Today, after spending about 5 grand on my home studio over the past year, I realized I have no musical talent whatsoever. FML
Collection
Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, after I spent 3 months secretly learning guitar so I could surprise everyone at a family barbecue, the moment finally came. I sat down, took a deep breath, and realized I'd practiced every song with a capo I forgot to bring, as well as my tuner. Everything sounded terrible. My uncle asked if I was improvising Free Jazz. FML
Today, I spent 3 hours in my home recording studio. I was recording vocals and was trying to hit a very hard series of notes. I nailed it after 2 hours and listened. You can hear the vocals, but the EQ settings were tweaked in just the right way where you can hear my dog licking his nuts. FML
Today, I learned how to play "Happy Birthday" on the guitar, just to have my friend tell me that my voice sucks, and that I needed to stop immediately. FML
Today, and for my entire childhood, my parents made me play the piano until I gave in and just learned to enjoy it somehow. Now, I actually have an opportunity to play professionally, and what did my parents say? “Don’t bother, musicians hardly ever make good money. Get a real job instead.” FML
Today, months after buying my first bass guitar and taking bass lessons using my own money, I realized that my parents refused to buy me an instrument, claiming that I sucked at it. What actually happened is that they didn't feel like paying for some "teenage bullshit." FML
Today, I started recording my piano exam pieces to submit, and I was proud at my interpretation that I spent time trying to make it sound good. That was until my tutor walked in and said I had "shit rhythm and ass intonation." My mom was there. FML
Today, I forgot to tune my guitar pre-performance. Surprising, because it was in tune when I frantically did it by ear backstage. Too bad two of the six strings snapped, smacking the drummer in the face. FML
Today, my roommate eavesdropped on me singing. When I realized he was there, he said I was "fucking incredible" and asked me to do another song. There's just one issue: I only sing well when I'm alone. The result was predictably bad. If it was possible to literally die of embarrassment, I wouldn't be writing this. FML
Today, I woke up to find my home studio cleared of most of my music gear. Apparently, my brother went on a Tinder date with a stranger late at night, and decided it to bring her to my place's guest room since my house "was closer." I'd been building that studio for over 10 years. FML
Today, after entering a conservatory of music, I've worked really hard on my academic subjects to past through the exam, so my major is pretty weak. After practising 6 hours a day for three weeks, my teacher asked me to change my major and said I'm the worst student she's ever seen. And there‘s nowhere I can go. FML
Feel like sharing it with the other FML users?
Thanks, your FML was submitted, and will appear in the moderation queue soon!
Top comments
Felifulify 4
That's why u should've given it a long thought before u actually spend 5k on... Anything, really...
emac123 3
Learn the equipment and make money recording other people
Add a comment · Reply to
You must be logged in to be able to post comments!
Comments (176)
groupleader 7
Well Lady Gaga, maybe instead you should have spent 10k on lessons first.
thiscrazything 1
Now you can turn it into a home theater, and enjoy other people's talent.
cornielious 1
Hey! Use all the money you spent as motivation to learn! Dont give up and let it go to wast.
andrewmemoirs 2
that's what you get for being a moron. do us musicians a favor and give it to someone who actually knows how to use it.
ImaginaryFoe 1
Why? Why would you invest a load of money into something like that if you didn't have a large talent or passion? Even really gifted musicians don't all have home studios and they still enjoy their art. What a useless expenditure. You could've used that money for lessons and rented studio time if you really felt a need to make an album.
EmptyTankOfLuck 0
Can i come over and use it to record :D?
SngFrDaMmnt 0
Fail.
I_Punch_Babies 7
5k wouldve been much better spent on a big screen tv
LSS_fml 18
Or a holiday!
cleio81 5
Two words, Auto Tune.
titzenpitzer 9
I wonder what kind of things you have in your studio? You can always let other people use it and make lots of profit so after some time (maybe a lot) you can earn it back. That, and the memories about the crazy nights with the hookers and the cocaine and champagne and ...