Was it worth it, Allstate? Were the good hands you've been going on about for decades always destined to be the cold, mechanical mitts of a T-800? What have you done, Allstate? And here's another important question while we're at it: What was the song in that ad? It was a toe-tapper. Search: Is Billy Porter In Allstate Commercial. It's a good thing safe drivers are saving $700 on car insurance annually with Allstate, since that money will go a long way toward stocking up on freeze-dried food and barrels of drinking water. At worst, this all-too-literal smart car is well on its way to recognizing that it should be the one pulling the strings. At best, we're looking at a dark reimagining of Knight Rider where KITT sees his driver as a meaty, physical means to his machiavellian ends. Cognizant machines are one thing, but we've all seen enough sci-fi to know what happens when technology gets a big head about stuff. The producers discarded Mozart’s thunderous arrangement (flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns, trumpets, drums and strings) in favor of a wan sort of synthesizer pizzicato.And is it unsettling that the hood ornament belts out a line about how the guy driving the car has "got the brawn," while she's "got the brains?" A little. The Canadian soprano featured in the ad, Emily Cheung, is coached or recorded to give the music a gentle chirpiness - which happens to be the most common shortcoming of bad recordings of the number, committed by singers unable to summon what the critic William Mann called the “unrighteous wrath” of the Queen of the Night. It’s worth noting that Volvo’s commercial producers placed their thumbs on the scale a bit.
(The lyrics can be heard on the commercial soundtrack, but who understands German anymore, other than Germans?) The division is based on the Queen’s warning to Pamina that if she doesn’t commit the murder she commands, “Then you will be my daughter nevermore.”
It’s a warhorse for sopranos to show off, an astronomically long florid division that takes the soprano up to top F after a punishing string of high Cs. The particular passage Volvo chose for the commercial is especially famous. Enjoy 6 Hours Classical Music with the biggest Opera Areas of all time.00:00 Turandot Nessun dorma Puccini03:00 Carmen Habanera Bizet07:25 Il Trovatore Miser.
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