That's Different: Diet Dr. Pepper-Those Eyes!

11/29/07 Update - I found the commercial!  See below.

It's a diet Dr. Pepper commercial.  A familiar Tom Jones' tune provides common ground, the hook-in.  I'm not even sure what the commercial is supposed to be about.  To me, it's about the girl and those eyes...they speak about a generation.

The end of the commercial shows a college-age guy sitting on a bus.  He hears a slurping, air-sucking sound and makes a face.  This is the same face that girls make when presented with something that grosses them out.  It's usually accompanied by a "ewwwww!"  On a side note I live to be the producer of moments like these with my girls and wife.  The scene cuts away to a college-age girl sitting across from the dude, sipping diet Dr. Pepper through a straw.  Continuing to make the noise she looks toward the guy with these big, sort of innocent looking eyes.  Those eyes say, "Too bad it grosses you out, I feel pretty good about it myself."

To me this is Gen Y saying to those folks who make the ewwwww face at them, "Too bad you don't like this and that about me, I feel pretty good about myself, I don't think I'll change."  And here is why I think this girl with those eyes epitomizes this thought:  Not one facial muscle implies defiance. It's simply who she is.

Note to dave in the future:  You loved the spirit of this generation.  Folks like Anastasia Goodstein, Penelope Trunk, Danah Boyd and Lisa Johnson, worked to clear the pathway for Gen Y while educating the rest of us.

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