#18: 6 SONGS OF (PASSING) YOUTH

Oh, sweet fleeting youth: you are my stealth future, unyielding present and dimming past...

Depressed yet?

Here are six songs on youth (and its poetic passing...):

1.  "Youth" by Foxes (video here)

2.  "We Can't Stop" by Miley Cyrus (video here)

3.  "Float" by Pacific Air (video here)

4.  "Youth" by Daughter (video here)

5.  "I Could Be the One" by Avicii vs Nicky Romero (video here)

6. "Despair" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (video here)

  -MTK

#11: POSTER PARALLEL - THE BEDROOM SCENE

For the promotion of their third season, the cast of ABC's Happy Endings farcically followed suit with the somewhat bizarre trend of featuring a television series' ensemble cast posing together in bed. 

Cast of ABC's Happy Endings (2012)

Whether nude, fully clothed or a combination of both (oddly portrayed in the 1994 Friends poster below) number of things could be communicated through this type of campaign (the obvious being sex, youth and boundlessly undefined intimacy and companionship).  It's also a convenient way to squeeze everyone into frame...

Whenever I notice this theme, I just think of Paul Mazursky's progressive, ultra-"swinging" '60s film Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and it's famous image of the cast (two sets of couples played by Elliot Gould, Natalie Wood, Robert Culp and Dyan Cannon) naked and in bed with the tagline: "Consider the Possibilities".

Here are some examples of this odd trend from various television campaigns throughout the past decade:

Friends (1994)

Gossip Girl (2007)

One Tree Hill (2003)

Queer as Folk (2000)

-MTK