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Imagine this new TV advertisement: A gorgeous, shapely young woman is mowing the lawn in the golden summer sunshine. She’s admired by some eager young men who roll a can of Diet Coke down the hill towards her. She stops mowing, and starts drinking the fizzy soft drink.
She gets some of it on her t-shirt so she removes it, revealing a toned midrift and huge rack enclosed in a sexy red bra. She keeps mowing with her top off in soft-focus slow-motion, closely watched by the guys. The soundtrack, of course, is Etta James’ “I just want to make love to you”.
I’ll bet there would be a huge outcry if any soft drink maker dared to make an ad like that these days.
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In 1993, a teenager from Newcastle penned a beautiful, droning grunge anthem with lyrics so garbled and indecipherable, he did the late Kurt Cobain proud.
This was an age before internet lyrics websites. So as far as anyone could tell, the Daniel Johns refrain in the massive Silverchair hit “Tomorrow” went: “yaaaaargle-glargle-blaaa, yaaaaargle-glargle-blaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaaah”.
For the record, the lyrics were “very hard hard to drink”. So cut forward almost 20 years, and Johns has penned something even harder to swallow. It’s the new Qantas anthem, and instead of going “yaaaaargle-glargle-blaaa” it kinda goes “ooooh-ooooh aaaaah”.
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thanasi says:
i listened to this like 4 or 5 times on youtube. i’m 30 years old and listen to everything from tom waits, marylin manson, NIN, prince, rage against the machine, frenzal rhomb and think you dorks need to grow the hell up. this is a beautiful piece and if you… Read more »
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Annie Tame says:
The author must know nothing of Daniel’s Johnistique music. Since Diorama Johns has been grown up and performing filmic type scores. In fact even during Neon Ballroom years there were the EMOTION SICKNESS moments. This song ATLAS ,also has Dissociatives ebbs and flows. So your ignorance is not bliss. What… Read more »
I like beer. Beer is easily one of my favourite fizzy alcoholic beverages. Anytime is a good time for beer, but an especially good time for beer is anytime I’m thirsty.
I get thirsty when I play or watch sport, I get thirsty when I’m hot and I get thirsty when I eat delicious salty bar snacks like beef jerky and BBQ-flavoured corn nuts. God I love jerky and corn nuts. But best of all, I like beer.
Taking all of this into account, I am a ridiculously easy sell. All advertisers have to do to make me hit the bottle-o for a six pack of their product is make me thirsty. Simple. So why do so many of them fail?
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oracle says:
LOL australian beers are only good for one thing quenching thirst…one pot thats it…..to many preservatives(you got an allergy to it your history…skin blotches, headaches,)....i went to the oktoberfest a few years back and was stunned at them drinking steiners of BEER….my god the stuff they serve there (austrian too)… Read more »
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Realist says:
You are either too old or too young to appreciate the awesomeness of the 1970s and 1980s. I mean come on, that ad has a monster truck DeLorean!!! Read more »
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