i think it’s genuinely worse when people are good at karaoke
No like really bro I’m just here for the silly shoes
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estrange_alien@leminal.space 12 hours ago
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 10 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.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour 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
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Yeah you have to like unlearn so much to not look like a tryhard
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 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?
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
I also have this problem
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 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.
homes@piefed.world 11 hours ago
That’s why they always use really shitty microphones— to level the playing field
FishFace@piefed.social 11 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.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Singing is not karaoke. Karaoke is bad singing with enthusiasm.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Hey, Niko!..
yesman@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Baseball?
platypode@sh.itjust.works 11 hours 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 9 hours ago
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 hours 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 10 hours ago
Carlos Santana plays baseball???
Is there nothing that man can’t do???
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 10 hours 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 7 hours ago
Ok so honest question… why tf would you go to an evangelical university?
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 6 hours ago
Raised evangelical.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 hours ago
Back when the small town I grew up in still had a bowling alley, I was regularly scoring perfect games.
fireweed@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
genuinely nothing worse than going bowling
with people who are actually good. like why are you doing all thatGates9@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Poll: Anyone ever have hipsters in their highschool go through a bowling shoe phase?
Upvote = yes Downvote = no
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 5 hours 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.
otacon239@lemmy.world 12 hours 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.
gray@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
same with karaoke
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 11 hours 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.