weekend did their own Anderson-like video for “Oxford Comma,” and name-drop it in the lyrics to “Holiday” too. The “Holiday”-soundtracked Honda commercial focuses more on the winter season than the band associations, though “holiday,” in the context of the song, refers more to a summer vacation or trip abroad. Watch both commercials below:
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I would suggest Vampire Weekend re-recording the song for holiday purposes.
Damn. Thought I was going crazy this morning, when I turned around to face the TV and saw people jumping inside a car. I was like… wait a minute, are those people wearing Tommy Hilfiger?????
Fantastic Mr. Fox used Helvetica. Just sayin
Also that isn’t futura
They always did like to suck.
“Holiday” is the perfect song for advertisers. It doesn’t mention Christmas and therefore remains 100% politically correct. It doesn’t matter that the song has absolutely nothing to do with the holiday season and seems to hint more at war themes…
I like that they use stop-motion in the Honda commercial… perhaps trying to draw a connection to A-Punk music video?