Comments | lordandrei: So.. if you had to choose

lordandrei

So.. if you had to choose

Jan 21, 2008 09:34

I came up with one of those questions that is "The lesser of two evils"

I realize that this really won't effect everyone. Some people just don't mind this at all. So I was curious... 'if you had to pick...."

Poll So if you had to choose... when it comes to someone singing a songThis has to do with friends singing songs that are fairly well known socially. Disney, Musical, Gaia Pixie (sic), etc ( Read more... )

fan, accuracy, poll, music

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tailerouge January 21 2008, 18:34:52 UTC

As a musician, I voted for no. 2, but it's more complicated than that. If someone get some of the notes wrong but gets the *shape* of the melody (Animaniacs enthusiasts will know what I mean), that doesn't bug me so much.

On the other hand, I'm known to be anal about the words, too. When somebody's misquoting something, my initial reaction is to say (silently, if I'm feeling polite that day), "Well, actually it's ..." -- even is difference is excruciatingly minor.

On the other ... er, thirdly, it depends on the context.

s00j January 21 2008, 20:14:08 UTC

what bugs me most is playing a verrry popular song and having a soundman who doesn't have the wits to realize that, um, Alec's mic needs to come up when the audience is louder than we are....*hem*...inside voice, outside voice?

in the case of the poll, harmony is acceptable. honking is not.

matertiamat January 21 2008, 18:45:45 UTC

I have to admit, it drives me batshit crazy when people get the words wrong. Mondegreens, I think they call those.

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey. A kiddley divey do, wooden shoe.

tzaddi_93 January 21 2008, 18:48:08 UTC

I tend to be bothered by completely different things.

1) Purpose of the singing: If people are singing to have a good time and it's not a performance, I get really pissed off when someone becomes a fascist about pitch. (Example, if you're singing someone "Happy Birthday" or people are singing along on a car ride, it's just rude to interrupt the fun to correct someone's pitch.)

2) Appropriateness of the singing: If most of the people in the room want to sing, great. That can be loads of fun. If part of a group wants to sing while the other part of a group has conversation, no problem. People are having the kind of fun interaction they like and are able to enjoy the time spent together. If part of a group wants to sing while the other part of a group wants to have conversation and the singers are spread throughout the room or otherwise singing so loudly that conversation is impossible, not so good.

lordandrei January 21 2008, 19:53:09 UTC

Gemini!

tzaddi_93 January 21 2008, 22:21:10 UTC

What was your first clue?

contentlove January 21 2008, 18:48:26 UTC

The answer to that question relies heavily on context:

Where, when, and why are they singing it? Because I don't care at all if it's in the shower. Otoh, if it's at an audition, if they don't know the melody, I consider them incompetent, but I might give them a pass for bobbling a word.

paulrhume January 21 2008, 20:09:45 UTC

It's a hard call, but went with words.

"She may get wooly
Girls they do get wooly
Cause of all the stress.
Oh yes.
When she gets wooly
Try a little tenderness."

- "Nuke" LaLouche, in Bull Durham