Singing in public
No, I’m not talking about karaoke, that destroyer of great music, but the embarrassing moments when you realise that you’ve been singing away to your iPod in public. Is there really anything worse than noticing your fellow tube passengers, coffee shop patrons or gym addicts are giggling away at you as you tunelessly hum along to a Britney Spears number? Because it’s always something really tragic. Why can I never get caught singing along to something cool like The Xcerts or Twin Atlantic?
I was pleased to see it isn’t just me that it happens to. I was out making some enquiries about solar panel prices the other day and at one of the offices I went to here was an assistant in the back who was singing his heart out to that Starship song from the movie Mannequin. I think it’s called “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” but I actually hope that I’ve got that wrong in order to regain a little street creed after admitting that I listen to Britney in the gym. Look, her songs have a really good beat for exercising to – that’s all…
I think there is one thing more embarrassing than singing along to your iPod and that’s singing along at gigs and getting the words wrong. You see someone at every concert doing that. Mouthing vacantly, pretending they know what they’re doing, when really they have no clue what they should be singing. If you want to see a fine version of that, check out John Redwood at the Welsh Tory conference in the 90s pretending he knows the words to “Land of my Fathers”; comedy genius!
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