Annotations: I Got You What You Want For Christmas

This is one of my Songs Written To Order, where John The Publisher receives a BRIEF saying what an advert will look like AND/OR a rough video of it, with some ideas about what the song should be like.

We got quite a LOT of information about this one - a full-length version of the final advert and whole HEAPS of stuff about how the whole CAMPAIGN was going to be about getting the perfect gift for special people. I really liked that idea and TRANSMOGRIFIED it slightly into getting something that the person would actually LIKE - coming from a large family I'm aware of the Occasional Politics of Christmas Presents. Presents are bought for all sorts of reasons - to persuade people to like things YOU like, to make a point about what you think they should be doing, or just to show off - so I thought I'd have a think about just buying something they'd LIKE themselves.

I also thought that'd make a nice change from people BANGING ON about The Commercialisation Of Christmas. Christmas IS commercial, it IS a time of BUYING and GETTING stuff and surely only the most miserable of MISERABLE OLD SODS can REALLy object to that when it's done with LOVE.

Anyway, as usualy the song didn't get used - INDEED it ended up being one of a LEGION of adverts I've written songs for that ended up usings A Girl Singing A Stripped Down Version Of a Popular Tune, this time "From Me To You", as you can hear if you watch the final broadcast version on Youtube.

This is probably the song I'm most disappointed about NOT getting into the advert. I really honestly LIKE John Lewis, I LOVE Christmas and I LOVE this song, they could have been GRATE together!