LJ Karaoke Party 2009! Gleek out and unleash your inner rockstar!

[tartanshell]

I was only half-serious when I suggested this last night, but then a friend actually took me up on the challenge, and it was really awesome. So! I'm making this Officially A Meme, because if the Holiday Wishlist thing could start here and explode like an explodey thing, who knows what will happen? :DOKAY SO. Here's the facts

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[mmmfishfingers]

OMG now it's just figuring out what song to sing ....
something from GLEE most likely....

[tartanshell]

*high-fives* You are so awesome! I can't wait to hear what you pick.

[mmmfishfingers]

now just to figure out how to blast the music and get it to carry to my phone hmmm
I could call from my cellphone that's near my stereo...
oooh so excited to deafen my flist with my horrid voice

[tartanshell]

*giggle* It's really fun! Strangely liberating, too.

[iambickilometer]

Can I get back to you on this in a few months when I've started hormone therapy?

[tartanshell]

Absolutely. *hugs* Do you naturally sing higher?

I was laughing after the fact, though. My song choices? ZOMG, could I have been any more obviously queering the pitch? (Btw, Queering the Pitch is a fantastic book if you're into LGBT studies and music.) Running down the list:
1. Trying to sound very male.
2. Singing higher/more feminine than comes naturally to sing a lesbian love song.
3. Singing (much) higher than I'm comfortable with a gay guy whose voice is much higher than mine.
4. Singing the male and female parts of a duet.

I need to do a song that is actually comfortable for me, zomg.

[iambickilometer]

My voice sounds pretty feminine on recordings. D: I'm a tenor, actually, but that doesn't seem to help.

That does sound like an interesting book, I'll have to check it out.

(For what it's worth, I thought your singing was quite well done. Little bit quiet, but still, quite good. :D)

[tartanshell]

It's weird how recordings can make us all sound so different! I think my speaking voice is normal to low, but on recordings (especially my answering machine) or the phone, I sound about twelve. When I pick up the phone at my parents' place, I occasionally get asked if my mommy is there.

I used to want to sing tenor! :) The C below middle C was my nemesis, though.

It is an interesting book! I think some of the stuff I was reccing you awhile ago, about gender-bending roles in opera, is in there.

(And thanks! ♥ Quiet because despite appearances, I am a wimp.)

I don't even know.

[thedaytheystop]

So, I don't know you at all, and I totally just saw this on someone's flist and was like wait SINGING and yeah....um.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/69488196fc7ae6be/
(Pink - Who Knew, + me!)

I've always felt left out of the singing world because my mom and sister are really big singers and I...well...I played bassoon and I've never had a voice lesson in my life, but singing is FUN, yo!

p.s. I tried to do Defying Gravity and I def def def cannot sing that high, so. No Glee. But there was at least Gleeful effort!
p.p.s. the first time I posted the link got messed up! So I deleted that one. Sorry!

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[tartanshell]

Hi! And omg, you're so awesome for doing this! (Also because of your Starbuck icon and bassoon playing. I used to play the oboe. Double reeds rock.)

Thank you for sharing! I'm going to go listen now. :D

[frek]

I had to wait until we got out of the hospital to do this. But now that we're home, I thought I'd share a couple that I recorded. I apologize for the low audio. I used the microphone in my webcam, so it's not as loud and clear as I'd like it to be. <3

Sally's Song from The Nightmare Before Christmas

Famous Blue Raincoat written by Leonard Cohen

<3!