There's A Divinity That Shapes Our Ends

Some have suggested "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" from Hamlet 2 should get an Oscar nomination. They say if "Blame Canada" from South Park got one, why not?



Here's why not. South Park's tunesmith Marc Shaiman is a talented composer who wrote a bunch of great songs for that movie, and "Blame Canada" deservedly got him his fifth Oscar nomination. (While we're at it, the songs in Waiting For Guffman by Christopher Guest and others are also pretty accomplished.)

"Rock Me Sexy Jesus," on the other hand, is a sort of catchy Grease knockoff, the kind you'd see in a college talent show. And what's most catchy about the tune it stole from Richie Valen's "Come On, Let's Go."



It's also got more than a touch of "Little Shop Of Horrors." Now that's a 50s-style song that knows what it's doing. (And composer Alan Menken has won so many Oscars he must be using them as doorstops.)