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TRIKORFO, Greece -- The monks keep rocking. After soaring up the pop charts in the summer, a group of Greek Orthodox monks are working on another music video for an upcoming single about the dangers of technology without restrictions.
The video features a gold-garbed man who represents an evil computer user armed with lots of personal data. The bearded monks belt out the lyrics to "Tsipaki," or "Little Computer Chip."
"I'm a chip, so small, that will lead you to slavery."
And this competes against Madonna and the dozens of superstar Greek singers? Somehow it does.
"It is not the music but the lyrics that are an issue," said Archimandrite Father Nektarios Moulatsiotis, one of five monks who contributed to the 10-song compact disk "I Learned to Live Free" released last year. "Today's music is sterile of messages."
The CD went platinum, selling more than 52,000 copies in the Greek market.
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