Today, I attended a musical. A new song was played, and I thought I'd heard it before because it sounded strangely familiar. I sang along quietly as the song progressed, positive I knew it. Anticipating the next chorus, I belted out the lyrics with all my heart. It was instrumental. 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, I auditioned for the musical at my school. Before I sang my song, I gave my music to the director. She said "Oh, I love this song!". After I sang it, she told me, "It's okay, I still like the song." FML
Today, I was at a band concert with 500 other people. The song they were performing stopped, and I loved it so much I stood up and clapped. Everyone stared, while I slowly realized the song wasn't over. FML
Today, I was listening to music with headphones in my usually quiet class. At one point I really got into the song so I just quietly sang along because why not. Turns out by the end of the song I was singing at full volume, almost yelling, and my friend stopped me to say that. The entire back row was laughing. 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 friend's birthday party in a packed karaoke bar/restaurant and I drunkenly agreed to sing. I picked a song I thought I knew by heart, only to realize halfway through that the lyrics on the screen were not at all what I thought they were. My brain went for a smoke break or something, and I turned into a rambling mess. The crowd actually booed. 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, thinking I was alone in a public bathroom, I started singing the words to my favorite song. A minute later that I heard a toilet flush, so I just sat there petrified. The other person sarcastically picked up the singing from where I left off. FML
Today, out of pure boredom, I decided to listen to the soundtrack from a musical. When I got to the love song, I thought about my anxiety and where I stood with this one guy, and ended up crying to myself. The musical was Jesus Christ Superstar. FML
Today, I gathered the courage to sing karaoke after saying no for years. The lyrics screen froze halfway through the song, and everyone expected me to keep going from memory since I picked it. It turns out I only knew the chorus. I hummed for an entire verse as bemused strangers politely clapped along. FML
Today, I was singing the National Anthem at a school game and totally forgot the words. So I kept singing the same two lines over and over. FML
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needleinmypants_fml 3
YDI loser. people paid to hear them play not to hear you fail.
Timmo_fml 2
Well, I guess that's one way to audition!
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Comments (311)
QwertyMcNugget 0
Ohhh the magic and wonder of musical theatre! <3
quite_bored 9
Damn, show's over. Curse you traffic!
HeaRTs_Girl 0
To all the Grammar Nazis: *hugs!* I know I'm late for that whole conversation, but I truly thank you for correcting people on their atrocious spelling. Jokingly or otherwise, it's a damn good thing. Maybe I'm biased because I'm an English major, but still, keep up the good fight. ^_^
5t3ff1k4h 47
If you're biased, so are the rest of us. Welcome aboard. *I will not admit that I double checked to make sure you typed everything correctly. Thank god there's someone else out there who can spell!
ohthebloodygore 16
ur both idiots gosh who cares how we type?!??! dam grammer nazis
BlargHonk 0
You didn't go to a musical to sing along, asshole. You go to enjoy the show. Plus, think about all the people around you. They came to watch the show, not listen to you disrupt the show.
lostfaithinpppl 19
^ This YDI!
blahzz 4
Are you gonna go to a play, jump up, and start acting?
tacobird123 7
Lol
HeaRTs_Girl 0
To 196: no worries about my spelling, I've actually had teachers ask me how to spell things on a number of occasions. And I am very proud to boast about that.
5t3ff1k4h 47
Impressive, I must say! By the way, are you on a phone of some sort? I almost didn't see your reply, since it wasn't in the original thread.
ladyvader401 5
While I'll agree that it was probably embarrassing as hell, I've gotta go with YDI on this one. Like others have said, people paid to hear the people on stage do the singing. I'm kind of a theatre nerd, and one of my biggest pet peeves is people who talk (or sing, I guess, though I've never experienced that one myself) during shows. Like Shepherd said: "You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater." (Please, someone get that...)
5t3ff1k4h 47
It sounds familiar, but I can't place it. Damn.
elmorous 0
it bugs the hell out of me when some egotistical prick thinks everyone wants to hear their voice instead of those everyone paid to hear. save it for karaoke
sk8erd 15
pretty awkward we've all had those moments