Weird things you like to do to songs
Weird things you like to do to songs
Weird things you like to do to songs#1
Posted: 11/18/07 at 7:41pm
This has triggered inside me ever since I heard Laura Bell Bundy's Celine Dion imitation.
Do you like to sing songs in the style of a certain artist? Do you enjoy changing lyrics to something dirty? Or anything else I may not have mentioned.
Here are my picks.
I enjoy singing the first solo of Hear My Song in the style of (you guessed it) Celine Dion.
I enjoy changing the line from "But then the earthquake hits" to "But then the condom splits."
Anyone else?
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#2
Posted: 11/18/07 at 7:48pm
Okay, this is a really bizarre thread, and you're probably kidding, but I'm bored so I'll humor you.
Today I was bored and reading about the strike and listening to my Legally Blonde CD so I tweaked the lyrics to Ireland reprise a little.
"Those stagehands fear nothing and no one/they'll keep fighting till everyone's dead/I'm not sure where this metaphor's goin'/I just felt like it had to be said/I've got tickets and now they're in danger/something I would have never dreamed of/But I'll go out there and see Spring Awakening/the show about date rape and love."
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#2
Posted: 11/18/07 at 7:48pmThe title of this thread REALLY doesn't make me think of Celine Dion. Although it does bring back awkward memories of my boyfriend freshman year of college and how he always wanted to have Nirvana playing while we... held hands.
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#3
Posted: 11/18/07 at 8:28pmUm, I'm not kidding. I really wanna know if anyone enjoys imitating certain voices while...oh, forget it.
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#4
Posted: 11/18/07 at 8:31pmthe first thing that came to my mind was how sometimes i'll sing things in a carol channing voice
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
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re: Weird things you like to do to songs#5
Posted: 11/18/07 at 8:35pmI like to sing showtunes as Wing, especially Oklahoma.
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#6
Posted: 11/18/07 at 8:40pmI like to give my friends music to sing but ill switch the gender of every role in the song, most of them wont notice AT ALL.
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#7
Posted: 11/18/07 at 8:44pmSinging like Carol Channing has saved my life on more than one occasion.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#8
Posted: 11/18/07 at 8:47pmI sing some songs as Merman. It adds a whole other level to them.
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#9
Posted: 11/18/07 at 8:49pmI like to take songs out for quiet strolls in the park at about three in the morning. Then we go get a bite to eat at Yoshinoya. People tell me it's weird to do that to a song, but I really don't see anything wrong with it. The songs never complain.
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#10
Posted: 11/18/07 at 9:16pmI sing nearly everything as Axl Rose. I'm not joking. It's actually really hard to emulate!
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#11
Posted: 11/18/07 at 9:26pm
The only thing I do is sing songs like Jennifer Holliday.
Take Rose's Turn, for example:
"Cur-ur-ur-ur-tain up-uh
Liyiyiyiyiyight the lights-uh
Play it-uh boys!
Yew etha got it-uh
O' yah ain't-uh
And boyoyoyoys I gawt it-uh"
It's very important to grind and growl a lot of words and you have to add an enthusiastic "uh" at the end of phrases like you're letting out all of your remaining air supply.
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#12
Posted: 11/18/07 at 9:41pm
I like to sing like a big gospel woman. It's also really fun to sing just like Chita Rivera does in "Chicago", especially "La Vie Boheme".
Lak Darthy and Tatooh
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re: Weird things you like to do to songs#13
Posted: 11/18/07 at 9:46pm
I like to randomly break into song as Liza or Cher......friends love it, seriously.
Singing like Jennifer Holliday is fun to do too.
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#14
Posted: 11/18/07 at 9:46pm
I like to take songs behind the middle school and get them pregnant.
(c. Tina Fey)
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#15
Posted: 11/18/07 at 9:53pm
I'm always changing the lyrics to songs.
Patti LuPone:
Don't cry for me Ronald Reagan
The truth is I never liked you
"Bedtime for Bonzo"
was a fiasco
I'm so much hipper
Unlike the gipper
Stand-by Joined: 5/20/07
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#16
Posted: 11/18/07 at 11:08pmI like to "black/ghetto" songs up tremendously. I get majority of my inspiration from Jennifer Holiday and J Hud. I mainly attempt Rodgers and Hammerstein or Sondheim (which isnt that easy to do). Also I like to add some Mariah Carey runs throughout alot of songs...sort of like Shoshana Bean does...gotta love her
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#17
Posted: 11/19/07 at 5:49amI like singing American Pie as Cher
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#18
Posted: 11/19/07 at 6:07am
sometimes my best friend and i pick a durt and sing it as liza and barbara. thats always fun.
oh and in legally blonde i alwas sing "..it can't come right out and say bride. can't look like a desperate whore, like im waiting for it.."
the little things amuse me.
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#19
Posted: 11/19/07 at 7:36am
ok, this is really weird, but I love to role play with my songs.
Sometimes we dress up as cops and robbers.
I also enjoy a little bondage with my songs. Nothing extreme, just maybe cuffs and facemasks.
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#20
Posted: 11/19/07 at 10:47am
I just remembered. I enjoy singing the chorus of Eddie's Teddy reggae style.
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#21
Posted: 11/20/07 at 2:51pm
I recently overheard one of my students saying that it's funny to sing the song "Fever," but change the word "fever" to "wiener."
I'm very ashamed to admit that I found this comical, but I did.
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#22
Posted: 11/20/07 at 5:56pm
My friend and I once decided to dress up as the characters and act out and film our peformance (we were lip-syncing). It was dumb and ridiculous to anyone else but it kept up entertained for a good 2 hours. 
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#23
Posted: 11/20/07 at 6:24pm
I also have an impecable Colm Wilkinson impression that I like to give to songs. I have a special bit I like to do called "Colm Wilkinson sings The Beatles Catalogue"
Yeshturday...auwl my tchrubuls (reaching up into his high voice) seemed saaaaoh... (dramaticly soft) faur away
Shomething in the waayyyy shhe moooovzzz
Let it beeeaaah!
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
Stand-by Joined: 3/22/06
re: Weird things you like to do to songs#24
Posted: 11/20/07 at 9:56pm
MrSweet-- My sister and I also like to sing songs as Colm Wilkinson... Not necessarily Broadway songs, either. Usually Kelly Clarkson or Cher songs, and if we're feeling especially creative, we'll toss in some James Blunt.
We get bored a lot.
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