This is just hilarious. Two finish guys, come up with the idea of putting the energy of people complaints into something creative.
They did a campaing to collect people complaints, created a song with them and recorded a performance with a choir.
They called this iniative the Complaints Choir, apparently this was inspired by a finish expression Valituskuoro, which represents a situation when a lot of people are complaining at the same time.
This has already spread to other countries. And i've counted at least 10 complaint choirs around the world. Strange, no Portuguese choir yet, when it cames to complaints we are probably unbeatabble. :-)
Go collect some complaints, and organize a choir in your country/city. :-)
Some Complaints i've liked, text inside brackets are my comments:
Helsinki (wow 90 people)
- Old forests are cut down and torned into toilet paper, and still all the toilets are always out of paper.
- We always lose to Sweden in hockey and Eurovision [hockey must be a bummer, but losing the eurovision seems like something to be proud, shame would be winning it :-)]
- Why do people never agree with me? [life is a bitch :-)]
- Why is the cord of the vacuum cleaner too short?
- The battery on my mobile is always going flat and all the ring tones are just as irritating [how un national, such a remaker from Nokia country :-)]
- my dreams are boring
- Reference numbers are too long.
- Bullshiters get on too well on life [this is my favorite :-)]
- And my wife always complains [this one must be universal :-)]
- the employment agency only need java programmers
- our ancestors could have picked a sunnier spot
St Petersburg (most dynamic choir, very well filmed in various sets. St Petersburg must be very beatiful)
- Advertisement is filling all the streets but there is no space for me
- Yesterday the waitress was rude to me
- Who invented deadlines? And the nightmare of C++ Language
- No more money for acne cream
- Men are always vague and hesitant and never take the first step
- there is only two loos for the whole institute [well at least you seem to have paper, unlike the fins :-)]
- why did you, Peter, miraculous builder built our city in such pestilent climate amidsts mosquitoes
- Why are we always dissastified with something?
- Only jerks propose marriage to me but never the men i would marry.
- plumbers drink all the time.
- Female programmers are not taken serious! [don't complain at least you have female programmers, send us your resumés :-)]
- Men are gigolos these days And we have to pay for all the needs of those bastards [ahah this beats them all]
- Why don't the Rolling Stones come to play here? [they already did years ago, when they performed for the Czars and rasputin :-)]
Hamburg (amazing one of the singers performs with a baby on her lap (and he seems to be sleeping even with all the noise :-))
- The tax declaration is too complicated
- My flatmate sleeps with my Ex-Girlfriend
- not a single politician keeps his promises
- My mother always worries too much
- My favourite underpants are out of stock - unfortenately [what? someone looses his sleep over this?]
- Reduction of bureaucracy, awesome public parks,small classes, new cinema, school and canal renovated
- I am a slave of my habits!
- I am more embarassed to fater in the subway than to throw batteries into the household wast"
Poikkilaakson (kids choir, must musical complain mainly about school)
- After gym we have to shower
- Fart often smell in school
- Girls are stupid, boys are stupid, santa claus is stupid.
- In winter we miss summer, in summer winter
- There are no Tarzan forests in Finland!
- Mum is stupid, dad is stupid [i see a pattern forming]
Bodo (the mayor threw a bonus, and did a speach with complaints :-)
- And that is such a long time since i got laid [well that why web 2.0 brought Get Them Laid]
- And i always pay too much tax
- There are too few prawns in the prawn salad
- There are too few winning tickets in the lottery [errr that is the whole point :-)]
- I want to complain about everything being too average
- And i would like to complain about always getting too drunk [amazing why people complain about things they *can* control, or is it a the devil made me do it, thing?]
- meetings are too long and boring
- I'm tired of waiting for the carpenters [would you prefer a russian plumber? :-)]
- And this is the 4th time this month that i have been woken up by phone-sellers while having my after dinner nap
That must give you a hintabout the choirs. Go see the for yourself, there are a few more (video performances, not sound only).
But it's funny to see the complaints, there is little overlap between different coutries. And very curious, even if you don't recognize the country of the chorus by the language, you can somehow recognize (or at least place then near their country) them by how they behave. Do the European stereotypes fit into a pattern? :-D (the sample is too low, since it doesn't southern/mediterranean countries ) but i bet it would sample well European stereotypes. :-)