Gimme Henrietta and Merna any day!

Is that a young Taylor Swift?

Do we get another choice?

While I don’t care for Al’s style of music so much, it looks to me like he meant what he was singing. Poor Henrietta and Merna looked like there must have been a shotgun off-camera, forcing them to sing (though not forcing them to sing well). If that were me, I’d be so embarrassed. Well, not really, because I wouldn’t go on camera and prove I “a” can’t sing and “b” don’t love Jesus. (That last is judging, I know, but it sure looked like they didn’t mean it.)

I love them both. One for its simplicity, its lack of artifice and the other for its complexity. Both express the joy of the season.

Blecchhh. To both. I’ve never liked that song. I don’t know why it ever gets sung. But it has apparently found a place.

Gotta’ love, you, Paul. You never shy away from personal opinions. Well, it’s your blog anyway. ‘Go Tell it on the Mountain’ is a good spiritual. It’s shows how Lutheranism connects with other cultures.

The lesson we have now learnt: don’t give white folks the mic if you want a spiritual sung well. If they insist on being part of a show, a violin will do. No joking.

What this song does in LSB still beats me though.

Hard to say. I’m with John M. “Do we get another choice?”
Best sung by young children.

I’ve seen forced hostage statements that were happier than that. Merna looks like she’s blinking morse code. Or maybe its just an early work of Quentin Tarrantino. I don’t really see much difference between “Henrietta and Merna can’t (won’t) sing” and the amateur videos we find on the internet today. The trivial and mundane things that far too many think must be captured for posterity is to say the least bizarre.