{"id":109439,"date":"2015-10-29T07:33:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=109439"},"modified":"2016-08-28T05:52:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T09:52:12","slug":"marilyn-manson-as-interpreted-by-a-scary-girls-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=109439","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn Manson as Interpreted By a Scary Girl&#8217;s Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scala \/ Kolacny is a women&#8217;s choir from Belgium. They&#8217;re fabulous, I have a couple of their albums. You probably remember their creepy cover of Radiohead&#8217;s &#8220;Creep,&#8221; featured in the first trailer for <i>Social Network<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Ado5PMjr5k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nWhile Scala \/ Kolacny don&#8217;t only do covers, their covers are so startling, so different than the originals that they tiptoe into a new landscape entirely.  There are vast possibilities in the original that you didn&#8217;t even know was there until you hear these scary girls sing it. (I mean, the girls aren&#8217;t scary people, but there&#8217;s something about a women&#8217;s choir that can turn a song into a whispered prophecy of sudden violent death. I don&#8217;t know why that is.)  When they whisper, in unison, &#8220;I wish I was special&#8221; in the clip above? It&#8217;s so effective. <\/p>\n<p>My favorite cover that they do is Marilyn Manson&#8217;s &#8220;Beautiful People,&#8221; which seems, frankly, un-cover-able. The original is so distinct, the form of the song feels so set in stone, it&#8217;s so much a personal expression of HIM. It&#8217;s meant to be blasted so loud that your ear-drums recoil. I love the song, and him, very much.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ypkv0HeUvTc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>\nBut now listen to how Scala \/ Kolacny do it. (The videographer takes a while to settle down in the clip below. But it&#8217;s the sound that matters.) <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOhEDL6ujrw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nAnd suddenly &#8230; the song becomes an entirely new thing. I bet Marilyn Manson loved it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scala \/ Kolacny is a women&#8217;s choir from Belgium. They&#8217;re fabulous, I have a couple of their albums. You probably remember their creepy cover of Radiohead&#8217;s &#8220;Creep,&#8221; featured in the first trailer for Social Network. While Scala \/ Kolacny don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=109439\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[2476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109443,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109439\/revisions\/109443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}