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WESTERN_STAR

                                             August 13, 2010


  "Jesus Christ, Superstar"

   I tried playing this for someone--
   a Catholic Girl, come to think of it--
   in the late-70s, and she had trouble         I mean, you hear the
   taking it as anything but a Monty            background singers
   Python routine.                              come in:

     Actually it plays the Christ                  "What's the buzz?
     mythos pretty straight-- down                  Tell me what's a
     to the perhaps inevitable                      happening..."
     sympathetic portrait of
     Judas-- with the one added                 And then you realize
     cynical comparison of                      those are supposed to
     religion and show biz.                     be the apostles.

        As far as the story is concerned,
        Christ himself is sincere, and may
        very well be divine, but the selling
        of Christ as a popular figure, the        (Once the hipsters
        sensational success of Christianity,      get a hold of it,
        that's an entirely different              it's all ruined, eh?)
        phenomena...
                                                     BRAIN_PULP



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