Weeeell the fact that there are buskers everywhere in Melbourne city makes it HALF true I guess (I love that the preview picture is of Flinders St Station and not somewhere in Sydney or Uluru - Melbourne wiiiiiiiiiinsssss).
Pretty cool/embarrassing that you saw that terrible ad on TV though, they said they were launching it overseas with the Oprah-coming-to-Oz thing but it's been on our own TV and before movies at cinemas for what... 3 months now? I don't know why they advertise our own country to us, but anyway.
My favourite part is that they have two real singers in the ad, and you don't actually really hear one of them (Missy Higgins, I'm sure her voice is in the mix but all you see of her is a shot of her near the end and then we're back to the opera singer who I know is pretty famous but her name eludes me nonetheless)
They actually play it on TV there?? That is a bit strange. I mean, we did get "Come to California" commercials when I was back home, but I've never seen a "The US is awesome!" Commercial before. Weirdness!
They do, though not much, I think I've only caught it on the telly once. Seen it before films at the cinema at least twice though, both times there were people groaning when it came on. I think they play it just so we know that we have an ad? The "Where the Bloody Hell are you?" ad got tons more playtime than this one though, possibly because it got banned in several countries and so they had to make use of the massive budget SOMEHOW:
Personally I like the one Baz Luhrmann did to coincide with the god awful movie he made:
I don't know if the US actually NEEDS commercials, I've seen some for individual states before, but never the country itself.
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Weeeell the fact that there are buskers everywhere in Melbourne city makes it HALF true I guess (I love that the preview picture is of Flinders St Station and not somewhere in Sydney or Uluru - Melbourne wiiiiiiiiiinsssss).
Pretty cool/embarrassing that you saw that terrible ad on TV though, they said they were launching it overseas with the Oprah-coming-to-Oz thing but it's been on our own TV and before movies at cinemas for what... 3 months now? I don't know why they advertise our own country to us, but anyway.
My favourite part is that they have two real singers in the ad, and you don't actually really hear one of them (Missy Higgins, I'm sure her voice is in the mix but all you see of her is a shot of her near the end and then we're back to the opera singer who I know is pretty famous but her name eludes me nonetheless)
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Personally I like the one Baz Luhrmann did to coincide with the god awful movie he made:
I don't know if the US actually NEEDS commercials, I've seen some for individual states before, but never the country itself.
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