Have You Seen This Child?

Interestingly, the reconstruction of Tutankhamun's head created by "the French team" actually bears a strong resemblance to images of those sexually ambivalent, heavily eye-lined lead singers of 1980s British pop groups. I am thinking especially of the fellow who sang "Tainted Love" and other synthesized hits of yesteryear. It is unfortunately just too, too bad that the acclaimed modern-classical composer Philip Glass was unaware of the boy Pharaoh's washed-up gay crooner connections when he was scoring his much loved Egyptian-themed opera, "Akhenaten", since Glass's operatic muse obviously draws so much valuable inspiration from the spangly detritus of 80's youth culture. How the New York maestro's famously repetitive chords would have soared had they accompanied the pouting arias of this fabulous queeny king of the Nile rather than the dull and moody monotheist that Akhenaten was. What a masterpiece the world of trendy music has surely lost.

Comments

[Quicquid]

"Much loved"? How about "Requiem for an Earwig?"

[stephenesque]

Well, I love "Requiem For An Earwig" even if nobody else does.

[Quicquid]

Sometimes it's hard to tell these things.

[stephenesque]

That is the fault of crap writing on my part, really, since, I suppose, as far as you are aware, I could be a huge fan of 80s synth garbage and relish "symphonies" based upon it. The portrait of Glass needed a little more snide venom!

[Lucy]

Mark Almond. Just in case you were wondering.

[stephenesque]

Thanks Lucy - altho' ( and here he whispers) ... I did actually know that. I was just pretending that I didn't for the purposes of being a snotty music snob. he always struck me as being able to sing quite well if he actually tried.

[Bleak Mouse]

You do Philip Glass a serious injustice. Far from being influenced by 80s synth-rock, Glass was endlessly reiterating simplistic themes and calling them compositions as early as the late 1960s.