Writer's Block: I Rock The Microphone

[tinhuviel]

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"Magic Man" by Heart, "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey, "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" by Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty (I sing the hell out of this with My Friend Todd), "Elvira" by the Oak Ridge Boys (with clumsycake and Paulette....those were the days), "What's Going On" by Four Non Blondes, and I could go on because I'm a pathetic karaoke whore. If I had band, maybe I wouldn't have to depend on karaoke so much. Any takers?

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[zitronenhai.livejournal.com]

My karaoke classic is "...Baby One More Time" by Denniz PoP and Max Martin. I have won prizes singing this song. They secret to my success is that I can sing, and Britney Spears cannot, and it's an easy song, and I sound totally fucking awesome, and people are so shocked that they just think I am amazing. I even noodle around soulfully, which makes drunk people pee their pants with delight.

I also do, "That Don't Impress Me Much" by Shania Twain, can do just about any Stevie Nicks song you throw at me, and, sadly, "The Reason" by Hoobastank.

I once got a guy in the sack by singing "Walking After Midnight" by Patsy Cline. It was just like a movie. He didn't know I could sing, so I surprised him, and he was mesmerized, staring at me just like some stupid scene out of a stupid-ass romantic comedy. Barf! He was a jackass, but I got some free drinks.

I've never done "Careless Whisper" by Wham!, but I could, and it would be awesome.

When I was in the first of a string of about five bands, I was by far the best singer of the three who could sing (one other woman and a guy who had, by his own admission, a one-note range), so that was great strokes for the ego. I sang a several Stevie songs, some Timbuk 3, a version of "Betrayal's Just A Game" by Was (not Was) and some other shit, but my signature cover tune was "Stuck in the Middle" by Stealer's Wheel, a song I strongly identified since childhood. I remember looking at my parents in the front seat of the car and thinking, "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am..."

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[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

If we ever get together in real-life someday, we need to go out and sing like bloody birds.

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[falkenna.livejournal.com]

I want to come too! I envy you finding bands to sing with, I am made of fail in that area. (Not that my voice is all that good, but with practice to overcome my nerves I could be a crackin' performer.)

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[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

I think you have a lovely voice.

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[falkenna.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks.

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[zitronenhai.livejournal.com]

I had a lucky break back in 1990. I worked with a drummer's wife, and the singer for one of his bands was moving to China, of all places. I emerged from the building at the end of my day and hit a loud "opera note," which he heard because he was waiting outside to pick her up. So they asked me to audition. :)

Those days are long over now, of course.