There is this commercial that’s on a lot of LA radio stations, Star 98 in particular, but it turns up on almost all of them. “Are you tired of that daily struggle with shaving, waxing, plucking…” It’s for some kind of laser hair removal. And I cannot get away from it.. I change the station when I hear the beginning of it, but there’s no protection from flipping past it.
Now, it’s nothing against the product. I have my own depilatory machine, but I’m not denying other companies’ right to advertise. It’s this woman’s voice that I cannot stand. It’s so perky, and so liquid; she enunciates every word, but it sounds like her own struggle involves keeping her saliva from overflowing.
All right, I admit that I have a Pavlovian reason for disliking the commercial. In 9th grade, I had a teacher with a very similar voice, and god was she annoying. Cutesy, condescending, patronizing, enabling…Every time I hear this commercial, I see her face, caked with makeup, doing that puckering-lips, fluttering-eyelashes thing. I’m told I look like that during a seizure.
And it’s still on all the time, all over the dial.. “Are you tired…” Yes, bitch, I’m tired of you!
I’ve honestly never hated a commercial before. The ones I didn’t care for, I was able to tune out. This one, however, is going to drive me over the edge.