Jesus Christ Superstar with Tim Minchin

Chookas

Not sure where to put this, but if anyone is into musicals, this version is a stunner! They played it on YouTube in the beginning of covid times and they’re playing it again.
Only for 48 hours from Friday night. Tim Minchin as judas is 💯
It’s the closest to religion I’ll be getting this weekend 😜

Chookas

Actually, there’ll be plenty of wine too. I understand that features heavily in Catholicism 😃

IcyPole

I watched it last year when it was made available. It was fantastic. Such a shame that they autotuned Tim Minchin’s voice. Apparently he wasn’t happy about it but he didn’t bother to follow up on it with the producers. His autotuned voice sounded quite wrong to my ears. He didn’t sound like him. Still, it was entertaining. Mel C aka Sporty Spice was pretty good as Mary.

Chookas

It just sounded wrong at the beginning, did they stop auto tuning it?

IcyPole

No. It kept going. There was a little bit that sounded like it wasn’t as heavily autotuned but if you’ve listened to his voice a lot (which I have!) you can pick the autotune.

Chookas

I would think that I’ve listened to him a lot, but maybe not 🤷 i was probably just singing along far too loudly and badly to listen 🤣

DYNAR

I love Tim and my kids like Come Home Cardinal Pell and at 9 DS has quite the interest in Adam Briggs music - particularly January 26 and The Children Came Home. He had seen The Pope Song in my track list but I always skipped it but recently I let him listen. He liked Tim and Briggs’ collaboration on Scott Morrison last year. He likes protest and social justice songs.

Cut to last weekend driving with one of DDs friends in the car (she is 11) and he asks if he can play it. I say no due to the swearing and the friend reminds me her dad lets them listen to sweary songs. I know mum and dad quite well and realise they won’t mind the swearing. Then we get into where he starts singing more than swear words and I remember it talks about kiddie fiddling and I realise this is why I shouldn’t be letting it play not the swearing! I’m hoping that because he sings so fast it mostly went straight past her

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Kind of related but not really: went to the Good Friday service today at 3pm. The prayers of the faithful were read by different people from the congregation in the different languages spoken. Everyone read a prepared prayer, with the English translation projected on the screen. All except the indigenous guy, where the screen was blank. He said he would’ve liked to have prayed in the language of his community, but when he was a baby, his Mum wasn’t allowed to speak to him in their language, and he’d have to go to TAFE to learn it now. So he just did a improvised prayer for reconciliation in English, instead. It was just so honest and frank and poignant.