seperis | sometimes, i really wonder

I've mentioned one of my things with music is the ability to sing along with no clear idea of what I'm saying. This happens a *lot*, especially with Duran Duran. Nevermind.

As I mentioned once,

svmadelyn sent along a group of depresing country songs. This one--at first--didn't sound all that depressing. IT's perky!

Then I was singing along--again, I have no idea what I'm singing, if I'm distracted, I'll literally not even remember singing--but somehow, my own voice penetrates my headphones on a really passionate part.

A Night to Remember.

I went to look it up to make sure I'd actually been cheerfully advocating fiery death by driving off a cliff.

She whispers in his ear and tells him that she knows
She throws the car in gear, plunging to the earth below
She whispers in his ear and tells him that she knows
She throws the car in gear, it blossoms like a fiery rose

This is not the first time. I still rememeber singing in public about how Alanis would go down in a theater while people blinked over at me. It took me up until the chorus to realize I was singing inappropriately in public.

I cannot be the only person this has happened to. No, this isn't a transparent plea or anything.

Nooooo, I've done it. Most recently with Pink's (or P!nk, or however she spells her name now) Fingers, in the car with my parents listening . . .

Ooh. Now I want to listen to that.

*makes note*

*raises hand shamefully* I've done it. many, many times.

We can have a support group. Talk about our feelings. Remind ourselves that not every day is Nine Inch Nails Singing Day.

*facepalm* I couldn't be singing the theme song to Sleeping Beauty or anything. IT's always something--not good to sing in front of people.

I once did The Waif's song "The Haircut" in a bus station. There is a verse about masturbation. it was a bad scene. I share this story so that you will know that your pain is shared.

Hi, my name is Megan, and I'm a bus station weirdo with an ipod (hi, Megan...)

*winces* oooh. You have my sympathy. God.

Okay, saddest story of public music--when slumberparty was in New York, me and

svmadelyn and

wrenlet and god, I am blanking on names saw some rats in teh subway chasing each other, so we assumed that they were in love. Then a third rat came and we all started singing Bizarre Love Triangle to the rats.

I swear, other subway people started singing with us. Our native guide slowly backed away from us and pretended she hadn't ever met us before.

No, no... we sang TAINTED LOVE, honey. \o/

And somebody on the platform definitely joined in, because none of the fangirls were carrying the bass line.

YES! THAT ONE!

And God yes. We totally had a sing-a-long at midnight in the subway. We rock so much.

Yes, definitely tainted love, and several someones. A very nice African-American gentleman with some sort of instrument (that he did not play, he just sang), and a few stragglers on the platform.

There were people like

veredus pretending not to know us, but I caught her singing too. I *did*.

oh, fen. <3

Ahahahahaha, yes. Especially when I was in my hiphop/r&b period and every single song was about sex. I particularly remember singing Another Level's 'Freak Me' at totally inappropriate times.

I still rememeber singing in public about how Alanis would go down in a theater while people blinked over at me.
:D:D And dude, which song is that?

ps: the 'Freak Me' lyrics.

"You Oughtta Know" Best version is the explicit.

Oooh, thanks. I've heard that song before but never really paid attention to the lyrics.

It's perkily depressing!

...I need to introduce you to Lowen & Navarro. *grins*

Who? *curious*

http://lownav.com/index.html

Their music page has mp3 clips: try How Mighty is the Silence and The Opposite of Everything off of All the Time in the World, and anything of Hogging the Covers or Broken Moon. (Pendulum is the classically "perky depressing" album from them--I might have a copy I could send you.)

So there was this Smallville vid - and I don't even watch the show - but there was this vid... for all I know, you were the one who recced it. Anyway. It was to Don'tcha. And that got stuck in my head. And really... not the sort of thing I should have been singing while walking along busy urban streets.

I want to see this vid. *thoughtful*

*hee* what are the lyrics.

talitha78 made it, I have recced it, and lo, it is awesome.

"Don'cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me, don'cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me..."

