78 "GAP released an ad in retaliation to Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad…but nobody even noticed. Because it looks like EVERY single woke garbage ad we’ve been seeing for the last 4 years.. 💀💀"(😉🤭😆) (twitter.com) posted 290 days ago by purkiss80 290 days ago by purkiss80 +78 / -0 30 comments share 30 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Oddly, this hip-hop "modern" ad owes a debt of gratitude to a 1930s film director and choreographer, Busby Berkeley. Here is just one example of many scenes he directed and choreographed, this one from a 1937 film called "Varsity Show."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKIq_AaJBWs
Everything old is new again, I guess.
Also, portions of it reminded me of the June Taylor Dancers:
https://youtu.be/z_gXTuIAMVM?t=83
Good catch. This GAP ad is so derivative and unoriginal.