This Creative Was Rejected by the WSJ and NYT.

fuck-recession.jpg

And that’s pretty much all the PR people have going for it. The idea behind “Recess is on” is for Morgan Hotel Group to look like a bad-ass place to party amidst the crippling buzzkill of a recession.

See minimalist rebel prints:

o Don’t Jump. Dance.
o Fuck the recession. Powerful in brevity.
o Fuck the recession — reprise. This ad also includes a letter written by Morgan Hotel Group to a personified Recession, flippantly declaring its intention to raise hell and whatnot. “Fuck off” is written at bottom in surprisingly girly script. (I think a sharp, all-caps and slightly Nicholson-esque “FUCK OFFFFFFFFFfff” would have done the job better.)

The website, linked above, also includes an epilepsy-inducing :60 video that’ll be projected upon some unfortunate building. Or not. Word has it the creative will be changed and repeated use of “fuck” will be scrubbed.

“Whatever happened to defiance?” the rep from Pronto Stockholm asked us. Well, fuck if we know.

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