It is irreverent humour and because it is ab/using the words of a hymn it could upset some people. For those not based in the UK, it's a clip from a programme called 'songs of praise' which originally was conceived, I think, as a way to bring Church to the housebound, or to indulge those who liked hymns but not church (quite a big demographic in the UK once upon a time, I suspect).
YouTube - SONGS OF PRAISE (WITH SUBTITLES)
What I find interesting about what has been done with this, is that bar a couple of lines, the subtitled substitutions 'sound' completely plausible. The words being sung are the actual hymn words, but the subtitled offerings actually sound such that it is hard to imagine what the singers actually are reading to sing from.
This is a good illustration of how our perceptions have a close relationship with our expectations: we don't perceive reality directly; it has to be mediated via sense-making mechanisms which fill in gaps and generally tidy up the raw data so we can use it for decision-making. Speech is a good example of this, and songs more so because the raw data can be very imperfect but the presumed ordered content is high; so we have a lot of potential help from grammar, phonology etc ... but it can go very wrong!
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YouTube - SONGS OF PRAISE (WITH SUBTITLES)
What I find interesting about what has been done with this, is that bar a couple of lines, the subtitled substitutions 'sound' completely plausible. The words being sung are the actual hymn words, but the subtitled offerings actually sound such that it is hard to imagine what the singers actually are reading to sing from.
This is a good illustration of how our perceptions have a close relationship with our expectations: we don't perceive reality directly; it has to be mediated via sense-making mechanisms which fill in gaps and generally tidy up the raw data so we can use it for decision-making. Speech is a good example of this, and songs more so because the raw data can be very imperfect but the presumed ordered content is high; so we have a lot of potential help from grammar, phonology etc ... but it can go very wrong!
Technorati Tags: humour, hymn, words, perception, psychology, Songs_of_Praise
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