Do you sing?

I love singing along to Taylor Swift. I have trouble deciding whether or not I should do my regular voice or my horrendous high-pitched voice to match Ms. Swift

I sometimes listen to Senses Fail and want to just take in the lyrics.. while other times I like to sing along.

I mostly rap along to stuff, though. Nas, Eminem, Bad Meets Evil, Hopsin, Lupe Fiasco, "Airplanes" and "Airplanes Pt. II" by B.o.B. ft. Hayley Williams, "Worldwide Choppers" by every damn rapper imaginable... I like rap a lot.

The only time I sang publicly was at Christmas last year, when I sang to the whole family a song I learned in Russian class. It was called Катьюша, I think. It's been a while, but it's a very popular song there, and I believe it is a wartime anthem.

 

...how do you like rap and Taylor Swift?

 

I can scream, though acoustically, it's quiet in a quiet place, and practically inaudible in a noisy place

 

Wow, lots of rap and metal love around here! Let me throw my hat into the Power Pop ring for a minute. I've been singing for about 12 years, starting with singing along to Green Day, Weezer, Alkaline Trio, and other pop punky type junk when I was in high school. Around that time I started learning how to play guitar (I already knew drums) and started writing/recording terrible songs in my basement.

Flash forward to now, I've learned piano and bass and am trying to be more like the Beatles and Brian Wilson and less like Blink 182 (to stick with alliteration). In college I was a finalist in the John Lennon Scholarship songwriting competition and have played the International Pop Overthrow festival a few times (well, two cities, only one year, but still!)

And this finally brings me to my half assed plug of my current band Sweet Diss and the Comebacks which can be heard at sweetdiss.com.

Any other bands around the TA forums?

 

B.o.B featuring Taylor Swift - Both of Us

That is all.

 

No, to the mercy of everyone.

 

I request that on the next podcast, please.

 

Hell yeah, I sing! In my car and in the shower! Would anyone wanna hear that? hell no!!!

 

Because I have a broad taste in music?

Sure, we could go with that. I listen to more than I sing to, including Brand New, Metallica (have to be in the mood, though), Megadeth (same as Metallica)...

I'm not sure. I listen to lots of different music. But the biggies are Eminem, Senses Fail, and Taylor Swift.

 

Yes I love to sing! I'm a tenor. I have sung opera , classical but my favourite singers to sing along with are Jon Anderson ( of Yes), Kate Bush, Kylie Minogue, Bruce Cockburn, Carrie Newcomer
My favorite music to sing to though is my own music compositions

 

I sang all my life. I am singing in a choir now, bass and some alt. We practically sing everything from Musical stuff over pop to rock and traditionals. I've also sung in a metal band and a German medieval band. And, funny fact: rapping helped my a lot with more fluent English speech. I learned dozens of songs, all the old heroes. Cypress Hill, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys and those. Wanted to rap along with Busta Rhymes but epically failed.

 

Unfortunately for those around me, yes, though our 4yo doesn't seem to mind.

I think you can hear me singing a bit on my SoundCloud page, thankfully there's nothing on there that hasn't been through a vocoder or some sort of distortion.

EDIT: Almost forgot Smule's Glee app - there are a few recordings of me, only slightly auto-tuned, out there. Seek them out at your own risk. (I am especially fond of my rendition of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, but for some reason my rendition of Sweet Transvestite was well received by teh interwebs.

 

Oh. Fine. Drelbs is singing Sweet Transvestite. Now I got pictures in my head.

 

My favorite part about that was downloading the song - "Would you like to buy one Sweet Transvestite for $0.99?"