Telling someone to go fuck themselves via song is an artform as old as time itself, and Tim Minchin is just about as good at it as anybody on this blue Earth.
However, when the target of your ire is literally chucking a sickie to get out of testifying on child abuse allegations in person, a piano and barely-contained rage just ain’t enough. For Cardinal George Pell, you gotta have the whole band.
The result is basically what would’ve happened if The Whitlams traded in their aphrodisiacs for even more snarky, seething lols.
Even better? Buying the track – thereby giving you unlimited access to one muso’s endless ire – will put funds into a GoFundMe dedicated to sending Australian survivors of abuse to The Vatican. If that’s not possible, they’ll be distributed to a ‘Healing Centre’ in Ballarat, where the hearings are being held.
‘Cause shacking up in an Italian citadel under the mysterious pretense of illness doesn’t cut it any more, no sirree.
In the few hours the single’s been out, Australia has basically cheered the song on as hard as they can, ’cause aiming their voices at Rome hasn’t really done too much in this instance.
This is a great song where @timminchin is too kind to George Pell.https://t.co/vagplZOX4W
— Josh Thomas (@JoshThomas87) February 16, 2016
Tim Minchin: https://t.co/nG1dOPunof #CardinalPell
— Wil Anderson (@Wil_Anderson) February 16, 2016
@timminchin have had your song on a loop in my head since finishing the show @theprojecttv Just brilliant
— Carrie Bickmore (@BickmoreCarrie) February 16, 2016
Thank you for this @timminchin Tim Minchin releases charity single ‘Come Home, Cardinal Pell’ https://t.co/R7xKG0Sq1B via @YouTube
— David Campbell (@DavidCampbell73) February 16, 2016
Tim Minchin releases ‘Come Home, Cardinal Pell’ all proceed will send survivors to Rome. Something in my eye https://t.co/C3VPumMa9R
— Catherine Deveny (@CatherineDeveny) February 16, 2016
Thanks to some prodigious sharing, the fund has already pipped its $50K goal. Next stop: Finding how much postage would be on a piano to Italy.
Source: Tim Minchin / Youtube.
Photo: Youtube.
