• Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    2-3 times a week at least on my block at a volume you cannot get away from as it is outside in the square in front of my home. Lots of really bad singers.

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      9 months ago

      I’ve never heard someone doing karaoke that wasn’t an awful singer.

      Most sound like a beached whale.

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        9 months ago

        Excuse me, but I got an ovation doing karaoke twice in two different places.

        It’s the only two times outside of high school plays anyone ever clapped for me, so I appreciated it.

        That said, I used to do VO work and I have (or maybe had at this point, I’m way out of practice) a knack for doing impersonations, including musical ones. The first time I did Minnie the Moocher with a passable Cab Calloway, and the second time I did Space Oddity doing a damn perfect Bowie if I do say so myself.

        I only got paid to sing once though. And it wasn’t to sing well.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq3tVrTFcKk

        Also, that show never made it to TV, so it only exists on YouTube. They were really nice guys though. (I only did the singing, not the puppetry, and I never met the kid.)

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            9 months ago

            No one has in quite a while. I haven’t done it since my daughter was born. At first because I had no time and later because I’m just not into going to bars anymore. So it’s been a good 13 years. And even back then I didn’t exactly do it every weekend.

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              9 months ago

              FWIW, I once almost got offered an album deal.

              The CIA ultimately went with crying babies because they didn’t have to pay them.

              It’s not how I go looking for a note. It’s not even how I find the wrong note…. It’s how I find all the notes.

              So everyone who’s not heard me sing. Your welcome .

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        9 months ago

        I wish that was true where I live, then I wouldn’t be the only one. That supposed to be the whole idea of it, too.