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REVIEW: The first
release to try and "re-imagine" Messiah
for a new generation (never mind that none of
the previous generations needed their Messiah's
'souped-up'), this heavily synthesized version
was again watered down for the masses by
desperate promoters of Christian Pop trying to
tap into the youth market. So you have
wispy pop singers singing fairly faithful
renditions of Messiah's arias,
(eliminating, of course, all of those tricky
melismas), and a Baptist Choir vainly trying
to sound hip over the tinny drum tracks and
cheap synthesizers. What's that?
You want to hear "Every Valley Shall Be
Exalted" to be done in a rinky-tinky hip-hop
rhythm? No problem! You want
cheesy spoken interludes taking the place of
actual arias? Gotcha! You need the
difficult melismas dumbed-down for the hapless
choir? Check. It all sounds so
cheap, so mindless, so soulless, that it
boggles the mind that collector's copies of
this disaster are going for upwards of a
hundred dollars. Young Messiah
is an insult to Handel, to art, to
Christianity, and to all artists who daily
strive to reach higher than their own navel to
create beautiful music. Feel free to napalm
any copy you find. You'll be doing
humanity a favor.
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