Mauritshuis Brueghel & Van Balen Painting Inspires Pop Song
June 16 2021
Video: Mauritshuis
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Dutch pop singer Eefje de Visser, who performed at this year's Eurovision Song Contest, has released a new song that was inspired by the Mauritshuis's Garland of Fruit surrounding a Depiction of Cybele Receiving Gifts from Personifications of the Four Seasons by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hendrik van Balen. The music video begins in the gallery in front of the painting.
Alas, what a shame that the lyrics aren't available on subtitles - I'd love to know what they are...
Update - Gosh! A reader has very kindly sent these translated lyrics across:
Humanity picks her fruit
Celebrate the life
The Sun and the rain wild and abundant
The gods are looking below
How men and animal lived on Earth in peace
Birds in the clouds and bushes
People thankful that they could harvest
And animals living in the trees
They ate grain and leaves and berries
Everything
Oh Cybele let our flowers grow
Bathe in abundance and worship
We worship you
We worship you
Angels fly up above
The veil of the evening to the Gods
And bring wild to the clouds
And everybody come Cybele
We worship you
Oh Cybele let grow over flowers
Bathe in abundance and worship
Oh Cybele let the wash to grow
To live in excess and worship
I wonder if Brueghel and van Balen would have approved of these words...
