Singing For People You Know Well
Singing For People You Know Well
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1Singing For People You Know Well
Posted: 7/15/07 at 3:51amAnyone else feel weird about singing for people you know very well? I cannot do it at all.
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#2re: Singing For People You Know Well
Posted: 7/15/07 at 4:00amYes, I tend to get very nervous when I know the person extremely well. Especially when I have to sing for a certain director I have spent loads of time with. I just can't deal with letting him down, or making him hear something that is less than desirable.
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Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#2re: Singing For People You Know Well
Posted: 7/15/07 at 4:02amFor example, my parents have never heard me sing...
#3re: Singing For People You Know Well
Posted: 7/15/07 at 4:58amYeah, I would be more comfortable singing in front of 100 people I don't know than 5 I do know.
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#4re: Singing For People You Know Well
Posted: 7/15/07 at 6:58am
I'm also a bit funny about this. Give me an actual audience and I'm away, singing my face off. But put me in my house with one or two housemates kicking around, and I clam up. As one of my housemates is unemployed, this has put a MASSIVE dampener on my singing lately and I bloody well hope he gets a job soon. XP
#5re: Singing For People You Know Well
Posted: 7/15/07 at 7:08am
Cruel, a good way to sing for the people you're close with while offering a disclaimer of what they are about to experience might be to sing The Dark I Know Well. 
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#6re: Singing For People You Know Well
Posted: 7/15/07 at 7:39pmI'm not a performer by any stretch, so I'm actually the EXACT opposite - I will ONLY dare to sing in front of people who I know VERY well (my parents, Caitie - lucky, lucky Caitie). I won't sing in front of my students or most friends at all - I only subject those I really love to my warbling :)
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#7re: Singing For People You Know Well
Posted: 7/15/07 at 8:06pm
I'm really shy in general, but for some reason I would rather sing in front of a complete stranger than someone I know really well.
I actually sang in front of a bunch of people I knew well, once, but they were all singing at various times, too, so it wasn't so bad.
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Updated On: 7/15/07 at 08:06 PM
#8re: Singing For People You Know Well
Posted: 7/15/07 at 8:35pmI feel the same way. I have no problem singing onstage infront of an audience, but I'd never just sing in my living room to my parents. It's probably because criticism is harder to take from someone who you care about, and you're more worried about what they'd think.
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