Ok I'm going to rant on here so warning there is going to be mild swearing and all that juicy stuff, but if you really don't care don't even bother starting the next sentence.
Ok, so in my show choir and we are practicing a few songs for an upcoming concert. To start off the show we will be singing a song called 'Hello Hello' and one of the lines that we sing is 'Tally-ho, Gero-ni-mo' and everyone is singing it correctly EXCEPT these two little seventh graders who purposely sing it incorrectly, instead of saying 'Geronimo' they say something along the lines of ger-onchi-no and it's really bothering the shit out of me. I think it's starting to become a habit to them now and it really worries/annoys me because they apparently get embarrassed easily so god forbid that they say that at the concert because I will not hesitate to rip out their vocal cords.
Next item on the agenda are people who join choir boasting about how good they sing and then once the time comes they get very quiet or refuse to sing. Like today for example, our teacher was showing us a video of the competition we might have when we compete and these two girls sitting next to me started blabbering on about some stupid shit and our teacher told them to be quiet, luckily it was towards the end of the video so they didn't miss much, she started to lecture them about it when another girl spoke and said that they should be concentrating on the video because they were obviously much more advanced than us and that they should think about what we need to fix. Her speech was much greater than the small summary I just gave you but that was basically what it was.
Let me just say here that those two girls barely even participate and can't even sing a note given by the teacher correctly and it's not just them most of the girls on the soprano side are very much like that. Sure I'll admit that they can sing certain things nicely but sometimes when we're told to sing a bit louder and then they go on the verge of screaming and hitting the note too sharply. And since we are in show choir and not concert choir we have to sing and dance so we must take our rehearsing seriously since it takes us longer to learn the routine in the short time that we have. I'm not saying that we can't have fun but once we start singing and the teacher is telling us how to sing it we have to be serious about it and we cannot be distracted.
My biggest pet peeve though is that they join show choir knowing that they have to dance and that they really have to exaggerate their facial expressions while performing but once we have a concert the ones who get embarrassed are put right in the front and then they get all shy and don't do very much correctly and then if they make the slightest mistake they get all giggly and they start talking to the person next to them right in the middle of the fucking song during a concert and I've experienced this first hand during a concert and in class. "This is so embarrassing" I heard one of them say next to me during class today. If it's as embarrassing as you say then why did you join again? This is your second year in it you should know by now what it's like. And yes, I know that people do get scared when performing front of others but why join choir when you know this about yourself? Even I still get a bit nervous when performing but I know that we've worked hard and that I have to show that so I let it all go and I give it my all.
Sorry this turned out to be so long but I really needed to let this out and Naomi kept nagging me about writing a new post so here it is.
Cheers!~
