Kmart Christmas Commercial and the Lights that Light the Lights

By Juli Rossi in 2012, Electronic · November 8, 2012 · 47 comments

Tags: Bogo, Christmas, geocaching, Grasscut, Kmart, Lights, M25, pogo, Shell Grotto

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Kmart commercial

Song: Lights
Artist: Grasscut
Download it, son:
Lights (M25 Version) - Pieces - EP

Kmart has been killin it with commercials this year, and this Kmart Christmas commercial is no exception.   I mean, coupling Bogo with pogo has a kind of whimsical Spock Logic to it.  Can’t believe we’ve never done that before.

Readers Clay, Pat, Ariel, Drew, Marcus, and bunch of others requested this song all week – so thanks guys, and keep them coming. Let’s spell it – the song is “Lights” by Grasscut.  I’m going out on a limb and guessing that Grasscut’s name is a pun on an old summer job.  Musicians are totally a bunch of grasscutters.

Apparently, Grasscut utilizes the Geocaching movement with their music, sending fans traipsing around England and Wales looking for boxes that you can find through clues in their latest album, UnEarth (get it?  I knew there would be wicked puns going on) which basically sounds like the greatest idea I’ve ever heard in my life.

Each song refers to a hidden box – you can find a list of the locations on the Grasscut website, but while you’re here: “Lights” references the Shell Grotto in Margate, Kent.  Once you get there you’ll scout out the box yourself, but if you download “Lights” on iTunes you can listen to clues while sleuthing (rad).  Nestled in each box is a Walkman and headphones that play a “shadow version” of the song, and if you Instagram yourself listening to the Walkman in the correct location, Grasscut will send you a signed copy of their “shadow album,” which sounds like a spookysupercool mystery.  Get to it, British gumshoes.

This version of “Lights” is called the “M25″ version and I have no idea what that means.  After intense googling I narrowed it down to the first three entries on Google:

1. M25 Sniper Rifle
2. Messier 25, an open cluster of stars in Sagittarius constellation
3. M25 Motorway encircling London

I was so sure it was a reference to the motorway, and then I found out the M25 does not go through Kent (maps!), and now I’m all discombobulated.  Whatevs. Check out the Kmart Christmas commercial below.

The lights, the lights, the lights that light the lights

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  • astromech

    M25 means Merry Christmas. since its kind of a holiday theme and 25 is the day of Christmas

    • http://whatsongisinthatcommercial.com Rassles

      HOHOHOHOHOa;lkjsdf;kjsd;fjdsklfjds
      Wait…that can’t be right. Is that right? You guys?

      Maybe it means 30% of M83.

      • Jessica Thompson

        Is this version of the song called M25, or this version of the commercial?

        • http://whatsongisinthatcommercial.com Rassles

          It’s the version of the song. I don’t know if it’s like, the “shadow version” or if it’s OG, but there are two versions on YouTube and iTunes.

    • Helen

      PlEASE>FOR THE VERY LOVE OF JESUS,> k-mart K-Mart K-MArt K-MART SEARS SEArs SEars sears “CUT” The Lights Commercial.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Sean D.

    Annoying song but cute and clever ads. Change the music and it’s a winner. Right now I just want to pop my eardrums.

    • V

      Omg im soooo with you on that. For that commercial alone.. I HATE Kmart lol

  • veronica

    this song is so annoying omg

  • Christi H.

    I’m with Sean. I changed the channel while watching my favorite show during the commercials because hearing that song again would have made me want to pop my eardrums – it played more than 11 times during the show!

  • Cathy L.

    M25 represents the London Orbital motorway.

  • BDiamond
  • Sandy

    Cannot stand the song. I put my fingers in my ears and go LALALLALALA It’s gonna be a long Christmas season!!

  • Larson

    I hate this none Christmas song. What were you thinking k-mart!!! Please save yourself and get a new one before everyone boycotts your store!!

  • Nicole

    I love this song and yes the M25 is the exact version that is featured in the commercial. The original version is very slow with no bass.

    Also, M25 does sound like Merry 25th, but I can’t be sure.

    • http://whatsongisinthatcommercial.com Rassles

      What if it’s a personals abbreviation like: M25 seeks F25. Likes long walks on the beach, must love dogs.

  • Nicole

    Btw, anyone with Spotify has access to all versions of this song. ;)

  • http://whatsongisinthatcommercial Daniel

    This is one of the most f***ing annoying songs I’ve ever heard. And to write an article about it! Really?

    • http://whatsongisinthatcommercial.com Rassles

      Well, we run on requests. So you know, if you want, you can request a commercial that has a song you actually like and we’ll write about that.