The verses may get more explicit, I just know that much from THE BEER COMMERCIALS. *beats head on desk* And it's by The Pussycat Dolls. The band Jared's girlfriend Sandy just tried out for on reality TV. *cannot believe this is the world*

here is the link, if you haven't found it yet.

I haven't, but a friend and coworker of mine once started singing along in the office we share with multiple other people. She was *way* embarrassed. *g*

Well. There's Green Day "Long View" - but that was deliberate, back when I was in high school, in groups. That pizza place probably hated us.

I've always been a bit worried I'll just casually start singing Liz Phair's "Flower" out loud.

Ha! I've randomly started singing Flower. While I was in the car with my father!. It's just so damn catchy.

Delurking to say, omg yes. I sing along to my ipod all the time, Kimya Dawson, Bloodhound Gang, no shame.

Also, I have no idea how my brain got rewired this way, but I sing NIN's Closer, without realising it, whenever I'm really happy & content. First noticed it back in 2001. I'd start humming, then singing, then realise I was repeating verses of an explicit song while doing stocktake at work, in hearing of customers & boss if he happened to walk by.

For four or five years I made semi-or-quadrennial trips from Texas to DC and back; on one trip, my younger sister woke up from sleeping in the passengers seat, stopped the CD, turned to look at me and said, "you're only allowed to sing along if you stop making up the words."

My little sister was singing "ain't nothing but mammals" today under her breath and failed to notice until I snickered at her, she said "...what?" and then realized what she had been doing. Twenty shades of red.

Had to comment again to add: I am the sort of person who will likely sing along without realizing it, but more often than not will realize it, grin, and sing louder. ...even if Alanis is going down on you in a theatre.

These are the actual lyrics to "Do You Love Me?"
http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/d/dirtydancing6465/doyouloveme246351.html

All my life, I thought he was singing:
I can masturbate,
(I can masturbate).
I can do the twist,
(I can do the twist).

And wondered off and on for years how he got that past the censors. *facepalm*

I've had to remind myself not to sing Cake at work. "Satan Is My Motor" probably isn't going to go over well when carrying groceries out to little old ladies' cars.

I had to gently prod one of my coworkers not to sing "Candyman" - the new Christina Aguilera one - also. So you're definitely not alone.

And it is so easy to take "where do your fingers go / when you sleep" the wrong way. Hehehe.

Yeah, I occasionally have little fits of giggling at that.

*raises hand*

Travis's "Peace the Fuck Out" loudly, in my office, when it came on the iPod hooked up to the computer speakers. I didn't notice what song it was, I swear!

*hides*

It's worse when you sing in a different language without knowing it.

I tend to start singing my vocal performance/NATS (http://www.nats.org) pieces rather than modern music. Probably because I had to memorize the four/six pages of lyrics. Most of them are in forgien languages which I don't actually speak, so I'm basically just singing in German/French/Italian phonetically without really knowing the words. God help me if any native speaker ever hears me sing in their language.

I find myself wandering around work singing songs about dying butterflies and love-lourn sheepherders without even knowing it. Actually, today it was the song about a whore. Sung in the first person. No wonder people just stare at me like I'm crazy.

I've done it to When I think about you I touch myself! I kid you not, and a beautiful south song called Marry me which has the line dont marry her f**k me! And that's just the ones I know I did!

Oh dear!

I almost never realize I'm singing along with the Buffy musical soundtrack until I get to the Parking Meter song and my co-worker cracks up.

One time at work we were having a slow-day-80s-fest and were totally busted by the poor library deliverer singing "Baby Got Back." And doing the little booty dance.

I cannot sing along to a song without knowing the lyrics, but I have found myself singing along with my personal music player without knowing it. (Specifically in college, when it was a Walkman rather than a CD player or MP3 player, and I was in the dorm computer lab and someone had to tell me I was singing "Birdhouse in Your Soul" out loud and it was getting on someone's nerves.)

Also, a friend who loves the Highlander soundtrack is in the habit of doing the bits where the songs are interspersed with dialogue from the movie, without really noticing he's doing it, and so had people get up and move away from him on the bus because he was going on about knowing where severed heads had gone.

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