"And fine, if you wish to glorify Krishna and Vishnu in a post-colonial, condescending bottled-up and labeled kind of way... then whatever, that’s okay, but! Here’s what gives me a hard-on: I am a tiny, insignificant, ignorant lump of carbon. I have one life, and it is short, and unimportant...but thanks to recent scientific advances, I get to live twice as long as my great-great-great-great uncleses and auntses!"
— "Storm"
Tim Minchin is a flame-haired Australian pianist who once wrote an album full of silly songs to get them out of his system. When he discovered that the public loved them more than his more serious work, he became a comedian, and proceeded to become quite famous both in Australia and in the UK. He's known for his Black Humour and for his spot-on criticisms of both the religious right and the new age left.Several of his songs have official videos, including "The Pope Song" and "Storm". The latter of which has been adapted into an animated short [1]. He also famously serenaded Jonathan Ross' wife.He hosted one episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks.Has his own YouTube channel.
The Pope Song levels many accusations against pedophile priests. The very last of which, on the very last line of the song, is that they wear stupid hats.
In Context, Tim disccusses his hatred of, amongst other things, Africans who are racist, Japanese homophobes, the disabled rapists, and Burmese cats.
If I Didn't Have You says love grows "like a flower, or a mushroom, or a guinea pig, or a vine, or a sponge, or bigotry... or a banana."
If You Really Loved Me gets more bizarre and fetishistic as it goes along. A notable example includes Tim talking about how he could have ended up with a "small, blonde Portuguese skier" who, among several notable characteristics, suffers from "neck down alopecia".
Angry (Feet) gets weirder and more psychotic, until the narrator finally admits to cutting his psychotherapist's feet off and kicking him in the head with them.
In Cont, he expresses hatred to the rich and poor who use wealth/poverty as an excuse for bigotry, bitches who get rabies and try to bite babies and whores who don't accept Visa.
Brick Joke: In the second verse of Rock and Roll nerd, he mentions guitar kids learning Stairway To Heaven. The outro quotes the song.
Brown Note: "F Sharp" may very well be the real deal. Try listening to it and not cringing.
Dead Baby Comedy: Lullaby which is an, uhm, lullaby about getting a baby to sleep. It starts out pretty sweetly, and ends with a line explaining that how much you love your child is directly propotionate to how dead it looks.
Lyrical Dissonance: Quite a lot, given that he's a decent pianist with a dark sense of humour. "You Grew On Me" is something of a Double Subversion, since the gorgeous music suits the underlying sentiment perfectly well, it's just the comparison of love to terminal illnesses that breaks the spell a little.
Unless, of course, one is familiar with the Australian slang term moll
Mood Whiplash: Dark Side is a blatantly lampshaded example, but there are others.
Praise be to magic Woody Allen zombie Superman komodo-dragon telepathic vampire quantum hovercraft - me - Jesus!
N-Word Privileges: In Prejudice he mentions a word that contains a couple of Gs, an R and an E, an I and an N, which is only acceptable to be used by those it applies to.*
Song For Phil Daoust and to an extent Ten-Foot Cock (And A Few Hundred Virgins). Especially, however, the Pope Song, which beats out The ICP's "Fuck The World" in F-Bomb density while ranting about the Catholic Church's pedophilia scandals.
How about singing a song about having sex with Jonathan Ross' wife... while on Ross' show!
Take That: Mostly against religion or superstition, but without much in the way of political prejudice — he goes against the New Agey left as hard in Storm as he goes against the traditionally theistic right in The Good Book.
Wossy Can I Bang Your Wife is a Take That to the complainants who got Jonathan Ross suspended by the BBC, or specifically those who insisted that Ross would be traumatised if anyone dared to target him with the kind of joke that he was suspended over. Watched from this perspective, you can see that point that Wossy works it out.
Third-Person Person: Rock And Roll Nerd - "But he doesn't want to seem self-obsessed, so he writes in third-person."
Uncanny Valley Makeup: Granted, only because the bar for men is set very low, but still, it's strange to see a man, much less a straight one, wearing non-black eyeliner - especially without obvious foundation.
. He also famously serenaded Jonathan Ross' wife.He hosted one episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks.Has his own YouTube channel
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