  • connie

    I am with the other commenters about boycotting Kmart over the WORST, MOST IRRITATING song ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did I say ever? Now everybody sing along…”it sucks the suck it sucks the suck, it sucks it sucks it sucks it sucks.

    • V

      Omg im dying laughing…it does suck

  • robert demarest

    yes this is it! i downloaded it from i tunes! thank you!

  • Hatesthissong

    PLEASE K-MART, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, CHANGE THIS SONG!!!

    Once was enough. 26 times every 2 hours… KILL ME NOW

    • jal

      This was the best comment about the most awful most obnoxious commercial that I have ever seen in he half century I have been on this earth…you made me laugh out loud hysterically..I never do that…thanks…if you would just get rid of that commercial I would put you in my will which does not include anything from Kmart…I’ve burned the lot of it….

      • NoMoreKMart

        I refuse to shop there anymore due to this horribly irritating commercial that makes me want to rip my brain out of my head just to avoid hearing that song again.

  • Rick

    People who think this song is annoying, are watching too much TV!

    • Carol

      What? If you turn on the TV and the commercial airs right then, you have hardly watched too much TV. And you only have to hear it once to find it most annoying!

  • L A

    Who is the tranny that is in “the lights… the lights… the lights” commercial??!

  • LA

    Is that a tranny in the commercial?

  • Karen

    The M25 does go though Kent. I’ve driven on it several times.

    • http://whatsongisinthatcommercial.com Rassles

      A HA! A Redcoat! Thanks for that – I’m assuming this solves the mystery, then.

  • Barb

    What an obnoxious commercial. What are they selling anyway….lights? Of course it doesn’t help that they play it e dry 15 minutes.

  • Carl

    This song has been playing on repeat in my head all week. I’m so glad I found the name of it. haha

  • Mike

    Very annoying song!

  • diane

    glad to see i am not the only one sick of it, i will not go into that store and am ready to shut off the telly til the friggin season is over!

  • Jennifer

    Won’t be shopping at Kmart simply because that stupid song on all their commercials is so effing annoying.

  • Maxwerm

    I hate the song so much that I googles it only to end up here to find out who in the world was assaulting my eardrums.
    Hate it. So, so bad.

  • Steve

    “People who think this song is annoying, are watching too much TV!”

    Hearing this absolutely mind-numbing “song”/jingle/torturous chant/two words repeated over and over/whatever, just ONE time will make you hate K-Mart, Christmas, and lights in just 30 seconds.

  • KRoe

    I hate the song, but I also can’t tell what they are selling? I can’t tell – they play people bumping butts in slow motion and the next thing I know a box explodes into confetti. And yes, before they had closeups of transvestites with their faces frozen in fear for Halloween or something. But they don’t seem to have anything on sale or anything. It’s just really slow motion people screaming in fear while the damn song repeats. I think they are the only store that didn’t have big ads for Black Friday and everything, just these weird frozen trannies and the damn song.

    • http://whatsongisinthatcommercial.com Rassles

      “Frozen Trannies” is the name of my imaginary band.

  • Sheila Walters

    I hate hate hate this commercial because of the awful song!!! May it’s that Austrailian (?) accent that makes it especially obnoxious. Are there really people out there who like it??!

  • Rob

    I actually found this page trying to find out what in the hell they were even saying in this nightmare of a commercial. Still not sure – delights – the lights – whatever. The ads make no sense and I have never heard a more obnoxious song in my 60 years. Then, to discover here that it is an actual song that some people actually like…well, lets just say I am now convinced the world will indeed end on the 21st. If the goal is to annoy people into never setting foot in their store again they have succeeded here! Every time it comes on I waver between throwing something through the TV or killing myself.

  • prissy

    Freaking annoying song makes me want to kill somebody.

  • amy

    This song is a crapfest. There’s no other way to describe it without cursing. I saw the commercial four times today and had to plug my ears to stop the bleeding. It is GOD-AWFUL.

  • Bluefox

    So sick of this FN commercial and song!

  • holly

    This is THE most annoying commercial jingle I have ever had the unpleasant experience of enduring on every channel on TV for every 15 minutes for the first month it was aired. I will never buy anything from Kmart until they completely remove this terrible tune.

  • holly

    Thank God it’s almost over!!!!!

  • Novarian

    All kmarts commercials SUCK, THE SUCK THE SUCK THE SUCK OOOPPPS I MENT THE LIGHTS MY BAD NOW god bless the mute and lsat channel buttons on the remote. I’m working on an ESCAPE button next that will boost you right into TARGET Stores.
    K-MART deservse to go bankrupt. That’s what happens when you’re run by idiots