April 7, 2005

"What is that hideous thing?!" *

If you have iTunes, for the love of god fire it up and watch the HYSTERICAL video by Simon Cowell brainchild Il Divo that's linked off the main page. It is a Toni Braxton cover, worried and reworked until the original, smarmy, soulless source material was elevated to a spectacular Baroque hideousness that almost, through inversion and sensory assault, finds its way to beauty. It is canned studio crap with a heaping dose of cheap Spanish guitar. It is a video that starts with a train and a rehearsal, ends with a concert, and somehow has a welding scene in the middle. It is crooning then booming Spanish vocals. It is the sort of marvel not seen since the Mase, Puff Daddy, and 112 collaboration "Jealous Guys". IT IS ALL THINGS.


* A quote from the estimable Endi about another topic.


Posted by Adair at April 7, 2005 12:57 AM

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