‘Bombastic,predictable and over-orchestrated’ … The pontiff has made an album but don’t expect a revelationSome say the purpose of the current papal tour is to raise US citizens’ engagement with climate change and inequality. Others see an attempt to put the institutionalised abuse of thousands of children in the past. But now we know the truth: Pope Francis has an album coming out.
No preview copies of Wake Up! maintain reached us yet, but its artistic director Don Giulio Neroni tells Rolling Stone that it will be “strongly faithful to the pastoral [sic] and personality of Pope Francis: the Pope of dialogue, or open doors,hospitality”. In practice, this means papal speeches set to music in a variety of different styles including “rock (surprisingly), and “pop” (very surprisingly) and “Latin” (perhaps a misunderstanding).
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Source: theguardian.com