USA vs. World - All-Star 2026 NBA commercial that was shown during Superbowl LX - “Everybody wants to rule the world”
This would have gone hard if they’d just played the original song
100 percent agree. Weird auto tune vocals trying to fit the names to the beat were very forced. Especially “Le–bron” part
It’s AI slop audio and it’s cringe as hell. Some intern went to Elevanlabs and did this in an afternoon.
Is it actually AI? no wonder it sounds so off
Its not.
But everything reddit doesnt like is Ai SlOp!
And God forbid you’re articulate and can write in complete sentences. You’ll be called a bot every time.
I’m gonna start putting em dashes in my comments to keep them on their toes.
The rise of LLMs has hit me super hard because I actually used to use em dashes. Now I can’t anymore, it’s too suspicious.
Anti-intellectualism won the battle in America long long ago.
Especially when they absolutely could’ve just said “Bron” and been fine
For real, changing the lyrics to songs like this never comes off as anything other than cheesy imo
‘we love you bron, we really need you, no other city’s gonna love you half as much as we do’
the exception
Its one of the best songs of all time.
Definitely! Im like “seriously “
Yeah, but this way the PR firm was able to charge them five times the price
Should have just played the Gru and Maxime Le Mal rendition.
This shit made me laugh, it was so awful
Hasn’t this been running for like a month now
They not watching the games, P Kevin Garnett voice
There’s no ads when you stream, so I have no idea what ads people who pay have to watch lol
this is a new version. SGA notably missing (for obvious reasons).
had to scroll to the bottom to find this lol. it’s definitely been running for weeks at this point
Never fails. Always gotta scroll to find the real ones lol
Tbh you’re not seeing these on league pass guy
You guys were on NBC three weeks ago.
I don’t have cable, so don’t normally watch commercials
The previous version was only with the starters, so it is a bit different
Apparently not everywhere or in every streaming platform.
Idk I kinda like this
Okay, I’m not the only one.
It crosses the plateau of lame into being kinda fun
Nope Ape 🦍, you’re not alone
No, just the only two.
Old mfers love ai
do y’all just assume everything is AI now? jesus this is trivial audio work
I kinda do. It’s trivial audio work, but it’s even more trivial AI gen.
The vocals sound like every other AI song that has come out. The Siakam and LeBron are laughably obvious
lol, it’s definitely not trivial audio work. This is ai voice gen like elevenlabs. There’s like 20 saas apps that do this type of AI music nonsense.
You can also just slam a filter over a guy in a booth and get it done in 5 minutes too lol
This is r/nba so you gotta hate.
*This is the internet, hate sells/gets upvotes/likes…
I fuc wit it fr it’s just unfortunate that we know the players dgaf bout the game lol
Sorry everyone sue me but this is 🔥
They probably spent tens of millions on this shit and it might’ve turned more ppl off it.
I miss when nba commercials were good, u guys remember the one where they edited in modern and history legends together so it looked like they were playing together?
Not NBA commercials strictly speaking, but Nike/Wieden+Kennedy are responsible for many of the greatest ads ever made, and I can never resist the opportunity to share my personal favorites, the Fun Police:
Boring Game
Pass the Ball
Interrogation
Fun Nicknames
Cheap Seats
Laundromat
The Fun of a Nation
Ticky Tack
These are so good thank you for linking them!
Absolute cinema, that one.
And even for the less “serious” ones, Timber for the 2013 playoffs will always live rent free in my head.
Jingle bells with jumpshots and LeBron dunk to finish it off was peak
This one? NBA Forever is one of my favorite ads of all time.
Yep that’s the one
I’m just waiting for a new “grandmama”
The Elle Goulding Thunder playoff commercial from 2012 might be the goat. https://youtu.be/Jo_GvWxGmuc
This shit stinks wtf is this 😭 it legit looks like one of those meme tiktok edits.
Respect TikTok edits they’re way better than this crap
A 13 year old made this with AI after discovering the original song
This would’ve been better with the original song.
This is satire, right?
Such well known stars as Cunnin and Mitche
Shit at least they got screen time. Poor Barnes
Like why didn’t they just use Cade? Stupid.
AI forgot how to spell.
This might have been the worst thing I have ever seen
this was somehow worse than the super bowl itself
The world team looks ridiculous. Thats with sga and Gianni’s out
Yeah if no injuries and everyones healthy (obviously not the case), you probably see a starting 5 of
Luka, SGA, Giannis, Embiid, Jokic with Wemby being 6th man
Didn’t Embiid just help win Gold for Team USA in the last Olympics? Would be kind of strange for him to play for Team World in the ASG no?
True that’s why the whole thing is confusing
Guys like Embiid, KAT can play for both
If Embiid is USA it balances it out more since the USA is critically low on elite bigs
Yeah, you’re right, it would be strange, but Embiid is not an all star this year.
I would be surprised if Luka isnt out with a hammy.
NBC and Amazon have been a breathe of fresh air
I liked it. It’s cute.
Siakam barely got a second.
It shouldve been Luka, not Doncic.
Yeah sounds like shit
lame
this is nearly as bad as regular season NBA basketball. wow
No KD in the lyrics but shows KD. :(
Oh god this has me cringing so hard.
lol lowkey catchy
Wait till you hear the original version
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Autotune was once just a tool then it became abused and ruined music forever.
They should’ve used the Lorde cover they used for the Assassins Creed trailer, absolutely banger and cinematic version of this song
That cover is in one of the Hunger Games movies as well.
What NBA social media nerd or marketing goof decided it was a good idea to make these cornball lyrics and not stick to the original song?
This is fire. Y’all trippin lol
Deni over Leonard is a joke. That war criminal doesn’t belong at the all star game
This has been playing for like the last couple of weeks. Once again another piece of evidence that reddit users dont actually watch the games.
All star weekend in 2026 😂✌🏼
SGA not even there?
It’s only bc he’s not playing
Everyone must have piss in their cereal lol this is fine
i dont know i feel like this ad sucked
Why would you not just…use the actual song??
Probably costs $$ to get the rights to it
AI voices for music are so bad currently.
Booker hate again.. im tired boss
Wow. A bit embarrassing
Those balkan boys made going to RIP team USA apart if they play seriously 😄
Avdija is half Yugoslav so half Balkan as well.
I actually love this. Makes me very excited to watch.
Kawhi left out, when he’s better than all of those. 🤡
I’m convinced y’all don’t like anything including watching the actual games 🤣🤣🤣🤣
EDIT: I’ll call myself out slightly. This sub pretty universally agrees the Amazon Prime broadcast is dope.
Boycott NBA for this ai slop
Fucking AI ad by the NBA. How much more would it cost to get a human do these vocals ffs. But I guess that’s what you expect from the league that’s dickriding a genocidal IDF soldier.