"Thinking opera is great is kind of like thinking heavy metal is great," the R&B star said as we swilled beers and lolled about on the sofa in front of a roaring fire, exhausted from a day of Christmas baking.
I understood immediately what she meant.
Foolishly, I tried to prove otherwise, that anyone would find certain music sublime no matter what their taste. Naturally, I failed utterly by insisting on playing a soprano aria from Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Then dug the hole deeper with a little Mozart.
"I hate it when their voices go 'uhahuhahuhah,'" said the husband, imitating a wobbly-voiced vibrato-afflicted tenor with the worst case of the shakes.
Dammit, I thought to myself, they're not overwhelmed. It's true. Heavy metal is the rock equivalent of opera.
Then I bit into a saffron bun and put the Flaming Lips back in the CD player.
The Swedish word for the day is U-sväng. It means U-turn.
- by Francis S.
Monday, December 20, 2004
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