Choirboys sing to impress girls? Music to my ears | Tom Usher

I was a teenage choirboy - so it doesn't surprise me that the timbre of their voices changes when girls are around. Love, or lust, makes peacocks of us all

On the one hand, love is just a chemical reaction, an evolutionary necessity that fuels humanity's moistly metronomic purpose of incessant reproduction. On the other hand, it is pretty much the sole reason our god-forsaken species has ever had any meaning, one of the most insistent and eternal muses to the beauty of human creativity. When the horizon turns to ash before our eyes, love (or let's face it, lust) will be one of the reasons we could be to proud to exist, however briefly.

And so to choirboys, with recent research showing that the main reason to join the choir isn't for the love of exulting to the heavens, but the love of the opposite sex. That's right: young boys are joining not because they want to flex their creativity via the harmonies of the holy spirit but because they want to impress girls. The heathens.

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