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
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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, I went to a karaoke bar that my girlfriend works at. I'm a halfway decent singer, so I picked out a song we both liked and decided to give it a go. Halfway through the song I sneezed, tripped, fell off the stage and knocked myself out in front of my girlfriend and fifty bar patrons. FML
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
Today, I had my first concert and was really anxious about screwing up my performance. Good news: I played fine. Bad news: as I walked off the stage, I tripped over my own feet, face-planted the floor, and busted my nose open. 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 was performing for a fairly large crowd with my band. I decided it would look cool to stand on one of the speakers and sing from there. It did look pretty cool for a bit until I tried to step off and fell face-first on the floor mid-song. 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 auditioning for a talent show. I asked my girlfriend if I could sing to her before I went. She said sure. Thirty seconds in, she got up and mumbled, "You're only going to embarrass yourself." 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, 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
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Top comments
yogima 6
Screw that! You actually got onstage and started singing. I'd say that's making progress! Congrats, I wish you the best of luck.
Demonfish 14
I'm sorry OP, that really sucks :( Perhaps starting small would be a better idea, sing to your family, then to your friends, and work your way up, until you've joined a band or something :)
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Comments (97)
CaptNomNom 17
Don't worry! I'm as bad! Imagine them naked! Lolol
Posthuman 26
Boner alert! He really pictured them naked...
melody309 35
Except OP is a woman ...
Posthuman 26
It was a song reference
hatesfate 6
Still doesn't give her a penis.
emh86 14
Ohhhh dear, the therapists are arguing. Who do we vent to now..?
Sam38_H 4
It really was a knock out performance
yenidewi 11
hahhahahahhaha ....
Bliss391 7
Well good for you!!! You actually got up on stage and tried, And that's hard to do. I know you didn't have the outcome that you would have hoped for, but a lot of people wouldn't even have the courage to get up there and start singing in the first place.
doglover100 29
At least you got up on stage and tried.
Cairo_Sanchez 8
So you made some progress in going on stage and performing half a song, that's actually good. No one overcomes that sort of thing in one fail swoop.
brierpoop 4
aww, OP. social anxiety sucks. I understand how much it sucks :/ don't go back to that therapist.
doodlecloud 27
Well it sucks that you fainted and maybe throwing yourself in the deep end wasn't the best idea...but hey - you sang half a song on stage - that's brilliant! It's more than I could do. Be proud of yourself! Hopefully this is a slightly unorthodox beginning to you getting over your fears. If you managed to get up their and sing maybe just talking to someone else won't seem as scary compared, no?
JasmineKyriu 6
You did well getting up on stage. I know how it feels I have the same phobia.