# People Who Think They Can Sing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 11, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891 "2002-09-11T01:19:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/41 "2002-09-14T14:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lure \* > \*\*However it was that sang the national anthem at the Monday football game in NE.I was in the kitchen when I heard this terrible voice trying to impart some feeling into his rendition and had to come in the LR so I could see who it was.The caption told me he was from one of the boy bands (NSync-backstreet Boys?) apparently a Boston product. > > He needs to stick with the group and their acoustical enhancements.He’s apparently tone deaf. \*\* I’m glad that I’m not the only one who noticed that. It was remarkably awful. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WSLer \* > \*\*I just have one thing to say to y’all: > Jealousy’s an ugly thing. > > All of you have simply fabulous singing voices, right? > \*\* It’s not jealousy at all. I can’t carry a tune in a wheelbarrow. The important difference is, I’m not on a CD or on TV trying to convice anyone otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ZombiesAteMyBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZombiesAteMyBrain)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/42 "2002-09-14T14:24:10Z")
I can’t carry a tune in a wheelbarrow. The important difference is, I’m not on a CD or on TV trying to convice anyone otherwise. \*\* [/QUOTE] And I hate people who THINK they can sing and do so, publicly, when you’re out with friends - so embarrassing … “I’m not with that person, honestly!!!” ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/43 "2002-09-14T14:47:57Z")
If you can find it, listen to William Shatner’s solo album _ **The Transformed Man** _. It was the album that both of the Shatner songs on _Golden Throats_ were lifted from. It contains 3 other songs performed by ol’ Captain Kirk himself, plus 5 egotistical readings of passages from various Shakespeare plays. ---
**Author:** ![Forbin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5e9695/32.png) [@Forbin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Forbin)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/44 "2002-09-14T14:57:27Z")
Okay **WSLer** , you’re on. \ My girl likes to party all the time, party all the time. party alllll the time My girl likes to party all the time, party all the time. party alllll the time My girl likes to party all the time, party all the time. party alllll the time \ Hey! Why are you holding your hands over your ears? 😛 FWIW I studied voice for a few years, and sang in La Traviata and Manon. I’m not jealous of Eddie Murphy, or his singing (ability?). ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/45 "2002-09-14T15:36:31Z")
**WSLer** As I’ve been known to say “I can’t sing real good, but I can sing real loud.” The fact that I can’t sing has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I think The Two Davids can’t sing either and posted this opinion in this thread. It has nothing to do with them selling CDs either. No one is forced to by CDs from singers they don’t like. And just because _I_ don’t like 'em doesn’t mean no one else will (as evidenced by **Uke Ike’s** insistance that Bob Dylan can sing.) And I would like to add for the record that I am not jealous of David Soul or David Hasselhoff. I just do not like their singing voices. Furthermore-- there have been singers in this thread who I think have perfectly fine singing voices and I suspect they have been included here because the poster just doesn’t like the type of music they sing-- sorta the mirror image of the Bob Dylan thing-- but it would be quite presumptuous of me to roll my eyes at them and tell them that they are just jealous. But I will tell them I don’t agree with them: Eddie Murphy-- Weak voice, stupid song but not a horrible singer. Carol Burnette-- Strong voice. Brassy and mostly played for laughs, but a pretty good singer. Alanis Morrisette-- Strong, idiosyncratic and that yodel puts a lot of people off, but I absolutely loooove her. Christine Aguilera has a hella voice! Why she wastes it on some of that material is beyond me. And I liked Genie In A Bottle. Shakira-- Again a good, strong, distinctive singing voice. I see a female pop singer pattern emerging. Celine Dion-- See above. ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/46 "2002-09-14T15:51:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WSLer \* > \*\*I just have one thing to say to y’all: > Jealousy’s an ugly thing. > > All of you have simply fabulous singing voices, right? > Sure.:rolleyes: I believe that, Nixon, The Easter Bunny & Santa Claus. \*\* Well I don’t claim to be a fabulous singer, but I do get paid to sing, so I can’t be _that_ bad :). I’ll let you be the judge of that… [Dreamer’s Band](http://hometown.aol.com/One4dreamer/Kite.html) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/47 "2002-09-14T16:27:33Z")
But allow me to note your total babe-ness! Is there a present or potential Mr Dreamer? And hurrah for you being inpired by Tori! But are you familiar with the Divine Kate B? ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/48 "2002-09-14T16:52:54Z")
