Does anyone hate hearing themselves sing?- Page 2

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 1:48pm

I cant stand hearing myself sing.

[ponine24601]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 1:49pm

i can't stand watching/listening to myself. i am like my own worst enemy when it comes to my voice. i am always like 'i should have said it or sang it differently.'

Updated On: 8/8/04 at 01:49 PM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:04pm

I can't take listening or watching myself when I sing. Everyone else tells me how wonderful it is, but when I hear it, I don't understand what they're talking about. It's weird. Plus I'm overly critical as well, I'll get mad at the way I was standing or the way I did this and that and it just drives me crazy so I tend not to watch.

In seventh grade drama we had a project to critique our own performances on video and I ended up resting my head on my hand with a finger in my ear (I can't hear out of the other ear so I only needed to cover the one.) and picking out a spot on the wall looking toward the TV and not taking my eyes off that spot untill it was over. Then I turned in a three page report on everything that I felt I could do better the next time, without even having watched it.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 3:09pm

I absolutely hate hearing myself sing. When I'm singing (and it's not recorded), I think I sound great. But if I record myself, I say to myself "Wow, I really am terrible!". If I'm in a show, I refuse to watch the video of it, because I think I look and sound horrible. I always yell at myself for not singing differently, or doing different movements or things like that.

[kec]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 5:38pm

Add me to the list of those who hate listening to themselves sing. I am my own worst critic when it comes to my voice. I would tape any solos I did in church, mostly to send to my mother who lived in another state, and critiqued them before sending them on. I always found something wrong, even in a song where I happened to nail a high A flat.

A few years ago I was visiting Hershey PA, and was on a trolly tour of the town. Said tour included a sing along of various songs i.e. Bye Bye Blackbird and God Bless America. I gave it my all on the latter one. After the tour I drove up to the Hershey Hotel and parked. In the car next to me was the man I sat next to on the tour. He saw me and said, "Oh, it's the lady with the good voice" :blush: I didn't believe him, but it was nice of him to say.

[ForTheLoveOfLea]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 5:54pm

Me too. I never bothered recording myself because I am afraid of what I sound like. My teacher told me that no one really gets the real sound of their voice when they are singing but I am a perfectionist so I always manage to think of what I did wrong. I totally screwed up my vocal recital because I felt like I was horrible next to everyone else. That is what I think stems why people dont like how they sing. I think we compare ourselves to other people too much and we cant quite embrace our voice for what it is.

[Plum]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:04pm

One of the scariest experiences of my life was listening to all of my piano, viola, and voice recitals from ages 6 to about 12 because my dad was converting them all from Camcorder tapes to DVDs. I gave a helluva lot of concerts as a kid.

[kec]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:36pm

Gotta love the parents and their need to film everything when their kiddies were small . I seem to recall a movie of me in a Kindergarten May dance celebration somewhere...

[shira467]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 6:53pm

When I am singing sometimes I hear myself, and I think it sounds great. But recorded? I sound so nasal and gross and I wonder how people can say I should become a Cantor!

But if I'm belting above a D or something, I think it sounds like a dead cat wailing, a think line of voice. But someone else says it sounds full.

I've given up on singing -- that's why I'll go into advertising. I hope.

[Born2cthelightsofbway]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 7:09pm

I know what you mean! When I sing think of me from phantom and record it, i think it sounds terrible but when I played it for an agent they thought i sounded like an angel! I think its just that everyone has a little quirk like this!

[Phantess]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 7:44pm

I think I sound good as i'm singing or speaking, but listening back on the recordings. UG. I feel like I ruined the song and can't even bare to listen to it.

[Kelliexo90]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 8:16pm

I hate hearing myself on tape. Not only singing but talking. I heard myself on the news once(of course, they took the stupidest quote I had said and put it on the news *rolls eyes*) and I was like WHY DO I EVEN SPEAK?! I SOUND AWEFUL!! And I don't even bother listening to myself sing anymore, because I can be soo happy with a performance then hear myself and I'll cry because I think I sound so bad. So, I don't listen to myself sing anymore. I (like everyone else has said they do) critique every little thing I do.

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 8:28pm

Its just like when people are photographed, much of the time no one likes what they look like in pictures, but even more so with recordings.

btw: I hate hearing myself talk and sing, uggg.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 8/7/04 at 8:31pm

I am told I have an amazingly gifted voice, but very underused (only ever in one musical). I tried listening to myself, but couldn't stand it, so I stook to plays.

Sang again for college audition, got a scholarship, and now we will see what happens.

[timote316]

Posted: 8/9/04 at 6:04pm

I don't like seeing myself on camera for any reason lol, let alone singing. I don't think I can sing or act, but people always tell me otherwise. Maybe they are being nice lol, i dont know. Meh, if they are just being nice, its their fault that I keep going, because I'm going to continue to sing and act until I get told I'm bad lol.

People have also told me that I lack self-confidence lol, if that means anything.

[bythesword84]

Posted: 8/9/04 at 6:11pm

I hate hearing myself sing. I sound decent enough to myself when I'm actually singing but when I hear it played back to me its enough to make me never want to sing again. I can't be in the room when people are listening to a recording of me. Everyone says how amazing it sounds and I think to myself, you're hearing the same thing I am and I think it sounds awful.

[Plum]

Posted: 8/9/04 at 6:15pm

But is the "hearing yourself singing" experience really complete without seeing yourself in a frilly little dress at age 8?

My eyes are burning.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 8/9/04 at 6:23pm

I don't hate hearing myself sing but on recordings with bad quality I sound like a 5 year old. But regularly I sound more like I'm in my 20's so it's weird.

[TheaterGeek91]

Posted: 8/9/04 at 6:31pm

A few years ago, my family and I were all in a production of Annie with a community theatre, and I was Annie. Sometimes, they pop the tape in and make me watch it, but I have to leave the room during my solos. I like to pretend that I was at least a little bit good, and watching myself always seems to ruin my imagination... However, I really do believe that bad recording equipment makes you sound worse than you really are. At least I hope so!

[bronxboundexpress]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 12:19am

I love to hear myself sing! lol

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 12:20am

Yes, I do. And my name is Norbert Leo Butz.

[marebare]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 12:23am

Well hello there Norbert. I didn't know you read the boards.

[feinstein9]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 2:42am

> I sing like a pro, but i dance like a klutz.

i understand your feelings. unfortunatly, i am niether a sing nor a dancer, but i will leave you with this small token of wisdom: smile and act like you know what you're doing, and the audience will never notice. (directors and casting people are a different story... you can't win them all)

[bythesword84]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 3:05am

Norbert its about time you confessed. We've been wondering...

[KMF_NYC]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 9:43am

well, I joined this thread late, so I repeat what 95% of you said -- people tell me they love my voice and I hear it and cringe...