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The song the cherry is singing is If You Leave Me Now (I think that's what its called) and is by Chicago. A cheese classic.
And as for the jelly fish thing... in the Guardian Guide page 3 every week is a column called Hard Sell about adverts. Last week the subject was this ad, and thankfully they gave a pretty decent explanation:
"Firstly, cowboys worshipping and dancing before a sea creature is surreal in British eyes, but not, it seems, to the Japanese. In Hakodate, Japan, each August, there's a festival honouring the squid. This vast tentacle-based knees-up culminates in 20,000 Japanese, dressed in straw hats (looking like cowboys) dancing the wobbly-limbed squid dance, aka the "Ika-odori". Hence, the interplay of weird hats, squid adoration and body-popping might seem fresh, enchanting and even unnerving to us, but to the Japanese it's as radical as morris dancing. "We love sharing," shouts Three's tagline, and if the entire world signed up for its space-age network and began communicating, we'd learn fabulous new facts like this every day. Got that? Good.
Secondly, the ugly, wobbly sea creature symbolises the 3G network itself. Our two cowboy heroes take a risk and drag something scary and unknown into their home. This could be a disaster, but with patience and understanding the entity lights up their lives. In a funny way, the ad says, this is exactly like signing up for Three! Sure, it's frightening. Of course you don't understand it. But just get your bloody wallet out and sign the contract. Soon you'll be beaming out video and audio clips, helping unite the planet and eventually, apparently, break-dancing with glee at your ingenuity. "
Brilliant!
Read it for yourself:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,1332351,00.html