In choir, we sang this African tribal song that we sing every year at our Christmas concert. It's called 'Bethelehemu' [Be-Teh-Leh-Heh-Mooooo] and it's pretty cool when you do it right. There are drums and gourds and maraccas and a cowbell and stuff, and if you keep the pace up, it can end up sounding like Rocket Jesus.
But today when i checked my Facebook, to my horror, a video had been posted of the choir at my new school doing the song. Here's the kicker: it was about half the tempo it should have been. The video was seriously six and a half minutes long. I watched it, it was like crawling through African mud.
If you'd like to see the song done fairly well, at the correct tempo at least, watch here:
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Yeah.
Julia
Sounds like our school's choir. Garbled, slowed-down vocals that are almost never in English (so we don't know exactly how much they're screwing up). Not to mention the tinny, cassette-based backing tracks they sing along with, pumping out of a portable PA system that barely works.
ReplyDeleteCatchy, sort of. ;)
ReplyDeleteBrings me back to the day when I was in choir. Yeah...it was in elementary school. But we were pretty good. We went to Carnegie Hall in New York in fifth grade, and we were the featured choir. I was pretty proud. I danced the tango in front of thousands of people.