Gil Hates Everything

Bah. This soundtrack is basically an album of camp classics, so you can pick your own rating for it. You all know I don’t usually care for covers of pop songs, particularly when musical theatre gets hold of them (it’s mostly down to the instrumentation) and this doesn’t really change my mind on that.

I’m not entirely sure how M’s “Pop Muzik” fits in with that camp classics vibe – is that song gay? no-one tells me anything – but I’ve missed hearing that song, and the vocals on this version are horrible, so now I have to hunt down their Greatest Hits collection. So that’s something…

By the sounds of it, this show’s rendition of “I Will Survive” is the drag queens singing for and with a group of aboriginals, so if you’ve ever wondered how disco music survives a head-on collision with didgeridoos, or (your mileage may vary) how fast you can run away from it, then here’s your chance to find out.

I forgot that I have a couple of shows starting with “The” to look at, so I’m not in fact onto the “R”s yet. But I ought to get on with work, so tomorrow, it’s “The Producers”, with “The Pyjama Game” on Friday.

(originally posted 2009)