12 November 2014

The Singing Nun, redux


The BBC has an article about a different nun, singing:
“Sisters for life!” Madonna tweeted in October. She wasn’t referring to Lady Gaga or Rihanna: her affection was directed at Sicilian nun Sister Cristina Scuccia (photo), who has recorded a cover of the US pop star’s 1984 hit Like a Virgin.
The singing nun (unrelated to the original singing nun), who invited the audience to join her in reciting the Lord’s Prayer after winning The Voice of Italy talent show in June of 2014, has released her debut album. She claims her cover of the racy classic is more of “a secular prayer than a pop song”, telling the Catholic newspaper Avvenire: “If you read the lyrics without being influenced by what has gone before, you discover that it is a song about the capacity of love to make people new again, to release them from their past. And that’s how I wanted to interpret it. That’s why we’ve transformed it from the pop-dance track it was into a romantic ballad.”
The 26-year-old argues: “I chose it myself, without any desire to provoke or scandalize.” Yet Italy’s Religious Information Service news agency called it a “reckless and sly commercial operation”.
Rico says it may well be 'reckless and sly', but it's not gonna sell as many copies as the original...

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