I have an unusually strong crush on the blonde haired chick. That is all.
Somehow I think all the people in those commercials were picked based on their attractiveness/cuteness.
And to a much smaller extent, their singing ability.
Ditto for me. Plus that sultry voiced black babe. Rowr, baby!
Bucking for detective. eh? Even with modern technology it’s easier for a pretty girl to lip-synch Celine Dion than it will EVER be to reverse the process…
An unusual tactic but one that just might be copied by such unlikely people as beer companies, fashion designers and every single other company in existence.
I find the whole ad campaign freaky and disturbing, for some odd reason.
Yeah, it IS disturbing in a stepford wife/ pleasantville kind of way. The singers are *too * perfect, like they were fabricated by the marketers out of stock parts. And the ludicrous jingle is made even creepier by their robotic recitation.
It’s just crazy enough to work.
I like that girl in the truck bed-liner commercials. (The one mimicking the ‘for the cost of a cup of coffee a day’ donation commercials)
She’s hot without being perfect/creepy.
Oh! Oh! Me too! I can’t take my eyes off the screen when those ads come up (thankfully, it’s every 3rd one!) and I just wait with brimming anticipation for her ever too brief close up.
I think I am in love.
The little boy in front is a robot, right? He has to be, or my entire world will collapse around me. He has no discernable humanity at all. When I look at him, it’s like my eyes slide right off of him and I am left with the feeling that I saw something evil but I can’t quite remember what it was.
It’s the tall Asian babe in the back row who does it for me.
Nothing odd about the freakiness. When I die and am flung into the sulphurous bowels of Hell, I fully expect to find those people standing there with pitch forks. Creeeepy.
There’s something about these commercials that make we want to hit people in the face with an iron.
Oh, man, me too. I just think about taking that tambourine out of her hand and insterting something of my own.
Oops, I seem to have stumbled out of the TMI thread by mistake
I’ve not seen the Old Navy commercial or the one you’re talking about either but the girl that really gets to me is the one in the Levis commercial where the dog chases her down to tear her pants off to give back to his master. Very, very cute.
I just found a new girl in those ads to drool over. In the bowling alley pajama ad, the girl bowler they’re singing to. So pretty my eyes exploded. Damn.
Um, your eyes are further up. Somebody get **NoClueBoy **a towel! 
I personally, think these are funny, because they appear to be self-mocking for two reasons:
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The person who the Carolers are singing to always looks confused, as if to say, “Who are these people, and what the hell are they doing in my house/supermarket/attic/bowling alley/what have you?”
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The carols don’t rhyme, which makes them even funnier. It’s just an attempt by the Carolers to sing the praises of Old Navy’s sale items to the tune of a Christmas carol. To hell with clever lyrics! Just push the product! (And the un-clever lyrics actually are clever.)
I haven’t seen an Old Navy spot that makes me want their products. They mostly make me want to kick stuff.
Uhm. Right. That’s the whole point of the comercials.
To elaborate on what mobo85 said, the ads are a satire on whole concept and practice of advertising. Those people and their songs are supposed to be creepily plastic and artificial, but at the same time attractive and catchy enough to get the name Old Navy stuck in your conciousness (as they apparently have.) You may not like it, but the idea that they satire advertising, even while trying to sell you something, is exactly the sort of pseudo- (and meta-) irony that appeals to these “Generation Y” kids, who are so “sophisticated,” they’ve become jaded about cynicism.