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Pop-Chips

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Here we have Pop-Chips’ Katy Perry “nothing fake about‘em,” picture advertisement. The advertisement, which is one from a series of Pop-Chips campaign with Katy Perry, uses a celebrity icon to promote their product. She is wearing a blue and black dress, holding Pop-Chips; one in each hand to cover her breasts. Makeup wise she is wearing simple lipstick, eye liner, and there is clearly something applied to her eye¬brows to make them seem darker. Her eye’s are glancing upward at the large typeface “nothing fake about‘em,” and under that is her own statement about Pop-Chips, which is; “I’m not into phony, good thing there’s nothing fake or phony in Pop-Chips. They only taste like they’re bad for you.” In the bottom left corner of the advertisement, …show more content…

The caption in the background is “nothing fake about‘em.” Now this has two major implications to be made here. One being the concern of health foods, and with that the associated look of being healthy. Natural is the underlying message of the advertisement. This is a product with natural ingredients and naturally made, whatever that means. People look for low calorie healthy snack alternatives all the time. There is built in desire to being healthy, because being healthy means being fit, and being fit means being attractive. So, who better to advertise Pop-Chips, other than Katy Perry, a woman who is considered beautiful based on current cultural standards. Here is a sexy, busty woman, and Pop-Chips wants to capitalize on this. She has natural breasts, and Pop-Chips are natural. So, the other implication of the picture is the defining of the correlation of beauty standards to being healthy, and Pop-Chips being the item to help you achieve being …show more content…

Here is Katy Perry, a sex icon, eating something natural. You should be like her, you should look like her. If you take the effect of desire, in terms of someone as a celebrity, subconscious thoughts will be made by the female consumer. One of which being is I can be sexier and more fit, naturally, if I eat the food Katy Perry eats. When in the supermarket, if Pop-Chips are seen, the consumer want to eat what Katy Perry eats to stay slim and sexy. Targeting the female mind, although possibly harmful, is an extremely efficient marketing technique. If I can make a woman feel uncomfortable in her own skin, and make her feel undesired by comparison, I can sell her a product she will assumingly link to beauty. Now this is exaggerated in the advertisement with the advertisement’s physical statement, “nothing fake about’em.” Regarding Katy Perry’s breasts, they are natural, they are not fake, just like you. She did nothing different from you to achieve the look you see in this advertisement, so you can do the same by just eating

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