Bon Jovi rocks on in cup noodles commercial
Entertainment ( 14 )
TOKYO —
The latest installment of Nissin Foods’ Cup Noodles commercials, in which famous artists parody their lyrics to sing about the budget noodles, started airing on TV this week, and features footage of Bon Jovi performing “You Give Love a Bad Name” at London’s Wembley Stadium in 1995.
The fourth installment of Cup Noodles commercials this year comes after R&B singer MISIA’s “Everything,” British funk band Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity” and power pop group GLAY’s “HOWEVER” featured in the first three.
In the latest commercial, the original lyrics of “Shot through the heart, And you’re too blame, You give love a bad name, I play my part and you play your game, You give love a bad name, You give love…a bad name,” have been changed to “Musukosan, wa Chu san de, Juken benkyo shiteta, Yashoku no kappu nudoru, Okasan ga wasureta, Musokosan wa…suneta.” The new lyrics tell the story of a third year junior high school boy studying for his exams, and his mother forgetting his late night cup noodles, leading the boy to sulk.
The 15 and 30-second versions of the commercial can also be seen at the products’ web site: http://www.cupnoodle.jp/cm/index.html.
Bon Jovi released their latest “best of” album “Bon Jovi GREATEST HITS” last week, and will play at Tokyo Dome on Nov 30 and Dec 1.
Order by Time Order by Popularity
14 Comments
Login to comment
0
Lunchbox
Anyone remember the old "Hungry?" cup noodle commercials, with the cavemen chasing the dinosaurs? They were hilarious in their time.
0
Fadamor
So is Jon really singing in Japanese or are they just dubbing the words over the 1995 concert video? (Gee, I guess I just answered my own question?)
0
Laguna
Lunchbox, thanks for using "dinosaurs" regarding and article about Bon Jovi.
0
pamelot
Just add hot water...
Enough with this MISIA, R and B singer... She's J-Pop with a beat. I realize the record company has deemed her "R and B", but "Just because a record's got a groove don't make it in the groove"
Ruth Brown, Junior Walker and the All Stars, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Ko Ko Taylor, Solomon Burke, Otis Redding, that's Rhythm and Blues...
Just add hot water...
0
namabiru4me
Comeback!
0
Osakadaz
Pamelot>how dare you forget Sam Cooke? Lol
0
MrDog
The Japanese sure know how to make tacky commercials to appeal to their childish sense of humor.
Changing the words to a song. Wow. Are they going to get Simon Le Bon to pull a face while Ozzy Osbourne slaps him on the back of the head next?
0
bobbafett
oh you poor little boy who cannot stop at lawsons and buy your own noodles and then go home and not know how to boil water too. waah, waah, mamas boy cry baby.
0
cactusJack
wet noodles = Bon Jovi. Makes sense.
0
trulymadlyfukai
Words. Fail. Me.
0
Mittsu
Mothers here are way more servile to their sons than in the West. He is quite right to sulk about lack of noodle. And don't knock BJ - seems a harmless way to make a pile of money.
0
pamelot
@ Osakadaz: Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers... Right on!
0
jruaustralia
Lovely!
0
EbiChiri
Bon Jovi is the God of Noodles. I will use my solid gold chopsticks to eat his holy noodles.
Back to top