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Advertising: Not so cut throat this time

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First up, this is a non-sponsored piece… my 27 social media followers are hardly going to be influenced by me.

Thankfully the Single Edge 2.0 isn’t the edge of gory (apologies Lady Gaga)

I’m a cynical bastard. Several lifetimes in media / advertising / marketing will do that to you.

I’m extremely dubious of ads on social media (and everywhere), even though I’ve written a lot of them. Over the last few weeks I have been ignoring ads for a razor. Maybe the spooky algorithms knew I was going to write this.

After encountering a lot of their persistent ads and reading reviews on their website and with my BS detector set on its standard “ridiculous”, I bought the Single Edge 2.0, made in the US by a company aptly named Supply.

Single Edge 2.0 sounds all very iPhone… even the box is Apple-esque. Imagine an old school single blade razor your grandfather used, copulated with a gleaming metallic NASA-designed something. It’s very cool. Literally.

Apparently it was featured on Shark Tank which I have never watched. I assume it doesn’t involve a Steve Irwin type yelling “Crikey!” as a Great White devours him as an amuse-bouche, but I digress.

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I don’t overly enjoy shaving, it’s in the cleaning teeth department, but I’m not a fan of the clichéd hirsute hipster look, neither is my wife and I rather enjoy being married.

I’ve been using one of those those cartridge multi-blade razors forever. Yes, probably sadly sucked in by the spiel that if you’re not using a gazillion blades you will have a truly miserable life and no one will talk to you. The refills are expensive and not overly good for the planet.

The Single Edge 2.0 looks and feels impressive. I bought the alloy version (there’s a steel option and a kryptonite version is in the works) and it has some serious heft.

Supply was founded by a husband and wife team and their website is razor-slick and totally free of BS. Patrick and Jennifer of Supply guarantee all their products for 100 years, which should see me out. The company’s replies to trolls on their Instagram ads is quite amusing as well.

My verdict on the Single Edge 2.0? Thankfully it wasn’t the edge of gory (sorry Lady Gaga). For once you can believe the hype. Bravo Supply, you have a convert.

©Steve Williams 2020

“Smells like…?” The Rash of Celebrity Perfumes

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Dear people of the world. A doctorate on the psychology of people who purchase “celebrity perfumes” would be quite fascinating reading. I’m not that much of a deep-thinker so I’ll merely postulate — WTF?

I don’t get it. Do these fragrant-followers really want to smell like *insert celebrity name*?

Everything you need to purchase a celebrity perfume

I can honestly say I have never had the slightest desire to smell like Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, Bruce Willis, Peter Andre (c’mon, you remember Mysterious Girl – no?) or Elizabeth Taylor — especially not in her current state.

The other even more weird option, is that people feel a connection, or worse, want to be that person. That conjures up rather unsavoury images of Jame “Buffalo Bill” Gumb in The Silence of the Lambs who had something of a penchant for ladies’ coats — as it were.

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the creatively titled “Tabe” back in 1963. Since then, the floodgates have opened with athletes, singers, TV and film stars — and Peter Andre — all putting their name, sorry, being “heavily involved in every aspect of the design and production.”

Always one to outdo virtually everything and everyone, Lady Gaga’s “Fame” fragrance was reported to have notes of “blood and semen” in the media frenzy leading up to the launch.
No, I’m good, thanks Gaga. The end product was thankfully bodily fluid free, as usual the media were snapping up the morsels of bait she cleverly lobs their way.

Speaking of bait, I wonder if Beyoncé fans have turned up to one of her concerts having liberally doused themselves in “Heat” or “Pulse” so she’d notice them.

You’d like to think not, but then again…

©Steve Williams 2012

Going (Slightly) Gaga

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So I became an honorary “Little Monster” for a few hours last night. Lady Gaga brought The Born This Way Ball to Singapore and without going into what is apparently called “paws up” mode (ask a hardcore Gaga fan, they’ll tell you), I have to say it was a brilliant show. This was one of the very early stops of the massive world tour before she heads to New Zealand, then Australia and the rest of the cosmos.

*This may not be an actual part of Gaga’s meat lounge

Love her or hate her, whether you think she’s some weird meat-dress wearing psycho Madonna wannabe who seems to constantly forget her bra, or the much revered “Mother Monster”, you have to admire her talent. Seriously.

Without getting into major spoiler territory, expect to see a unicorn, an elaborate medieval castle set that opens and closes revealing numerous scenes and characters kind of like Gothic Barbie on acid, a meat lounge, a Gaga / Max Headroom lovechild, a rather unique way of riding a motorbike, spectacular costumes (loved the manic bee-keeper outfit) with a mesmerising number of über-quick changes, exceptional choreography from Gaga and her sickeningly buff and talented troupe of dancers, an interesting flavour of sausages emerging from a meat grinder, a machine gun bra and… more. That is possibly selling the rather involved storyline a fraction short, but personally, I was there for the music, not so much the theatrics, but Gaga delivered that and then some.

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Then there’s that voice… her power and range is quite incredible, all while riding a unicorn, a motorbike, scaling the battlements of her castle, performing outrageously intricate and I-desperately-need-to-lie-down inducing dance moves — all a total lip-synching free zone — in her chats between songs she is literally trying to catch her breath. Speaking of songs, all her hits are there — Born This Way, Poker Face, Paparazzi, Judas, Hair, You and I, Edge of Glory, Marry The Night, Bad Romance, Alejandro (I’ve probably left out a couple) and all faithful to the originals — no bullshit Gregorian chant meets John Williamson weird-arse reworking because “I’m an artiste” here.

If you get a chance, buy a ticket to the Ball. You don’t see or hear talent like this every day (or a unicorn or meat lounge).

©Steve Williams 2012