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What was once common and done by everyone is now considered a superpower. Course I mean singing

submitted by Crackinjokes to TellUpgoat 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 14:53:01 ago (+2/-0)     (TellUpgoat)

It's really struck me how today and really anytime in the last 30 to 40 years if you were brave enough to stand up and crown out a song whether you were good or not as people like Bob Dylan and proved it was a ticket to wealth and fame beyond imagination. Yet if you lived in the 1800s one of the most commonly held skills among say young women was specifically cultivated in every young woman was taught to sing well and usually could play an instrument as well. So we think of it now as a rare thing but it actually isn't it's just been drummed into our brain that most people aren't good singers and a very few people are great singers and worthy of tons of praise Fame and money.

The other aspect of that is even before Auto-Tune which hit the market back with the Celine Dion and Cher singing a song or two 10 or so years ago performers even live were helped so much by electronics that people would be shocked to know that they could probably sing as well as a lot of the performers they thought had incredible voices. The lead singer for journey is a perfect example. Steve perry. I had the chance to hear his raw voice from a live concert in his production van which followed the band around. Even back in the mid 80s and their heyday they could make his voice sound incrediblely volumetric and resonant. In actual fact it wasn't. If you ask anybody they say he had an amazing voice but if they heard the wrong track they think they could sing as well as he could and 50% of the people could.

I would encourage anybody to never listen to anybody who says they don't sing well or don't play an instrument well because that is not required. If you can get in a room full of people and make any noise at all with any kind of emotional content to it you will be put on a pedestal in a way that you cannot replicate through even the greatest business dealings or other skills. It's simply amazing. I've seen it in office parties all my life and of course we see the tremendous Fame and wealth that is brought to singers today.


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[ - ] stillmostlyfriendly 0 points 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 17:33:40 ago (+0/-0)

The delta is God and church, or a lack-there-of.

Years ago - everyone sang as part of communal worship. More to the point - songs were written to be sung by the masses. Now songs are written to be sung by auto-tuned pop stars. This 'modern' music sucks when the average man tries to sing it.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 0 points 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 16:53:05 ago (+0/-0)

I have been playin in bands for 40 years. Good singers are RARE as hell.

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 2 points 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 15:40:31 ago (+2/-0)

You've never been to karaoke night, have you? They do one where I work. Every week it's the same handful of drunk bitches, singing the same damn songs. Sounds like they're strangling cats. Fuckin Shania Twain owes the world an apology.

[ - ] GrayDragon 2 points 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 17:24:24 ago (+2/-0)

Let's go girls ...

[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 0 points 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 17:42:32 ago (+0/-0)

See! GrayDragon fuckin knows what I'm talking about.

[ - ] Drstrangestgov 0 points 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 23:37:50 ago (+0/-0)

I used to sing a pretty good rendition of "secret agent man"

[ - ] i_scream_trucks 1 point 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 15:35:18 ago (+1/-0)

using common sense.

[ - ] snowpeach 0 points 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 15:12:46 ago (+0/-0)

I would encourage anybody to never listen to anybody who says they don't sing well or don't play an instrument well because that is not required.

So true. It's very charming if man tries to sing to a woman, even if it's a bit rough and all notes are not right. :)

[ - ] i_scream_trucks 1 point 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 15:38:05 ago (+1/-0)*

one of my clients is a young disabled fella. doesnt realise hes got far bigger balls than me. i went skydiving a couple of months back, loved it, wasnt at any point afraid of what i was doing.

took this guy to a karaoke night with his choir group, nek minit hes doing a duet duet - not a quartet - after some fucking around (100% my fault... he cant get on a stage on his frame, so he sits on the stage, the other three stand next to him, problem solved) hes paired of with a bit of a honey from the group (with another pair doing the other half of the 'duet') and belting something out. told him straight up my memory of being his age, is melting into the floor when a hottie asked me to do something like that with her, then spending 30 something years kicking my own ass for not doing it. his mum loved the pics and i was mildly jealous!

dude gets an awesome memory i know damn well he will remember for good reason.

cant bring myself to dance or get up in front of a group and sing, but give me a bunch of first aid training gear and 150 people to train ill absolutely go to town for 8 hours straight and love it.

[ - ] snowpeach 0 points 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 16:12:58 ago (+0/-0)

well, who knows what you avoided then. :)

actually you have a good point, next time someone will try to sing to me very romantically, I will just go skydiving, problems solved.

[ - ] i_scream_trucks 1 point 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 22:54:20 ago (+1/-0)

i had to laugh about it. the story i tell is if you pointed to the right and told me theres a bunch of girls in there that really want to talk to me then pointed to the left and said theres a plane and a parachute there.... im going left. might even consider landing at the bar for poon points.... but even if i did... im still noping out of that fucking place... without talking to anyone and regretting it for years. ex fiancee might have been an a grade hottie... but she was a drunken asshole...

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 0 points 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 17:47:43 ago (+0/-0)

cant bring myself to dance or get up in front of a group and sing, but give me a bunch of first aid training gear and 150 people to train ill absolutely go to town for 8 hours straight and love it.

It's something that takes practice. Dancing is fine, dancing in front of a thousand people is a bit different. Same with all skills.

I'm the kind of asshole who will absolutely ask the teacher a dumb or complex question in front of 300 bored people. But you're not gonna get up there to teach the math.

[ - ] i_scream_trucks 0 points 8 monthsOct 8, 2024 22:52:19 ago (+0/-0)

i was fuckin terrified on my first two or three days thinking i was going to be shit at it, 'i dont have any stories' - ive been a first aider now for 30 years. turns out i got plenty of stories, and somehow could answer any question they had. when you can get to a full non online advanced first aid course, realise your computer is fucked and therefore no powerpoint.... and can still present it all well enough to get everyone a satisfactory pass... you done good.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 0 points 8 monthsOct 9, 2024 00:21:02 ago (+0/-0)

I learned my first aid long before they used powerpoint for it. Lots of physical practice objects and several testers/observers for each class though. With the smaller, military-oriented classes we had plenty of time for Q+A while practicing.