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You know, one of the things that really gets on my nerves is people that sing along to songs. Maybe because nine times out of ten they can´t sing worth a fuck. Does this get on your nerves? Are you a sing along type?

I made a thread like this a few years ago because my friend was driving me up the wall with his singing Evanescence songs in the car. Now my niece is a pretty famous singer here in town but, unfortunately, her two younger sisters and brother think it runs in the family and sing too. SHIT.

I sing along a lot of the time, actually, but I'm not half-bad. My falsetto is off, so the high notes make me sound like a breathy little girl. I have a great ear for music in general, though.

On the other hand, my friend is entirely tone-deaf, and he likes to sing along with stuff, which can get annoying when I'm in the car with him.

Do what I do: only in the car, and no one is riding with you.

I dont often sing along. I'm definitely not a bad singer, as singing is half my job.
When I do sing along, it's usually when I'm alone, in a "rock out :edgarrock: " mood, or if its joking around.

I once went through the halls of high school singing "You Light Up My Life" as a gag.

I hate it when people sing. I can just barely stand my girlfriend's singing. Like Star Man, I only sing alone in the car.

Nope, I've never been good with singing so I don't do it. Anyone who does I want to kill as well.

I hate that, too. I just want to enjoy the song, not your terrible rendition of it.

That reminds me that my sister has to sing along with every damn song she listens to while doing anything. She sounds like some puberty stricken thirteen year old, admits to it, but keeps singing anyways. Makes me want to duct tape her mouth shut.

I rarely sing along with songs, but if tempted to, ensure that no one can hear me. It's common sense.

Is there something about sisters and bad singing that go hand in hand? My little sister loves to sing. Unfortunately, she doesn't realize that she sucks at singing and none of the church people will tell her otherwise. She will blare her country/christian/pop music and sing to it on her kareoke machine. I even recorded her lame version of "Genie in a Bottle" and made her listen to it. She just walked away and she's in denial. She wants to major in music and become a singer after she finishes her community college degree in Education.

I don't like it when people sing to songs b/c I buy a CD for the original singer. I rarely sing to songs b/c I can only harmonize in alto and not sing well by myself in my opinion. I only sing if I'm alone or trying to prove to people on-line that I can not sing.

If I hear a song with an instrument fancy, my fingers tend to kinda twitch/move as if I were playing it. This is the case in points where I have no idea how to use the instrument and wave my finger like a metronome, or I actually pluck my fingers like I'm legitimately playing it. I'll mumble a song under my breath if it's real catchy or whistle it. But ONLY if I'm on my own.

I actually don't mind my friends singing along, if not only because it usually ends up being pretty hilarious. Most of them aren't too bad at it though, and a couple have even been in choir. I personally am not a horrible singer, but I never know the lyrics and even if I did I'd be too embarrassed to sing along.

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as a musician my self (piano) people have different talents here and there for art music or what ever but to tell them you suck or just stop it that's pretty much makes them fell bad about them self and might even stop doing it with a lot of practice and determinations anything is possible

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also pays to be nice to people

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even more when the persone is your wife or girlfriend

Twice ever, I got involved in a three-headed singing game (the one from "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"). It was awful, but freaking hilarious.

But other than that, I don't know many people who sing when they can't. Actually, I don't know many people that sing along to stuff that's playing other than my brother, who's singing is tolerable though the stuff he's listening to anyway sometimes isn't.

I love to sing along to songs that I like. But I don't lie to myself and think that I am a good singer, which is why the only time I do any singing is when I am alone in my car, with the volume up high enough that I can't hear myself. Because I don't really enjoy listening to my bad singing either.

There was a little girl in my son's church choir who was so very tone deaf, it was embarrassing. Of course she had no idea, because if she did, she wouldn't be tone deaf, right? So she always sang as loudly as she could and usually ended up drowning everyone out. The choir director started placing her in the back of the group, but you could still hear her over everyone else.

What a tough situation to be in.

The only time I feel it is appropriate to sing along is either when I'm with someone or someones who I know don't mind or when I'm alone. How young are the other two nieces? Depending upon the age, it makes perfect sense for them to mimic their older sister. That's how I started singing along to music. My dad and sister did so. Since one person does it and no one objects, your nieces are undoubtedly presuming it to be okay. This is especially true if they don't know that they're bad singers.

What I find annoying is when people, like my brother, turn on the radio and then do nothing but talk. If a song comes on the radio that I either like or haven't heard before, I usually can't tell what the lyrics are and sometimes even what all instruments are being used...

