Complaint Choirs

Want a really good whine? Head west. From Vancouver's hatred of the Canada Line, selfish drivers and abysmal health care (and rain) to Bariola Island's three wait for a hip replacement, excessive water use by visitors and clear-cut logging (and rain), B.C. is at the vanguard of kvetching- choral harmony.
Complaint choirs, which set life's little irritants to music-Real food is expensive, junk food is cheap/The jokes are not funny, don't e-mail them to me-were created by two Finnish artists and first adopted in 2005 by a choir in England that notoriously whinging nation.
Misery must really love company. From Birmingham, the idea gained global traction fast, popping up in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the U. S. and Australia. But with four choirs, B.C. reportedly has the highest concentration.
It's less short-tempered than long on laughs, suggests Andrew Carroll, who wrote the grouchy jingle sung by a 15-strong choir at the local United Church. "We've never taken ourselves too seriously on the West Coast." he says. Complaints is a misnomer. This a way of pointing out things in your community that you're not happy with but it's done in tongue in check way.
Complaint choir express the universality of human disgruntlement. "We realized that we're not so different from people in Copenhagen or Tokyo or Mumbai."
There's a great deal of evidence to support the positive effect of music and how it affects your brainwaves. What's more, airing grievances musically could be therapeutic, according to Vancouver-based community psychiatrist Ursual Gutteridge. "ever since Freud's daughter, Anna, described 'ventilation' or venting as a defence mechanism-as a way humans cope with life-society has realized the importance of complaining and having those complaints validated.
It is suggested that there would be more fun in forming a gratitude choir. Something to think about.
Singing any one?