I’d like to point out for the sake of nitpicking that everyone can sing. Most of us just can’t sing well. The real issue here isn’t people who think they can sing (they certainly can), it’s people who think they sing well (most of them cannot). Just my little nitpick. Please carry on. ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/49 "2002-09-14T23:56:40Z")
Why thank you **FriarTed** , that is very sweet :). Was there a reason you could not hear my MP3’s? In answer to your questions, if you scroll down the front page there is a BIO of the band members and if you notice the first two have the same last names. That would be **Mr.dreamer** and myself :). Yes, I am also a fan of Kate Bush and am looking forward to her new CD. ---
**Author:** ![HoodWink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8797f3/32.png) [@HoodWink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoodWink)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/50 "2002-09-15T01:12:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*Let’s (not) hear it for the Davids. Hasselhoff and Soul. Does anyone remember David Soul’s top 10 hit? > > _Don’t give up on us, baby > Don’t make the wrong seem right. . ._ \*\* Oh my God, Biggirl…my mother was in LOVE with Soul. I remember an album but thankfully my memory fades when the needle hit the vinyl:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Naz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@Naz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Naz)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/51 "2002-09-15T02:21:14Z")
> [@](#): > > If you can find it, listen to William Shatner’s solo album The Transformed Man. I’ve got that one. Burned it from a friend’s copy (he’s got a thing for collecting music that nobody else wants). It’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/52 "2002-09-15T02:52:21Z")
Just couldn’t let the Carol Burnett reference pass without pointing out that years before her eponymous T.V. show, Carol’s career was made on the night of August 6, 1957, when she sang “I Made A Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles” on the Jack Paar show. That night she stopped the show and became an instant national celebrity. She subsequently turned the off-Broadway musical “Once Upon A Mattress” into a huge Broadway hit. Then there were the specials in which she sang with Julie Andrews and opera star Beverly Sills. Someone must think she can sing. And I love “Don’t Give Up On Us Baby”. ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2002, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/53 "2002-09-15T03:30:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Soup\_du\_jour \* > And I am a bloody good singer. (Have gotten paid for it, too!) Since we have something in common **Soup\_du\_jour** , I’m just curious. Are you in a band? What kind of stuff do you sing? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2002, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/54 "2002-09-23T16:00:19Z")
hiya Dreamer! (I haven’t seen any posts from you since before the Board Crash) I think I need to update my RealPlayer because the file wasn’t connecting in the RealJukebox. Will check your site for the BIOs. yeah, it would be great if a Kate Bush album appeared sometime soon- since its been in the works for maybe 10 years! _L_ Tori is releasing another next month! Are you familiar with a 1960’s song by Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra, covered by Goth rocker Lydia Lunch- SOME VELVET MORNING ? ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/55 "2002-09-24T22:23:09Z")
Nope, never heard that song. Maybe I’ll look it up in my file-sharing system :). Can’t wait for Tori’s new CD, I was pretty disappointed with her last release. I’ve been a fan of hers since the beginning and have met her quite a few times as well. Have you heard her in “Y Kant Tori Read”? Let me know if you can hear my MP3’s and what you think. No one has ever commented on my voice, though I’ve shared my cite many times so maybe you’ll be the first :D. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2002, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891/56 "2002-09-25T13:21:32Z")
never have heard Y Kant; I’m hoping that maybe as Tori gets older, she loosens up about that & re-releases it. Strange Little Girls was rather odd- my least favorite of her albums tho I liked it better the second time I listened to it. Still, when I’m in a Tori mood, I’ll generally reply LI’L E’QUAKES. If I can ever get the MP3’s loaded, I sure will [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-think-they-can-sing/127891.md?page=2)