Today, I overcame my stage fright and got up in front of a café audience with my acoustic guitar to sing a few of my songs. Some asshat kept yelling stuff like "NEEDS MORE COWBELL!" and "FREEBIRD!", which made me lose my nerve and flee. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, to help me get over my crippling social anxiety, my therapist encouraged me to sing in front of a crowd, since I actually have a fine singing voice. I ended up fainting onstage, mid-song. FML
Today, I worked up the courage to sing at an open mic night. I lost my cool halfway through because all I could hear was laughter. FML
Today, during an important music audition, I fudged everything up and forgot half the lyrics of the song I was performing, so I just sort of tailed off into embarrassed silence on stage. It was an original song, I wrote the lyrics myself. All the lady could say was, "Good luck next year, dear." FML
Today, at a talent show, my band got booed before we even started playing. FML
Today, I was singing and playing keyboards with my band on stage at a club. A drunken chick from the crowd tried to climb up onto the stage in her heels, fell, and grabbed the back of my mic stand to catch herself. And busted me in the mouth with my own microphone. Then she requested a song. FML
Today, my band got booed off stage. FML
Today, while I was singing a song with my guitar at a college open mic, my eyes started to burn, causing me to tear up and stop playing. Everyone in the audience thought I'd actually started to cry mid-performance. I ended up having to leave the stage teary-eyed and embarrassed myself in front of everyone. FML
Today, I went to see one of my favorite bands. When they started playing my favorite song I whipped out my video camera and sang along. As I was reviewing the video later, I realized that I couldn't even hear the band over my horrible singing. FML
Today, I was at a local talent show and during a piano performance I had to go to the bathroom. I sang along in the bathroom but was unaware how loud I was until I walked out and everyone started applauding me while the pianist was still playing. FML
Today, some idiot kid teased and taunted me for weeping on my "already bad performance", recording it on his phone threatening to put it on social media. I was singing and playing the guitar, in front of my childhood sweetheart, and supposedly soon-to-be wife's grave. It was our song. I do this every year on this day. FML
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Top comments
relaxeazy 24
Aww man :( keep it up bro you'll get there in the end! Just concentrate on you not anyone else
Dodge4x4Ram 46
Get back on the horse, it gets easier with time.
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Comments (85)
Reaper350 7
Keep it up and don't stop playing.
RogueWarrior869 23
Sorry to hear you had to deal with a jerk like that. But you should be very proud of yourself for working past your fear and getting on stage! Getting past any fear is very difficult and definitely something you should hold your head up high about.
elfpower 4
I applaud you for your courage and music taste. Anyway, it gets easier every time. Just be patient with yourself and ignore idiots.
JDCH_99 10
Pros deal with it too. YouTube is full of videos where an on-stage performer gives some moron in the audience shit for acting like an ass.
LedBasedPaint 8
I got a fever, and the only cure is, more cowbell!
evolute72113 9
NEEDS MORE COWBELL!
IIM_SiCK 6
Everything needs more cowbell!
JudgeComrade 17
I didn't know people in the US called people asshats.
aliciagentry 8
Quoting snl lol sorry for your luck. :/
Folly_fml 12
So.... Was there any cowbell to begin with? If not, I can understand his frustration.