The Complaints Choir URL
Mar. 25th, 2009 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chrishansenhomeI was tipped off by @jonk about the Complaints Choir of Helsinki. I watched, and it was hilarious.
I thought it was a one-off until I looked at the suggestions sidebar. There was one from Birmingham, UK, one in Chicago, but the best one I listened to was from Singapore!
As usual, I am the last one to hear of the Complaints Choir movement. There does seem to be one in London, but there's been no movement on the performance that I can see and there isn't any link to a YouTube video of it. I suppose we are just too British and polite to bother complaining.
The Singapore Complaints Choir was refused permission to perform in public unless all non-Singaporeans were barred from the Choir. As some will be aware, Singapore has become the home of many non-Singaporeans who do jobs ranging from housekeeper and nanny up to CEO of the national sovereign wealth fund. But, since those people were barred from performing publicly, the entire choir decided that it would perform in private, tape the performance, and put it up on teh intarwebs, where the Singapore gahmen couldn't ban it. It's really funny (to those who live there or who have some knowledge of Singapore) and the back story makes it even more poignant. Do watch it—I've embedded it below.
I thought it was a one-off until I looked at the suggestions sidebar. There was one from Birmingham, UK, one in Chicago, but the best one I listened to was from Singapore!
As usual, I am the last one to hear of the Complaints Choir movement. There does seem to be one in London, but there's been no movement on the performance that I can see and there isn't any link to a YouTube video of it. I suppose we are just too British and polite to bother complaining.
The Singapore Complaints Choir was refused permission to perform in public unless all non-Singaporeans were barred from the Choir. As some will be aware, Singapore has become the home of many non-Singaporeans who do jobs ranging from housekeeper and nanny up to CEO of the national sovereign wealth fund. But, since those people were barred from performing publicly, the entire choir decided that it would perform in private, tape the performance, and put it up on teh intarwebs, where the Singapore gahmen couldn't ban it. It's really funny (to those who live there or who have some knowledge of Singapore) and the back story makes it even more poignant. Do watch it—I've embedded it below.
