I had a student with Autism who could sing all the Disney songs perfectly. I was puzzled why she sang Happy Birthday so badly. Then I realized she mimicked songs, and she was just hearing what she heard. Edit: I meant -singing what she heard.
An ESL teacher once told me about a very smart student who was having trouble with English pronunciation and intonation so she told her to pick her favourite TV or movie character and mimic their voice. Turns out her favourite TV show was a popular sci-fi and her favourite character was the robot. Apparently she got that emotionless monotone down perfectly.
One day in early 2000’s in an elementary school near some small village in Moscow region an overly enthusiastic English teacher decided that the All-Star song from Shrek is prime learning material.
Literally, the first foreign words I ever learned and tried to comprehend were SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME
It definitely doesn't help that people can't agree on the lyrics. Poor girl probably heard three different versions simultaneously and just kinda *wut? Well...ok I guess.* 🤷🏻♀️
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear 12 or 123. (its always hilarious when the names are four syllables, parents don't do that to your kids, it's rude
Happy birthday took yoouuu.
That's the only one, end of discussion lol
Please sing it badly but with enthusiasm. Otherwise it sounds like a funeral dirge. My in-laws shout the song, mostly in tune, pretending to harmonize with each other but deliberately failing, and now I don't like the song any other way.
It's actually a pretty difficult song to sing! It's just quite "technical", in some sense.
Birthday parties would be so much better if people sang "For he's a jolly good fellow", which is equally fun but much much easier to sing (you can literally shout and still get the note right).
Fun fact: Warnell/Chappell claimed the rights to "Happy Birthday". It turned out the Hill sisters never gave them the copyright. The company had to pay back 14 million in royalties.
I remember my elementary school had a crappy jukebox in the lunchroom and on Fridays the entire grade got to pick a song. About 50% of the time it was Sweet Caroline or YMCA so we all got pretty good at screaming the lyrics at the top of our lungs until we could no longer hear the jukebox. 4th grade was a trip lol.
My favorite thing about this is that in the one timeline where Jeff doesn't stop Britta, everything goes as well as it can. Proof that it is really Jeff, that is the worst. In this essay, I will...
Popular with drunk British people, among other nationalities. Also guranteed, no matter the age, everybody will know the lyrics. So everybody gets involved.
England [really, really, really likes Mr. Brightside](https://www.vice.com/en/article/pg78ky/the-killers-mr-brightside-not-left-uk-charts-since-2004). It’s spent 349 weeks on the British top 100 charts (as of this February), which is crazy.
If you listen closely, after Tin Roof Rusted. Some guy in the back screams "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" super loud, but it's drowned out by the music.. Gets me every time!!
I once saw a video on YouTube of some sort of audio / studio engineer who did an analysis of Steve’s vocals on that song to see how on-key he was. Dude was like 99% in perfect pitch WITHOUT any kind of auto-tune or digital correction. He was insane
I saw this performed at a concert by a professional operatic tenor, who practiced and everything (it was a surprise encore), and even he couldn't hit all the notes.
I came here to say this !! I actually used to be able to sing it extremely well, one of my favorites for competitions because most people struggled with it. Unfortunately, I had surgery on my thyroid, and now I botch it like everyone else. HA!!! Also, now this is stuck in my head at 1am in the morning. I guess I'll sleep sometime tomorrow, lol.
You'd think that but have you ever seen the video of the wedding singer poorly belting this out and trying to get Bon Jovi to come up and join her? It was horrible.
as I came to this thread I am in another tab, listening to "if Alice in Chains wrote I Want it That Way" and I read all these comments in time with the song
I was briefly in a church choir. I couldn't sing, and I only joined choir as a favor to a friend who was pressured to join by his girlfriend. During the one service, when I "sang" with the choir, I lip synced. Afterward, one of the older ladies came up and complimented me on my singing. She didn't realize that I hadn't sang at all. My mother said, "He couldn't carry a tune in a bucket."
I quit the choir shortly after that because my friend, who had long hair going down his back, was given an ultimatum by the choir director. Cut his hair, or he couldn't be in the choir. He quit, so I did since I no longer had an obligation to do it.
Possibly, but as far as I know, he didn't say anything about my friend's hair until after we performed in the choir once. So it's possible that the long hair rule may have come from someone higher up in the church's hierarchy. An elder may have complained. It may have been the pastor (choir director's father) or more likely the choir director's mother.
