THE SONGWRITERS, THE THEOLOGIAN, THE TOP PRIESTS AND "EL DIABLO"
The primates of the little island of Cyprus are causing a furore again. This time around it's all about the song entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Here's my two cents...once they decide that a certain type of song fits the competition which, by itself is only pure entertainment like the Rio carnival, I won't bat an eyelid. It is what it is, entertainment. Scantily clad young ladies, outrageous costumes etc. So, eat your pizzas and have a laugh. It's entertainment, it's NOT art. What I find hard to swallow is the State Radio/TV station commissioning "world class" songwriters (like the press release states) to write the song. World Class songwriters? WTF! Did I miss a meeting with Tom Waits and Nick Cave? Or Bob Dylan? Or Roger Waters? FFS these songwriters are the bottom of the food chain when it comes to songwriting. I can name 10 computer software programs off the top of my head that produce these common chord progressions. And if you should write a lyric in english you should speak the language fluently...
Now, I don't really care about the "meaning" of the song. One says this the other says that. The song has NO meaning. It is silly, stupid, something a twelve year old would write. "Oh, it's a woman who's in a bad situation with a terrible guy and she's trying to break away"...and then what? Eat tacos and tamales with hot sauce. And do a "hair flip-flip" to catch the attention...so please, go easy on the "world class" songwriters mention cause Leonard Cohens bones are spinning in his grave like a whirling dervish.
It's just entertainment. Stripping music down to its bare essentials which is mathematics. Now, once you replace the AI with some IQ and add some soul and heart, then you have art. When it moves the heart and stimulates the brain, then it becomes art.
Then, the talking heads on TV move in. I was watching this theologian who didn't actually bring the song down BUT said that this presents a danger to our traditions. The Greek Orthodox traditions. Which of course the church maintains by submerging infants, BEFORE they can even walk, talk or think into a bathtub and thus, label them Orthodox Christians. That's how this tradition is maintained. I fail to see the the difference between Orthodoxy and Fundamental Christianity, the Evangelicals, the Methodists although I must admit that some Mormon girls are mysteriously sexy...
In a further comment/attempt to reveal his utter ignorance, the theologian added: "Satanists may use this song for their rituals" (!!!) Yeah, and I woke up this morning and smelled the coffee and it was stale like the middle ages. So I squeezed a lime in my beer and enjoyed it (you should try lime in beer, I highly recommend it!) WTF! You should be so lucky mr Theologian, you should be blissful in your ignorance. Let me tell you, once the satanists discard Deicide, Impaled Nazarene, Carpathian Forest, Watain and the rest for their rituals and use "El Diablo" that will be the end of satanism. You should be so lucky! Satanists will congregate to the sound of "El Diablo", drink Grenadine and behead Barbie dolls...
And, finally, the church top dogs...pardon me, priests, called a meeting (Holy Synod I believe it's called) to denounce the song and ask for it to be withdrawn. They drove from every diocese to congregate for "El Diablo"...well, actually they did not drive themselves. They have chauffeurs. They announced their verdict by which they were asking for the withdrawal of the song and then it was lunchtime and they feasted on pheasant and surf n' turf. Dessert followed afterwards but the toppest priest refrained from having any as he has health problems. Funny thing though...if the church does not wish for the primates to praise the devil why the hell they invent him in the first place?
Oh well, I guess I'll never know...but do you recall the song that starts with the lyric : "Please allow me to introduce myself..."
I can't help it I'm soooooooo f****n' tempted...
