Things Learned from Reality Singing Competitions

  • What people from other states look like
  • How bad my sense of geography really is — I think this is a general Californian problem, or a specific Los Angeles Unified School District Problem.
  • If your parents are priests, you are going to blow my mind
  • No one on The X-Factor is even vaguely cool, but everyone on The Voice is way cooler than me. Is there a singing show for averagely cool people? What about averagely cool people that can only kind of sing?
  • You can come back 10 years later and be on a reality show about losing weight (Ruben Studdard)
  • I know how to spell Ruben Studdard without looking it up
  • America, we have seemingly infinite talent, but also seemingly infinite distalent
  • If your child/roommate/love interest/ potential love interest (PLI) can’t sing, PLEASE TELL THEM BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE
  • I love judging people, even though I pretty much can’t sing well at all

16 thoughts on “Things Learned from Reality Singing Competitions

  1. philosophermouseofthehedge's avatar
    philosophermouseofthehedge says:

    Seriously funny.
    Wish they would go back and do a most horrid performer show. (but they could only do it once – people would catch on and pretend to be horrible just to be on TV…horrible only works if performers really believe they are good)

  2. Corvidae in the Fields's avatar
    Corvidae in the Fields says:

    Observation #2: No, it’s not just a California problem. I’ve made my embarrassing slip ups (i.e. saying the Everglades were “close” to Jacksonville), but am virtually an atlas to my contemporaries. It’s a little concerning.

    Observation #4: You’ll need to pitch this to someone. I’m seeing a sort of “Karaoke Tonight” with the best intoxicated versions of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” LA has to offer.

    Observation #9: This is why you’re a humorist and not a singer. Know thy strengths.

  3. Cris's avatar
    Cris says:

    Loved your second to the last point.

    I have a friend who loves to kaorki (however you spell the **** word) but can’t sing on key. She’s the only one who knows she can’t sing, but why should I be the one to ruin her fantasy world? We all have our fantasy worlds. Besides, it’s too late already. Way too late. And I like having her as a friend. Telling someone she can’t sing when she thinks she can is just not the best idea. I just can’t sing at the same time as she does or I’m not able to keep on key myself.

    By the way, thanks for liking my Halloween post on my f-stop fantasy blog. See? We all have our own fantasies. I like to think I can take pleasing photographs. 🙂

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