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In Cheetos’ Super Bowl Ad, Shaggy’s ‘It Wasn’t Me’ Takes on New Meaning

Mila Kunis uses the lyrics to hide her snack-stealing tendencies from husband Ashton Kutcher

Mila Kunis has to think fast in Cheetos' Super Bowl ad. Cheetos

By Minda Smiley

February 1, 2021

In 2000, Shaggy’s It Wasn’t Me, a song about cheating on your girlfriend, was ubiquitous. Twenty-one years later, the earworm’s lyrics, much of which are NSFW, have been modified for none other than Cheetos.

Minda Smiley
@Minda_Smiley minda.smiley@adweek.com Minda Smiley is an agencies reporter at Adweek.
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