I hate to say it, for fear of sounding unpatriotic, but Canada’s opening ceremonies for the Olympics was kinda, well, sucky. Starting with the snowboarder entry that was cheesy and far too long. In fact, most of it just seemed like it went on too long for its own good.
So much so that when K.D. Lang launched into crooning her melancholy lyrics:
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Stella broke out in frustrated, over-tired tears: “MORE singing?!! Why are they doing more singing! Isn’t this a sporting event!”
Technical errors can happen to even the most well-planned event, but meticulously planning to bore the world with a series of extended songs by artists most people don’t recognize is inexcusable. (Oh, and scaring them to death with the demonic, over-tatooed fiddlers — that was a special touch.)
By the time poor, embarrassed Gretzy finished the lightening ceremony, I don’t think I was alone in sighing my own Hallelujah!
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