Syntax is everything, editors:
"NEW YORK, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- EMI Classics has released 50 Shades of Classical Music, a digital compilation containing 50 pieces of classical music inspired by the bestselling 'Fifty Shades of Grey' novels..."
What pieces would those be, one wonders?
Read the rest here, and do visit the website, it's all about the Dark Side of Classical Music™. Evidently. Which is to say, a lot of baroque standards (= evil) and not every opera aria cliché imaginable, but certainly the ones ad agencies love the most.
And yes, apparently O mio babbino caro is the Dark Side. In your face, Rob Zombie.
Oh but wait, now you'll have to take my word for it, because some force of Market or the Law (50 Shades of ©) is at work, like the Nothing, making it all vanish before our eyes. Oh well. It was fun watching Thomas Tallis, that Monster of the Id, shoot up the charts.
I heard that Darth Vader used to play "O mio babbino caro' over the intercom on the Death Star every morning . . .
ReplyDeleteI understand that was part of an internal power struggle with Grand Moff Tarkin, who was more of a Flower Duet from Lakmé kinda guy.
DeleteLast time I heard "O mio babbino caro" it was being sung by the daughter of the Chair of the BC Trial Lawyers Association. She sounded like getting around daddy was a well developed skill.
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