Every Classic Aussie Jingle Just Got Mashed Together In This Perfect TikTok
Frank Walker's National Tiles + the Reading Writing Hotline = Bliss.
Even after all these years, if someone was to approach me on the street and utter “low fat no fat full cream”, I would easily and enthusiastically be able to recite the following: “high calcium high protein soy lite skim omega three [BREATH] high calcium with vitamin d and folate or extra dollup?”
Ads and jingles stick in our brain like toffee-coated limpets — which is, of course, entirely the point — and the Aussie jingles of the ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s, in particular, were seemingly made with some kind of forbidden Eden apple juice. Only recently, ABC ad show Gruen tracked down the composers of the Cottee’s cordal jingle, and the Bunnings theme song, to ask just how the hell they came up with such sticky tunes.
And damn, do they make for some good cover songs. Genes, a fresh pop singer from Melbourne (via Townsville) has spent the last couple of days cobbling together a stack of iconic old jingles and theme songs — from Frank Walker National Tiles to the Reading Writing Hotline to Bunnings to Mortein to Coles and Woolies/Safeway.
She’s knitted them all together into a pop that’s…somewhat disturbingly good.
“The jingles were such an iconic part of any ’90s Aussie kids childhood, and maybe I’d even go as far as saying it’s the reason why I can write such catchy hooks now,” Genes told Music Junkee. “Growing up I would just soak up every melody I heard… humming the Reading Writing Hotline in the mornings before school. There’s so many good ones — I could probably do a five part series. Also, Frank Walker from National tiles is an ICON.”
Check it all out below.
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Genes dropped her latest single ‘Cherry Lips’ last week, and it’s well worth checking out.