Does anyone hate hearing themselves sing?- Page 3

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 9:49am

I have to record my rehearsal sessions with my musical director for my up-coming cabaret show (look for information as the time draws closer!LOL)....when I'm home singing along - it is difficult to listen to. I've never understood what it is that people like about my voice - I mean, I think its a nice, average voice - but I used to get a lot of praise on it all the time also...I guess no one really loves their own voice, do they?

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 9:51am

I like my own voice most of the time when I'm performing - but then when I listen to a recording of the same performance, I find a million things wrong with it.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 9:54am

Oh God, I feel so much better now I also get upset because I have a massive break between my head and chest voices and while I'm singing, I am always thinking too much. I concentrate not on the song, but on what register I'm using and where I can comfortably switch. Plus, my head voice is a lot weaker so when I switch into it, it sounds like utter crap, at least to me. But then people tell me I sound amazing. I don't understand it.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 9:58am

It's pretty clear that we can't be objective about our own voices. Even my Broadway diva friend thinks I have one of the best voices she's ever heard! But I still can find a billion things wrong with it myself.

[BalletGirl85]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 10:02am

I TOTALLY hate it!!! When I sing in my room I think "Oooh I sound GOOD!" but then I record myself and I'm like UGH why do I sound like that? I recorded "Mama a Rainbow" for this funeral home as a request to play at someone's funeral and it was a really high soprano version (probably because the backing they had to me was a man's backing, I had been singing along to the little boy on the Broadway Kids which is more my range haha) so I recorded it in my soprano which I never use and I HATE and everyone was like "Oh my GOD, your soprano is awesome!" and I'm like...no. It's not.

I also hate listening to myself on answering machines. I have a really high pitched voice and in my head I don't sound THAT high pitched...but if you call my voice mail...I sound like a Munchkin on crack and I honestly can't deal with it, lol. I think I hate listening to my speaking voice more than I hate listening to myself sing... :-p

I'm very critical of everything I do, performance wise. I'm a perfectionist and when it comes to even doing a hand motion, I have to make it perfect and do it the same every time, etc. If I watched a video of myself dance - forget it. I'd come up with six pages of notes on my technique and how THAT leg should be extended more, and what the heck was I thinking when I did THAT, and blah blah. Being overly critical definitely isn't always a good thing, haha.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 10:06am

I can't STAND my speaking voice on tape!!!

[StrStruckDreamr9]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 2:10pm

I am such a perfectionist that when I listen to myself sing all I hear is the things that I did wrong! I also got very confused the first time I recorded a song and listened to it because I didn't know that that was what I sounded like to other people. I thought that it was terrible, but everyone else was telling me how wonderful I was. Weird thing, listening to yourself...

Posted: 8/10/04 at 2:12pm

When I sing, I think I sing well, but any type of recording, whether on an answering machine or on video, i'm just like "god...do i really sound like that?"

[BroadwayMonkey]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 4:05pm

Only when I have headphones on, cause I can't hear myself.....or when I'm singing POTO. I can't compare.

[Thoroughly Modern Cara]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 4:10pm

I'm not a performer so it doesn't really matter but I cannot stand listening to my speaking voice!! It's sooo much prettier in my head and it kills me to see and hear myself on camera or on my voicemail! Updated On: 8/10/04 at 04:10 PM

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 8/10/04 at 4:12pm

yes. Love musical theatre but can hardly sing, even w/ voice lessons. Alas. Ah, destined to be a character actress. I like those roles better anyay!

[NoDayButToday2]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 12:22am

hmmmm when im singing solo with few people watching me i dont care unless its out doors which then it sounds terrible to me and thats probably because it IS terrible... i thrive on the acoustics that rooms provide... as for my musical theatre... ive been an ensemble member the whole time and i absolutely love it... it comforts me knowing that all eyes are not on me, but on many other people as well, and i usually dont have a mic, so its okay if i have a few of those moments hoever i loathe watching myself on tape at a distance where you can see my facial expression, i look so fake sometimes its not even funny... otherwise i dont mind

[venticelli]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 12:46am

Matt G is the man! I loathe (using that word here) the sound of my own voice, but others say it's a very good voice. Maybe this is just some sort of mental thing we all do...hell I'm being too positive - my dog attacked me once when I tried to sing Stars - I admit it damn it!