When Meetings End Up Feeling Like This …
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March 18, 2019, 6:15 am
Filed under: A Bit Of Inspiration, Advertising, Agency Culture, Attitude & Aptitude, Authenticity, Brand Suicide, Creativity, Culture, Empathy, Insight, Management, Marketing, Marketing Fail, Planners, Planners Making A Complete Tit Of Themselves And Bless, Planning, Prejudice, Presenting, Professionalism, Standards
Filed under: A Bit Of Inspiration, Advertising, Agency Culture, Attitude & Aptitude, Authenticity, Brand Suicide, Creativity, Culture, Empathy, Insight, Management, Marketing, Marketing Fail, Planners, Planners Making A Complete Tit Of Themselves And Bless, Planning, Prejudice, Presenting, Professionalism, Standards
We have all had bad pitch meetings.
When things don’t just go wrong, but go terribly.
Politics.
Bad attitudes.
Going on too long.
Terrible work.
Great work they think is terrible.
Stand-up rows.
Professional fails.
Arrogance and abuse.
Lack of response.
Stupidity.
But the next time it happens – however angry, sad, pissed off it may makes you feel – look at this video and remember, it could have been so much worse. It could be Kylie bad.
You’re welcome.
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Wow. Just wow.
Comment by Bazza March 18, 2019 @ 6:23 amNow I understand “I should be so lucky” was ironic.
Comment by Bazza March 18, 2019 @ 6:26 amDo you know the history of that song?
Comment by Rob March 18, 2019 @ 8:02 amThe producers (Stock, Aitken & Waterman) forgot she was coming in to record a song. They knew nothing about her except she was a soap star and pretty so they wrote that song in 40 minutes based on the belief that if she was lucky in life, she couldn’t be lucky in love. Ironically, it seems they were right.
I am sad and impressed you know that.
Comment by Bazza March 18, 2019 @ 8:38 amyou truly are a sad fuck campbell.
Comment by andy@cynic March 18, 2019 @ 5:04 pmThis is not a video of a singer performing to a rude and uninterested audience. This is a video how women have been controlled by senior men in business.
Comment by Mary Bryant March 18, 2019 @ 6:44 amYou’re right. The music and film industries are the worst. Any success let management believe they geniuses so artists do what they’re told thinking they are working with people who have a plan. Problem is they’re just working with people who have an enormous ego. It’s why whenever an artist fails they are blamed for their situation and dropped without any hesitation.
Comment by Bazza March 18, 2019 @ 6:57 amThe audience were right wing, Spanish politicians who were holding a conference to discuss party policies. Which makes Kylie’s appearance there even more bizarre. I would guess it was her management team owning someone a favour which means they didn’t care about Kylie, just themselves. Which links to Rob’s bad management post because this must have destroyed Kylie.
Comment by Pete March 18, 2019 @ 7:18 amYep. You’re right Mary. Though music bosses would claim they have never made decisions based on gender – which is obviously bollocks – even though they’ll point to the amount of young male bands/singers they have also abused and destroyed in the interests of their own self preservation/success. As they say, power corrupt and you don’t have to look far to ass how true that can be.
Comment by Rob March 18, 2019 @ 8:07 amI have newfound respect for Kylie and a new level of hatred for the people who told her this would be a good for her career.
Comment by Pete March 18, 2019 @ 7:10 amThis is an appropriately timed post. Aren’t you presenting with Bob Greenberg today? I wonder if he will have the look of the audience from this video as he watches you present in your best Kylie style. With swearing instead of dancing. Hopefully.
Comment by George March 18, 2019 @ 7:33 amYep. This video has prepared me well for everyone’s reaction to me being on stage with our founder. I’m expecting the same look I got when I was with Mr Wieden. Both from the audience and the legend himself. Haha.
Comment by Rob March 18, 2019 @ 8:09 amdone it yet? let me rephrase it. fired yet?
Comment by andy@cynic March 18, 2019 @ 5:04 pmOnly a matter of time:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvKCqjBBCKG/
Comment by Rob March 18, 2019 @ 5:52 pmHow are you not fired? How do you get away with this stuff?
Comment by DH March 18, 2019 @ 10:37 pmMaybe, just maybe, she was performing for the huge TV audience that would have accompanied a right-wing political debate in 90s Spain.
Comment by John March 18, 2019 @ 10:22 amDespite the awfulness of the audience, the stand-out thing for me in that video is Kylie; consistently brilliant from start to finish. She was the most powerful person in that room; not giving them the pleasure of letting their behaviour get to her – a consummate professional to the very end.
Comment by Oli March 18, 2019 @ 10:43 amI hope at the very least she fired her management team immediately after the performance.
Comment by George March 18, 2019 @ 11:02 amwe never fired campbell and he put us in messes that make this shit like the an army research lab of a deadly fucking diseases.
Comment by andy@cynic March 18, 2019 @ 5:04 pmComment of the day goes to Andy.
Comment by DH March 18, 2019 @ 10:38 pmbefore you piss on kylie campbell, consider this. she faces all this shit and she performs flawlessly. you could have a fucking audience of campbell fan club robots and it still would look like charlie sheen after an all night fucking booze bender.
Comment by andy@cynic March 18, 2019 @ 5:02 pmYou don’t have to tell me that. I know.
Comment by Rob March 18, 2019 @ 5:50 pmThat would be an even smaller audience.
Comment by John March 18, 2019 @ 11:51 pm