Each Monday ZTV (a Swedish music/entertainment channel) shows an hour of newly released videos. I watch it sometimes, mostly because sometimes there’s videos that won’t be shown again, but in some cases that’s a good thing. Today there was a video with The Choirboys. I think there’s an Australian hard rock band with the same name, this wasn’t them, but three actual choirboys performing Clapton’s “Tears in Heaven” in their piping boy-soprano voices.

The whole thing was just… creepy. Who decides that something like that should be recorded and promoted through popular media? Can’t be much of a market, can it? There’s grandmothers, the six related to the boys plus some elderly women who didn’t get to have any grandchildren of their own, but what else – mood music for catholic priests? Or maybe it is some sort of ill-concieved plot to make choirs cool after the priests have scared all boys away…

I also hope those boys have strong psyches, image when the time comes and they ask when the next album is going to be recorded, and the producer asks “have you ever heard about puberty?”. Or if their future high school classmates make the connection.