About this episode

Amelia explores instances of bad art throughout history, focusing on examples that are so bad they're good.

I don't blame you for not knowing what the episode title means. This week Amelia is going to look at bad art at a few points in history, but the sort of things where it's so bad it's good. So we'll be looking at some bad artwork, some bad singing, and some truly awful translations. The following music was used for this podcast: "Anachronist" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Queen of the Night Aria performed by Florence Foster Jenkins Thank you for the Music performed by Jeremy Hardy from BBC's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Amelia

Topics covered

• bad art
• history
• bad singing
• translations
• humor

Keywords

• bad art
• history
• humor
• translations
• bad singing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BBC

Books & works: Queen of the Night Aria

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