LOL, amen about the wife/girlfriend thing. I do agree that telling people to stop or that they suck might hinder what could possibly become better with practice, but my little sister has been practicing since she could talk and has been practicing profesionally since she was in 6th grade (almost 8 years). However, she's like the rest of my family and we don't have voices that sound good when sung. There are just some voices, where if they're not harmonized/blended with other voices, they don't sound good...no matter how much the person practices.

I only sing along with my mom in the car. Never have I encountered a friend who sang in the car though. And I only sing when I'm alone. But I would imagine that it would be very annoying.

My sister drives me out of my fucking mind when she just bursts into song out of the blue. She always sings extremely loud, like she wants everyone to hear it, and her voice has grown to be aggravating. She can sing okay, I guess. Her voice might sound better/worse to someone who isn't used to hearing it all the time. My least favorite is when she starts singing Snake Eater (yes, SNAKE EATER) out of the blue. What kind of 22 year old black woman just starts singing Snake Eater out of the blue. Usually I go and do something to stop her like slap her on the face... Lightly. Sometimes that just makes it worse, though.

Almost everyone I know does it, and it annoys the hell out of me. And a lot of them try and get me to sing along too, which doesn't work for several reasons. First, I want to hear the music, not myself. Second, I'm an awful singer, and I know it, and they don't want to hear me. Third, I can't understand 99% of lyrics as it is, so I wouldn't know what the hell to sing along with.

I took my girlfriend to a Colplay concert a few months back because she likes them. For some reason, during every song, half the crowd felt the need to sing along, drowning out Chris Martin's voice. Why the hell would people pay $30 (or whatever tickets were) if they're not gonna listen to the band they're paying to hear? I certainly didn't pay to hear a bunch of tone deaf people shouting as loud as they could. If I'm paying to hear someone, I'd want to hear them.

I never sing along in front of others, especially because I know it'll probably bug them. I haven't heard anyone sing along to a song on the radio which is fortunate, because I'm pretty sure it would bug me as well. I also think that I if I were to sing along to something, I would probably think I'm in tune, but I probably wouldn't be, and random note falters would add to the hilarity.

I second this. Sometimes, there's nothing quite so fun as turning up the music really high in the car and singing along, so that it feels like you're actually singing well, even though you're not.

This is a strictly me-and-my-car, alone, sort of thing.

Meh, I kinda gets on my nerves when someone starts to sing along or even hymm along, but if they are good at singing, then I don't really seem to care. However.............. I sign along when no one is around me. :(

I sing along when noone's around me, or when I'm sure that noone else can hear me.

well I'm not actually singing to the song but just doing some lyps-synch with the singer, so In that way I still can enjoy the music and I'm not bothering anyone else XD

but yeah I too don't really like other people singing along to a songs, especially if they whistle to the song >.<

I only do it when someone else is or if I have the volume as loud as it will go. Although I'm being a complete hypocrite, I get irritated occasionally when someone who really can't sing likes to add to the music.

I also do this, for me it's because there's no risk of someone hearing my crappy singing =s

I always sing along to songs. Sometimes I can sing the song really well, but others, I can't and I keep on going. Until my voice leaves. I Love singing. NOt as much as playing the piano or charango though.

I don't care if other people sing songs as long as they sound decent.

The only time my friends and I sing is when we do it for laughs and when no one else is around because all of know that we are horrible singers. Other then that, I have been blessed in never having to hear anyone else sing in public.

well maybe search another area be openminded persone and you will discover something new about your yourself
try to understand where you are most strong and most weak

It happens to be like this, unless the singing parts are beyond the crowd. For people to follow their songs they'll sing along. It's hard to imagine that they won't.

In my house I am the loudest and I guess most annoying singer. I love some of my music too much. My brother gets annoyed whenever I sing:

1) I randomly sing along to Mandarin sung songs (sometimes even Cantonese) when I don't have a clue what the words actually are.

2) I go into falsetto overkill (me doing Muse most likely)

3) my "power" singing, I am a fan of metal, I'm a baritone who can't hit many notes of some of my favourite singers so I hit some real high shrill awful sounding notes.

I just love singing but my voice is the shit, I can never really open it up, I always feel like I must sound like Mick McCarthy singing.

I don't sing alound, but I'll ususally mouth along with the words, and that's only when I actually know all the words to that song. I find it annoying when people think they can sing, but they're really terrible...

