i think it’s genuinely worse when people are good at karaoke
No like really bro I’m just here for the silly shoes
Submitted 4 weeks ago by chicken@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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estrange_alien@leminal.space 4 weeks ago
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Yeah you have to like unlearn so much to not look like a tryhard
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks 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
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I also have this problem
fartographer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
When taken to karaoke, I’ll sing only one song, and it’ll be an aggressive metal song sung and screamed with my full energy and passion that I used to give at live performances. And then I’ll quietly sit for the rest of the night, enjoying the knowledge that no one else will try to pressure me into singing another song.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks 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.
homes@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
That’s why they always use really shitty microphones— to level the playing field
FishFace@piefed.social 4 weeks 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.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Singing is not karaoke. Karaoke is bad singing with enthusiasm.
yesman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Baseball?
platypode@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Not sure where you’re getting this info from, because it’s horribly wrong.
Per Baseball Reference, corroborated by Savant:
- Rich Hill is not an active MLB player
- Verlander weighs 240
- Scherzer weighs 208
- Martin is 39yo, 6’8”
- Santana is 40yo, 5’10” 210lb
Leaving aside that you’re calling 43yo/6’5”/240lb “old and fat”—that’s below average BMI even before accounting for BMI not accurately representing the fatness of elite athletes
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Pitchers stand there for a lot of the game and need to be tall to throw so it makes sense that most of your list are pitchers past their prime.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Carlos Santana plays baseball???
Is there nothing that man can’t do???
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Carlos Santana
Damn, talk about a renaissance man
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Curling is a thing
Even the olympic gold metal winners are old fat dudes. Image
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 4 weeks ago
I was the guy that owned his own bowling balls (yes, plural) and shoes. In my twenties. Mostly because it was near impossible to find a ball that had the right weight and hole size.
But I have a story: I went to an Evangelical university in the early 2000s. Start of sophomore year they held a bowling tournament at the local alley. So me and two friends signed up. But we first went to the thrift store and bought cheap polyester suits and enormous aviator sunglasses, aiming for something out of the “Sabotage” music video. Our other friend decided to dress up like he was our “muscle” by wearing an outfit like you’d see in the background of the “Beat It” music video. We walked into the alley (which had not been updated since probably 1981, other than the scoring screens) and decided to take on personas like we owned the place, talking trash and generally acting like we existed in a different plane from everyone else. I kept an unlit cigarette in my mouth the whole time. I was the first of our team to bowl and, quite magically, I got a strike right out the gate.
All these church youth-group types were our competition. They had no idea how to deal with us. We won our match and then went to the bar, ordering Miller High Life and pretending we were regulars. Then the guy who held the event came up to us. Apparently drinking alcohol at a university sponsored event is a VERY serious no-no. Even though the official stance was that students of legal age were allowed to drink (at extremely moderate levels), alcohol was not allowed on campus nor, apparently, at events. Oops. Perhaps because we were having a good time they let it slide (I was also an RA at the time, which probably helped). Either way, we finished 3rd.
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Ok so honest question… why tf would you go to an evangelical university?
synapse1278@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Hey, Niko!..
A7thStone@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You’re not wrong. You’re just an asshole.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Back when the small town I grew up in still had a bowling alley, I was regularly scoring perfect games.
fireweed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
genuinely nothing worse than going bowling
with people who are actually good. like why are you doing all thatCapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Poll: Anyone ever have hipsters in their highschool go through a bowling shoe phase?
Upvote = yes Downvote = no
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Bowling shoes no, but I remember saddle shoes having a resurgence with hipsters and I think the stereotypical bowling shoes are a type of saddle shoe.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Only because you mentioned shoes: all three of the main generals involved in the Battle of Waterloo (Wellington, Blucher and Napoleon) had a type of shoe or boot named after them.
otacon239@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I might be guilty of this. Used to go every week with a friend and eventually started figuring out my stride. Now I’m the one that does better than a casual player and it’s weird.
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Unfortunately, I’m infected with the “Why do something unless you’re trying to get gud?”
Which means, I’ll try something for a while and if I think I have some base talent as a foundation and I don’t have anything else I’m obsessed with at the time I’m absolutely going to fixate on it until I’m really good. But if I think I’m doomed to mediocrity I completely lose interest in it. Note that I don’t have to start off good, I just need to feel an intuition of “Oh, I could go somewhere with this.”
I suck at bowling and I don’t ever want to do it. I only begrudgingly do it because friends drag me to it and if they let me I’ll sit out and just chit chat instead of actually playing.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
gray@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
same with karaoke
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The best way to bowl is to put the rails up so no one can gutter ball, then play for lowest score. It’s impossible to take serious, no one can be good or bad at it, a 7/10 split still sucks, and the people in the next lane will be very confused.
Fun all around.