Subject: I can so totally outsing a Sue.
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Posted on: 2010-08-02 03:00:00 UTC
Give her some actual classical music or break out into some glass shattering opera and she won't be around for long. Modern pop music has nothing on anything before 1900.
But I agree. A Mary-Sue would most likely just....lip-synch or something equally as atrocious.
Does anyone remember where we kept all the silly songs we all wrote waaay back when? Been trying to find them, because I have this sudden urge to record them all. Or some of them, at the very least. I can sing tenor, but I think I'd mar some of the songs we wrote if I tried....Although I do enjoy busting into song in the subway with 'I Need An Agent' now and again.
Loudly and repeatedly.
Also requesting, sort of. Because I am requesting you to request me. XD If there's a song you'd like to see a PPC cover of - that has a karaoke or instrumental MP3 I can find online - that I can possibly do or you have written yourself, I'll try to sing it. =D If it turns out good, then great! If not, we can all laugh at how bad I sound!
The only song I ever decently sang was this one.
So, yeah.
Have a nice day guys! =D
~Keily, who is still around but has a lack of laptop right now
I don't have backing tracks, but I do have a copy of Ableton Live - useful post-recording software with compressors, EQs, and other useful tools to make a recording into music. If you want to toss recordings at me (preferably separate from the backing track), I can probably manage to clean them up a bit.
I always had trouble mixing the vocals with the backing track. I never seem to manage it well. I always manage to put the vocals off by half a second or something so the timing always seemed off. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I want to find these lyrics!
...and some recordings. The lyrics are no good without the tune. ;D
I think you'd do an excellent job, I listened to your recording and it gave me goosebumps!
I'd love to hear some of the PPC songs being recorded.
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Awesome! I tried to record "I Need An Agent" once but my lack of backing track and timing meant it sounded awful. I sing soprano and would be happy to help you out if you wanted/backing tracks can be found. XD
There are several links in this section of the Complete List of PPC Fiction. I think the ones you're particularly interested are in this LJ post, and I know you did at least one of the Holiday Songbook ones. The ones from last year are sadly not posted, but I expect I'll get to it around December, like usual.
You sound great in that recording (though rather a lot more like a soprano than a tenor O.o ). Any of the holiday ones you want to sing, I'd love to host in the Songbook. I've tried to do recordings of some of them, but I always sound like crap to myself upon playback. Plus it's kinda embarrassing, not knowing who might be able to hear me going on about Sue-slaying and such. {= P ... Although, I might be able to muster up the courage if you want to arrange some kind of duet. Because that would be awesome. I might even be able to talk Barid into singing bass/baritone.
~Neshomeh, some kinda mezzo-soprano.
I wish I could sing. I really wish I could. I'm likely some kind of first alto, but for some reason I am just really bad at singing beyond the camp songs I learned as a kid.
I'd make a cruddy elf, I guess.
Derp. I'd try to sing with you, though. You sound really good in that, Keily... @_@
-but those somgs are pretty entertaining, I gotta admit.
Camp songs are always fun! And does not require actual singing! =D So they always sound good, as long as it's sung by a group.
I can out sing a Sue any day. Huzzah for being classically trained! 12 years of going to a fine arts school...they do good things to you!
And make you fear directors. >_>
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It's ok. I have skin the texture of dragon scales anyway. What's funny is that most of my friends in real life are amazing at music, and I am sort of left in the dust. o.o
You can't out-sing a Sue. A Sue is perfect. But what you can do is actually sing, unlike a Sue, which can't actually sing but professes to the skill and mimicks actual singing in the shallowest way possible. She's perfect at singing, but what she sings is mostly lyrics blarfed out. Perfect, but... not actual singing. D:
Give her some actual classical music or break out into some glass shattering opera and she won't be around for long. Modern pop music has nothing on anything before 1900.
But I agree. A Mary-Sue would most likely just....lip-synch or something equally as atrocious.
I was looking for those~!
I can sing tenor, but there isn't a recording of me singing tenor. And if there was I respectfully asked people NOT to put them on the net, which results in my most embarrassing secret being not known (and that was I used to sing as Erik/The Phantom and my partner, who was a guy, sang Christine better than I could ever do).
Next time I sing as a tenor I'll happily post it up, because now I can laugh at myself for sounding like a girlish kind of guy.
That song was a cover, btw. Someone asked me to do a soprano cover of that song and I did. It was surprisingly easy.
I've been working on the PPC Anthem. It's...still in the works. XD Because it's pretty much a parody song of a parody song of an epic theme. So yeah. Much work.
Duets are always fuuuuun! A little hard, but fun! There was also a bunch of songs from musicals I've always wanted to do. Like the one where Mary-Sues have stormed Hogwarts and it's sung to the tune of 'Kill the Beast'. It was awesome. I can pull off Sue-ish singing pretty well, as awful as that must sound. XD
If we could find an awesome song for three, we should do it! Or even just a simple duet would work.
~Keily, who is excited about singing~!