Chris Brown’s Song Brought To You By Wrigley, Ad Concept Brought To You By iTunes

noah | August 4, 2008 8:53 am
Maybe I’m still dealing with residual Chris Martin-on-the-brain after seeing not one, but two new Coldplay videos yesterday, but the first thing I thought of when I saw Chris Brown’s commercial for Wrigley’s Doublemint gum–which uses the hook from the teen heartthrob’s secretly sponsored by Wrigley top-ten track “Forever”–was the iTunes ad that used “Viva La Vida” and a lot of similar flashing-light tricks. Sure, there are differences (the color schemes, Brown’s infinitely superior dance moves), but some enterprising YouTuber could probably cut together the two clips and come up with something neat. Especially since I just played the two ads simultaneously and Martin’s vocals actually sounded kinda decent over the Brown track’s sinuous, Polow Da Don-assisted keyboards. Coldplay ad afer the jump.

Chris Brown Wrigley’s commercial [YouTube] VIVA LA VIDA – COLDPLAY iTunes commercial [YouTube]