# singing talent is inheritable

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-talent-is-inheritable/167551>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 9, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-talent-is-inheritable/167551 "2003-04-09T14:42:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-talent-is-inheritable/167551/1 "2003-04-09T14:42:26Z")

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Lisa Marie Presley can sing.  
I saw her video on ( I think) MTV.  
Shes’ darn good, and not just a pretty face ala J Lo.

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**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-talent-is-inheritable/167551/2 "2003-04-09T17:15:39Z")

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Now see…I took her trying to sing as a sign of the apocolypse.

I think she (unfortunately) looks like her dad, and sounds like Mr. Ed.

And she has that whole $cientology thing going on.  
But other than that, yeah, she’s cool I guess.

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/singing-talent-is-inheritable/167551/3 "2003-04-09T20:10:27Z")

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See, I clicked on this thread all prepared to talk smack like “but in the Presley family it skips a generation.” I saw (most of) the video although I had earphones on listening to something else. From what I saw, the video is either amazingly amateurish or an amazingly clever spoof on every video cliche ever.