I don't like it when people sing along to songs. I have never heard anyone I know actually have a tolerable singing voice. It just ruins an otherwise good song.

Heh, I recall one time my friend kept trying to sing a Nightwish song and it was probably one of the worst musical experiences of my life.

I am a sing-a-long person though. My friends and I always turn on the radio and sing along to shitty pop songs, it's fun to do.

how ever sometimes is best to be honest to the 1 you love

I sing along to songs... ALOT. And as long as I have prior knowledge of you being able to sing or not, I don't mind at all if you sing. Although, I do cringe at the fact that some of my friends and family can't sing at all, but you learn to live with it after a while...

Although, there are sometimes where I just want to rip out my friend's stereo and tell them to shut the fuck up... One in particular. Everyone I know says that he can't sing at all, but the problem is in school, he's in concert choir (the good choir in my school)... So in a way, it just contradicts itself.

Bad singer + Good choir = Delusion that you can sing

I really don't know where I was going with that.

I usually don't mind when people sing along, unless I absolutely want to listen to the actual song.

I actually love singing along to songs, but I definitely will not sing when others are around, with the exception of my sisters on some occasions. This is because I don't feel comfortable singing around others, and I sound DEADLY. While I can hit some (not many) notes right, the main problem is my voice.

Heh heh. That's kind of like me. I think I'm okay with falsetto(especially in the song, I believe in a thing called love by the Darkness) and I suck with the higher notes of other songs when the singer is using the "power" singing. Uh...Jimmy Eat World- Pain comes to mind... "Takes my Pain away!"

It's often not that much of a problem, and when people are obviously tone deaf and try, it's good for a laugh. I think most people are so bad it's funny, not annoying. However, when I drive I make sure my car music selection is often too obscure for other people to sing along to.

I'ma sing along if I feel like singing. If that annoys you, you have two choices: if Im riding in your car, change the song on your radio.

If you're riding in my car, sit back and deal with it. In the words of George Carlin: "Can you HANDLE that?"

I enjoy singing to songs that I know and love. They're often power/heavy metal songs with epic choruses. It's fun to do and not necessarially serious. I don't have any complaints of someone singing a song unless it's a song I don't like. It's not like anyone really sings around me regardless so I have no qualms about it.

Apparently I'm kind of good at singing, but I don't sing along to stuff unless I'm alone or whoever I'm with doesn't mind or actually likes it(like my boyfriend XD). I'm especially careful because most of the songs I want to sing along to are in Japanese, and I know not everyone's into that.

At my school, there are only 2 choirs--advance choir and women's choir--my sister was in women's choir until her senior year. You have to audition to get into women's choir...if you're a female. However, men are automatically accepted into advance choir even if they sound horrible b/c they have so very few men.

When you train with a choir you work purely for that reason. I'm sure everyone wants to hit the right notes there'll be people who get a few notes wrong often there and then but it doesn't matter because it contributes to that wall of sound.

I don't know if it's that his voice sucks or he is hitting bum notes or whatever. I was in chorus for a short while but before I knew many who had been in a choir way back in primary school. There are many now at least a few years who aren't good at singing. Nothing wrong with chorus, but it hides your individual voice, and does not serve yourself to be your own singer.

I only hum to a song's tune and since I know I'm not that great I try to keep it down. The only time I'll actually sing to a song if I'm trying to piss off the people around me. With other people singing all I request is that they keep it down unless they're really really good then, maybe I'll think about it.

Actually I think it's ok if you sing along badly and off-key because that's most of the fun of it, as long as you know that you are the suck. I love butchering songs on the radio in my car, because I know I have a shitty ass singing voice but sometimes it's just hilarious to sing for the sake of singing.

It's the people who sing and THINK they're great and won't STOP it that bug me. You know the type, they either sing at an unbearably high pitch or just unknowingly overexaggerate the song, all the while thinking they're better than the original.

wtf why are you so grumpy live a little and sing songs!

Ahaha! No, I don't sing along to songs. I know I suck, so I don't even bother.

Sometimes my sisters will, and I want to SMACK them. It's one of the most obnoxious things in the world. Ninety-nine thousand times out of TEN, your voice will sound nothing like the singer's, and will, if even in-tune, take the original down with it.

IT BASICALLY JUST SUCKS, OKAY.


I'll sometimes sing along when I'm alone in the car, but after about five seconds, my own voice starts to annoy me and I stop. =(

I sing when nobody is around.

I have a pretty accurate sense of pitch, melody and cadence, but a shitty pair of vocal cords.