Lunch in Translation: I Just Called to Shill for Coffee

This one is tough for me.  Making fun of Stevie Wonder gives me no pleasure.  He’s a certifiable genius and was the most vital and important factor in music during the first half of the 1970s.  Talking Book and Innervisions represent the fifth greatest back-to-back album combination of the rock & roll era. But I must do what I must do.

Here’s the man who wrote “Superstition” and “Living for the City”… in a terrible Japanese commercial for coffee.  Excuse me while I pound my head against the wall.

Full critique, and the final verdict on how big a sell-out this ad is…after the jump.

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