15 Minutes by Tim Minchin

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Here is the first of what will hopefully be an album worth of song releases in 2019. I hope it amuses. xt 14th January 2019: Now available to download or stream from all the usual places including:

Australia:

UK:

US:

Orchestrated and Produced by Daniel Denholm
Engineered by Daniel Denholm at Point Blank Sound

Orchestra recorded by Brent Clark @Trackdown Scoring Stage
Mixed by Tim Palmer @ 62’ Studios

Piano and Vocals - Tim Minchin

Guitar - Jak Housden
Bass - James Haselwood
Drums - Evan Mannell
Backing Vocals - Jak Housden, Sarah Belkner, James Haselwood, Ben Vanderwal
Mastering - Ryan Smith @ Sterling Sound Nashville
String Section - Contractor and Leader - Veronique Serret

15 Minutes

By now we thought that there would be
Jetpacks and flying cars
Robots to do the cleaning up for us
And help with the shopping.
We’d all be famous for bit
That’s what Andy Warhol said,
Thought we’d all get our coloured head
Well the truth would rock him

He may be surprised
To wake up and find
That we have weaponised
Humiliation

In the future, everyone
Everyone will have
Their 15 minutes
15 minutes of shame
15 minutes where they
Are unforgivable.

Pick up your pitchfork and your torch
We’ll go hunt the monster down
But keep an eye out for uneven ground
We’ll turn on you if you stumble.
Don’t need perspective or a heart
Leave humility at home
Welcome to the glasshouse, hope you brought your stones
Are you ready to rumble?

I am scared to write
Anything that might
Upset my own tribe
But never mind, cos

In the future, everyone
Everyone will have
Their 15 minutes
15 minutes of shame
15 minutes where they

Are unforgivable
Irredeemable
Inexcusable scum
Fit only to be strung up
In the village square
I will see you there

I am scared to say
Anything that may
Be taken the wrong way
But fuck it, baby

In the future, everyone
Everyone will have
15 minutes
15 minutes of shame
15 minutes where they
Are unforgivable
15 minutes
15 minutes of shame
15 minutes where they
Are unforgivable, irredeemable
Inexcusable
Unforgivable, irredeemable
Inexcusable
Unforgivable, irredeemable
Inexcusable
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Tim is wearing shoes

Unforgivable, irredeemable, inexcusable

RobOMcnugget

a new song WITH a video??? this cleared my skin, watered my plants, cured my depression, and kissed my cats on their soft lil heads

pannikocska

Only comedian I know who has branched out into more serious work so successfully and also somehow got more attractive as he aged.

haggler

Tim finally learned the guitar! He will no longer be a rock and roll nerd!

JLawrenceKenny

It was so great working on this music video, and im really happy with how it turned out(I was the monster, the plane at the start, and was in the red in the end)

oliverfletcher

Awesome! I can say that without it being hyperbole.

thejesuschrist

Dancers all do a great job, but I have to say I'm particularly impressed with the girl leading the group at the end: the energy, character, and taughtness in her performance is awesome

randersona

You know ... behind the clever lyrics, inspired musicianship and well crafted song structure ... there might just be ... an insightful and important social critique in there...

MutationELEVEN

Those kids are PRETTY well choreographed. I confess that I never expect to see a bunch of young teens rocking moves & facial expressions on stage like that. I was genuinely more interested in the visual story than the song, itself.

jaieet

OK, so some of my favorite bits about this...

He references Andy Warhol - In a "Pop" song.
He's wearing shoes, cut his hair, and left off the eye makeup - in a song about conformity
He comments on being afraid to say anything offensive - and only swears once
He makes a comment about being in the town square with everyone else - when we all know he has been on BOTH SIDES of that damn pillory
He's playing the electric guitar - in a song involving the ideas of popularity
"Welcome to the Glass House" - Yep, he's in it too folks, and he brought his fn stones.

ALSO
THE KIDS ARE AWESOME
Tim's fake-happy expression
THE KIDS ARE AWESOME
They throw a rock at Tim's head.
THE. KIDS. ARE. AWESOME.

There is so much perfectly right with this song. The only con?

I was really expecting it to be 15 minutes long.

GLAD TO HAVE YOU BACK TIM!

SBMShaneomaniac

Perhaps I'm spoiled by his previous work, but the only flaw I can find here is that it doesn't run exactly fifteen minutes 😏

seraphonica

Watching this again after a couple of years. Still relevant, things haven't changed a bit. I love this song, Tim is a brilliant showman.

francescamonte

2:45 Tim is never going to get over choosing piano instead of guitar, is he?

bygon

The more I watch this the more I take from it. Not a frame, not a dance move, not a facial expression wasted. As is usual, the attention to detail is phenomenal.
Stuff like this should be enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people. Wondrous.

stevieh