Comment on No like really bro I’m just here for the silly shoes

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• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You know what’s funny? I’m an excellent singer. Years of formal training, sang professionally for years. But take me to a karaoke bar and I will be the suckiest sucky fuck there. Why? Because on a professional stage it’s a different vibe. Very focused, very intense, and if you try to do that in a karaoke bar you look like a fucking tool, so instead I try to be casual, not use my “pro” technique, and I end up sounding like shit.

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  • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yup, my ex is literally a professional singer. Take her to kareoke and it’s like strangling a cat. On purpose, because she doesn’t want to be a dick.

    Meanwhile I mumble while keeping the mic as far from me as possible, because I suck at singing in an entirely organic manner

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  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which is hillarious because I’ve been kicked out of Karaoke bars for laughing too hard at my own rendition of Islands in the stream by Dolly Parton with my drunk buddy as Kenny Rogers. It was magical and hillarious.

    Karaoke bars are often polluted with a pestillence of people who think they are undiscovered musical geniuses who are minutes away from being discovered by a record label executive trolling the depths of karaoke shitholes looking for the next great pop-star. Anything that fucks with their discoverability makes them go coocoo.

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  • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah you have to like unlearn so much to not look like a tryhard

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it true that karaoke shifts the pitch by a couple semitones, because people normally don’t hear their own voice from outside their skull, and this ends up throwing professional singers off?

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  • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I also have this problem

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Strangely, I am basically the opposite of this.

    No formal training whatsoever, basically only sing in the car, shower, or karaoke bars.

    I am nowhere near good enough to be some kind of professional vocalist, but I am usually am in the top 3 singers by actual ability to hit the right notes on songs, at any given karaoke / bar outing.

    I’ll usually try to cajole another actually good singer into some kind of duet, be it either an actual proper duet, or basically if its like a song from a singer with incredible range in the song, i do the baritone lines, they do the tenor or falsetto, we both sing the mid range, etc.

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s why they always use really shitty microphones— to level the playing field

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why? Singing and making music is a worthwhile goal that you generally achieve by some other means than doing a lot of karaoke. But to get good at bowling you have to specifically have practiced bowling.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Singing is not karaoke. Karaoke is bad singing with enthusiasm.

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I dunno what “good at karaoke” means other than singing well.

      Don’t get me wrong, I also find it annoying when a group goes to karaoke and there’s the one theatre kid who can actually sing and just embarrasses everyone else, but I’d still say they’re good

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