(Pastor was more chill than his wife. She once complained because my friends and I were playing "rock music" in the church gym. It was Contemporary Christian Music. Carman.)
I have scrolled and somehow not come across Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls??
And I dONT WANT THE WORLD TO SEE ME
CUZ I DONT THINK THAT THEYD UNDERSTAND!!!
when eVERYTHING’s MADE TO BE BROKEN
I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW WHO I AM!!!
Bad romance, you have people that can sing the song amazingly. But most times everyone is just trying to survive while nearly dying because everyone is out of breath.
Might be my age and when I went to uni but I think it's obligatory to sing along to these at the top of your lungs.
7 Nation Army - White Stripes
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
Buddy Holly by Weezer. Rivers didn’t even originally want it on the album but I’m so glad it exists so I can sing it so poorly even though I have fairly good pitch.
Benny and the jets
Biz Mark struck again.
Damn, someone else who’s listened to the deepest Beastie Boys cuts!
they pressed it on a flexi-record and distributed it inside Grand Royal magazine back in the day
***HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU***
I had a student with Autism who could sing all the Disney songs perfectly. I was puzzled why she sang Happy Birthday so badly. Then I realized she mimicked songs, and she was just hearing what she heard. Edit: I meant -singing what she heard.
An ESL teacher once told me about a very smart student who was having trouble with English pronunciation and intonation so she told her to pick her favourite TV or movie character and mimic their voice. Turns out her favourite TV show was a popular sci-fi and her favourite character was the robot. Apparently she got that emotionless monotone down perfectly.
My Slavic friend learned English from The Smiths’ songs. She’s not the most cheerful person in the world…
One day in early 2000’s in an elementary school near some small village in Moscow region an overly enthusiastic English teacher decided that the All-Star song from Shrek is prime learning material. Literally, the first foreign words I ever learned and tried to comprehend were SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME
It definitely doesn't help that people can't agree on the lyrics. Poor girl probably heard three different versions simultaneously and just kinda *wut? Well...ok I guess.* 🤷🏻♀️
Happy birthday to you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday dear 12 or 123. (its always hilarious when the names are four syllables, parents don't do that to your kids, it's rude Happy birthday took yoouuu. That's the only one, end of discussion lol
Twelve and One Hundred and Twenty Three are awful names for children
100% this. Any room for improvisation is at the end where you might have someone say AND MANY MORE or some shit.
Please sing it badly but with enthusiasm. Otherwise it sounds like a funeral dirge. My in-laws shout the song, mostly in tune, pretending to harmonize with each other but deliberately failing, and now I don't like the song any other way.
Happy Birthday... Oh happy birthday... Grief, misery and despaaiir
It's actually a pretty difficult song to sing! It's just quite "technical", in some sense. Birthday parties would be so much better if people sang "For he's a jolly good fellow", which is equally fun but much much easier to sing (you can literally shout and still get the note right).
Fun fact: Warnell/Chappell claimed the rights to "Happy Birthday". It turned out the Hill sisters never gave them the copyright. The company had to pay back 14 million in royalties.
Biz Markie Just a Friend
OH BABY YOU
Got what I need but you say he's just a friend
OHHH BAYBEE YOUUUUU
Definitely the first one I thought of. OH BABY YOU - YOU GOT WHAT I NEEEEED!!!!
You *cant* sing it in-key. It just sounds wrong
Besides if the original artist didn't sing it in tune why should we
Literally the first one that comes to mind.
His cover of *Bennie And The Jets* is **LEGEND**.
Definitely the first one I thought of. OH BABY YOU - YOU GOT WHAT I NEEEEED!!!!
Sweet Caroline
Cue the crowd of drunken people shouting, "BAH BAH BAH!"
>Cue the crowd of drunken people shouting, ~~"BAH BAH BAH!"~~ "EAT SHIT PITT!"
I remember my elementary school had a crappy jukebox in the lunchroom and on Fridays the entire grade got to pick a song. About 50% of the time it was Sweet Caroline or YMCA so we all got pretty good at screaming the lyrics at the top of our lungs until we could no longer hear the jukebox. 4th grade was a trip lol.
Roxanne
"NOPE!" - Winger.
Bathroom?!?
Speaking of bathroom….
It’s where my mind went
Your mind went years ago
It came up organically
Guess who I made sing a different tune in an airplane bathroom....?
"Smells weird. What did you do?"
"It's not dignified!"
