I just stumbled across this talent show audition video of a Baptist Church's senior hip hop choir.
It started out oh no!, went to hilarious, degraded to excruciating and finally left me feeling sorry for the participants and the ridicule they'd be subjected to because of an apparently clueless but persuasive choir director.
BBC Radio 1's Scott Mills had a similar reaction. The second version is his remix with commentary.
Watch one for a bit to form your own conclusions, before going to the comments for a footnote.
Would you view this differently if you knew the choir was in on the joke?
The poster of the video at YouTube says this produced as the opening video for a student retreat:
"[W]e thought we could use this video as a great object lesson about media choices (kinda creepy hearing your grandparents sing some of this) [...] this has been a GREAT transgenerational culture experiment. It has totally bridged a gap with our Senior adults and our students. Hope you enjoy!"
Posted by: charlieq | November 21, 2008 at 11:12 AM