{"id":33608,"date":"2011-02-18T11:24:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T16:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=33608"},"modified":"2016-08-28T05:53:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T09:53:09","slug":"the-beautiful-people-its-all-relative-to-the-size-of-your-steeple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=33608","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Beautiful People. It&#8217;s All Relative To The Size of Your Steeple.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iZADPizup14\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scala &#038; Kolacny Brothers, the all-female choir from Belgium, suddenly became world-famous when their cover of Radiohead&#8217;s &#8220;Creep&#8221; was used in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lB95KLmpLR4\">the memorable trailer for <i>The Social Network<\/i><\/a>.   I have since bought as much of their stuff as I can get my hands on. They do odd covers of well-known songs, and turn familiar songs into eerie echoey anthems.  For example: their cover of Marilyn Manson&#8217;s &#8220;The Beautiful People&#8221; (above).  This sounds like something from out of a nightmare and is rather brilliant. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ypkv0HeUvTc\">Manson&#8217;s is creepy enough<\/a>, and I like the song a lot, but to hear a chorus of quiet calm girls almost whispering, &#8220;The weak ones are there to justify the strong&#8230;&#8221; is another thing entirely. And when they all suddenly get loud?  I want to hide under the bed.  Please don&#8217;t kill me Belgian girls, with your creepy whispers and your sudden volume. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scala &#038; Kolacny Brothers, the all-female choir from Belgium, suddenly became world-famous when their cover of Radiohead&#8217;s &#8220;Creep&#8221; was used in the memorable trailer for The Social Network. I have since bought as much of their stuff as I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=33608\">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\/33608"}],"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=33608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120883,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33608\/revisions\/120883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}