Beethoven abused at Paris Olympic preview
NewsFor lack of taste and talent you would be hard pressed to find an act duller and more banal than this official state presentation by veteran pop persona Arielle Dombasle.
What were they thinking?
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These two DEI hires won’t make the Olympics.
Turn the sound on.
https://x.com/RitaPanahi/status/1814499712831311907
She was married to BHL, so definitely part of the favoured liberal elite. With events like this, the French are happy to showcase mediocrity. I don’t understand why.
I’ve just watched with the sound on. I didn’t think it could actually be any more toe-curling, but…
She is still married to BHL.
Because it’s now a very mediocre country who has no idea where it comes from, who it is and where it goes. Complete loss of compass.
Agreed! It can only get better – hopefully!
It’s good to think positive. But that’s never french spirit…
Certainly more titillating to watch than an orchestra playing Beethoven 7 anyhow. Only in France.
Yes I always got bored to death having to watch such a thing. No dancing, no fun, and the beats irregular and hard to follow.
Sally
Ah, yes! A reconstruction of the choreography for the 1984 Donna Summer video of “She Works Hard for the Money”!
There’s no link in what I’m seeing (1:47 GMT)
What’s really sad about this is that that vast majority of people who hear it will not recognize the rip-off from Beethoven. Maybe if they saw the movie The King’s Speech they will have a bit of recognition, but I doubt it.
We have all certainly seen worse things done with Beethoven. She is in aby case genuinely “pop”.
What do you expect? It is France after all.
Either that was a skirt or the largest amount of meringue I have ever seen.
We are in total decline/neglect of divine laws – dont look away and make excuses….the next years might show the mess more clearly!
Speaking of which, isn’t this music, the official anthem of the 2024 games, sort of weak? I get a composer wanting a earworm, but shouldn’t it be more than a few notes and ones that aren’t played over and over again?:
https://youtu.be/JFUwpAIhTzE?si=wCce1YDiQ5yJ8PuX
Wasn’t that the Suite from “Flashdance”?
The worst Beethoven offense of the week was playing Beethoven’s 9th Symphony when Melania Trump walked into the Republican convention. That said, Trump’;s various campaigns have learned that if they don’t want to pay penalties for works where artists still have their IP rights and don’t want to be associated with him, that they had to go to public domain. I hope each musician and chorister on that recording will receive their royalty check for the recording being played at that event.
The list of Ode to Joy abuses is getting longer and longer. Am I right to think that it has been getting worse in the last 20 years?
I wouldn’t hold my breath regarding the remuneration of the musicians behind the Republican Convention’s soundtrack.
I thought it was touching and a moment if class. Don’t expect at the Demo convention next month. No Puccini either!
well at least we don’t have to worry about appoggiaturas and pizzicato markings
That’s hilarious. But come on, it’s not like the state of trashy popular music and dance is all that much better anywhere else, including England.
Get her jacked up…she will never be tested…ha,ha
What were they thinking?
Put together an act that would go down well with the expectations of the live audience. Judging by the applause, they succeeded.
It’s not as if there isn’t a long history of classical composers ‘sampling’ each others motifs to write ‘Variations on a theme of X’
And Beethoven’s music is copyright free now. It belongs to everyone. You can do what you like with it.
Lighten up, guys. It’s a great tune, it works quite well as a pop video, and it will be forgotten as soon as the Olympics are over. Is it any worse than “I vow to thee, my country”?
This seems fairly innocuous.
Here was a far greater affront to Beethoven and the spirit of Enlightenment which he and Schiller embodied:
https://youtu.be/j1OGW19fjpU?si=hk8aYiFEMXyD2WLT
It reminds me of the Benny Hill show with women flashing their knickers and then complaining of harassment.
This confirms my suspicion that the French are not a very musical people.
A Dada-ist presentation, typically French.
Perhaps when the pop world said we should “Roll over Beethoven” it was better than so poor an imitation. Catch em doing that to a Swiftie song
This picture has been circulating on french FBook these last days…
https://scontent-cdg4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/451352018_501553982239501_2254314850825570774_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=44ufNMUavhAQ7kNvgFXBTd1&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg4-1.xx&oh=00_AYDYHi5InNR6l65tTdKpkgNRNn95FjnXOp94aZjZO6vYKg&oe=66A462AC
Unfortunately the Olympic games are not a cultural event, but only an opportunity for the self-named “elites” to show his disrespect for people, culture and “bon goût”…
Beethoven’s reputation will survive long after she is forgotten and becomes a harpist on a cloud.
Waldo de los Rios in his prime would have come up with something better than that.
I see no evidence of thinking behind this.
Oh I love this!! SO much better than the original.
Sally