Nuns With Music Deal Get Death Threats

ABC News ^ | July 29, 2010

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Nuns With Music Deal Get Death Threats

Reuters

PARIS

Benedictine nuns from a secluded convent in southern France have received death threats after winning a deal aimed at creating a chart-topping album, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The nuns from the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation near Avignon had their prayers answered last week after beating 70 other religious orders from North America and Africa to the deal with Universal Music.

The sisters, whose album is set to be released in November, put a clip of their Gregorian chants online, but realized on Tuesday a raft of death threats had been put at the bottom of the clip, La Provence reported on its website.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

That report is a bit misleading. Lady Gaga's record label is Interscope Records, owned by Universal Music Group, and operating as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group. Lady Gaga doesn't own Interscope Records. Here are some more accurate headlines:

French nuns become label-mates with Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga's record label signs on Benedictine nuns

[mlizzy]

Thanks for the clarification!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

That movie popped into my mind when I read the thread title.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***A few weeks later, another group, also from another country but with a radically different sound, shot to the top of the chart and would stay there for three months.***

Oh, Oh, let me guess! The SPIDERS! No, no, it was the BUGGS! The FLIES? No? That is a tough one! Man, I’m beat!

[Fiji Hill]

Oh, Oh, let me guess! The SPIDERS! No, no, it was the BUGGS! The FLIES? No? That is a tough one! Man, I’m beat!

It might have been the Spiders...

I Didn't Want to Do It--The Spiders

Or the Buggs!

Mersey, Mercy--The Buggs

[Taft in '52]

It wasn't the Spiders or the Buggs--it was most likely The Hornets!!!!

[jtal]

Ironically those sickos have no idea how ineffective those threats are. Do they think the sisters are afraid of death? Not a chance.

I do find it interesting how hostile the evil ones are to Gregorian chant, both inside and outside the church.

[jtal]

IIRC she became a slave to fame after the remarkable success of “Dominique”. When she couldn’t reproduce that success she incrasingly despaired until ultimately committing suicide. I don’t think the after effects of worshipping her new god was covered in the feel good movie.

Sorry to be so harsh but I am increasingly convinced that we are in an escalating spiritual was and the evil one is using every human weakness to advance his cause.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Nuns With Music Deal Get Death Threats"

Must be one of those 'East Coast" "West Coast" thangs...

Mr. Smalls could not be reached for comments...

[Fiji Hill]

[Soeur Sourire] became a slave to fame after the remarkable success of “Dominique”. When she couldn’t reproduce that success she increasingly despaired until ultimately committing suicide. I don’t think the after effects of worshiping her new god was covered in the feel good movie.

The "feel good" movie came out in 1966, before she really began to stray away from the teachings of her church--and before the problems in her life really became serious.

Sorry to be so harsh but I am increasingly convinced that we are in an escalating spiritual war and the evil one is using every human weakness to advance his cause.

Dominic of Osma, the subject of "Dominique," was a hero of that spiritual war. The song recounts how he fought in the Albigensian Crusade, converted heretics, inspired boys and girls, organized preachers, and traversed Europe from Scandinavia to the Riviera preaching the gospel. The fact a song such as this could go to number one and stay there for nearly a month makes me think that we must have lived in a different galaxy in 1963.

You can listen to the song while reading the lyrics here.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

To be fair, the Dominicans were active in the Holy Inquisition too, being known as the most militant order of the Church before the founding of the Jesuit Order some time later.

[dfwgator]

R-E-S-P-E-C-T tell you what it means to me....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BNYWg3fs34&feature=related