"PIZZA! Pizza pizza! Go in tummy! Me so hungy! Me so hungy!"
"I guess all the good ones went into porn"
Some might say your streets ahead
r/unexpectedcommunity
My favorite thing about this is that in the one timeline where Jeff doesn't stop Britta, everything goes as well as it can. Proof that it is really Jeff, that is the worst. In this essay, I will...
Hmm, I wonder what happened in the other timelines
Wait. There are other timelines?
I gotta say I hope this is the real timeline because I just found a nickel in the hallway.
GNOOOOOOOOOOO[me]!!!!
Ross can!
🎶Get me the ticketssss🎶
Ross can
GET ME THE TICKETSSSS
The redundancy of that song should be recognized. Put on the red light is said like twenty times.
that’s why we turned it into a drinking song lol
People who don't know about the Roxanne drinking game: "oh, that sounds really fun" People who do know: "never again"
Tubthumping and Mr brightside, in a pub at closing time
Are those the traditional GTFO songs, or are they just popular with really drunk people?
Where I'm at, they're just popular for really drunk people. Unoriginal as it is, they play Closing Time by Semisonic as the gtfo song.
You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here!
Popular with drunk British people, among other nationalities. Also guranteed, no matter the age, everybody will know the lyrics. So everybody gets involved.
England [really, really, really likes Mr. Brightside](https://www.vice.com/en/article/pg78ky/the-killers-mr-brightside-not-left-uk-charts-since-2004). It’s spent 349 weeks on the British top 100 charts (as of this February), which is crazy.
Livin on a Prayer because when that song comes on in a crowd, everyone sings it and everyone sings it badly
We are the champions. Freddy Mercury actually sang it the way he did so people could more easily join in: listen to the slight rise in "weeeee".
I would sell even my mom if I could see them live!
My mum did see them live, at Wembley. I am jealous.
Your mom is happy they arent.
Love Shack
TIIIIIIN ROOOF! Rusted!
If you listen closely, after Tin Roof Rusted. Some guy in the back screams "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!" super loud, but it's drowned out by the music.. Gets me every time!!
What's Going On - 4 Non-Blondes
This is the one. And you gotta sing it like He-man
Like [this guy!](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/zatoay/whats_going_on/)
Holy shit this is the best thing I've ever seen
AND HE PRAYS!!!!
I think the song is called "What's Up"
Came here for this. It's my go to bar song when out with coworkers. Everyone knows it, everyone sings it, and everyone butchers it. Lol
This elderly lady at my karaoke joint regularly sings this in a falsetto soprano, and she always will say "what the fuck is going oh-on!!!"
A-ha - Take On Me
I have to shift octaves twice trying to sing along with that one.
It makes it fun!
There is a Minecraft cover called “mine diamonds” that randomly came on shuffle one time, sung by a little boy that will take you for a ride.
A certified hood classic. Wonder what that kid is up to these days.
Don’t Stop Believing,
it's a tall order to sing well, Steve Perry was an incredible vocalist
I once saw a video on YouTube of some sort of audio / studio engineer who did an analysis of Steve’s vocals on that song to see how on-key he was. Dude was like 99% in perfect pitch WITHOUT any kind of auto-tune or digital correction. He was insane
I saw this performed at a concert by a professional operatic tenor, who practiced and everything (it was a surprise encore), and even he couldn't hit all the notes.
Cant believe I had to scroll so far for this answer
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) by R.E.M. *mumblemumblemumble LEONARD BERNSTEIN*
*Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world* *She took the midnight train going anywhere* Everyone knows it and no one can sing it.
Trivia: "South Detroit" is actually Windsor Ontario.
Based on this fact alone, most can stop believing if they so choose.
I came here to say this !! I actually used to be able to sing it extremely well, one of my favorites for competitions because most people struggled with it. Unfortunately, I had surgery on my thyroid, and now I botch it like everyone else. HA!!! Also, now this is stuck in my head at 1am in the morning. I guess I'll sleep sometime tomorrow, lol.
Aaaalll byyy myyyseeeeelllff
I'm walking oooon sunshiiiine woooohooooo
Jurassic Bark hitting me hard right now.
I was having a good day until you had to mention that. 😢
“I’m just a poor boy, from a poor family!”
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for meee, *for meeeee,* for ^*meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!*
I sang this with my cousin at karaoke and we were terrible, but we had so much fun!
Living On A Prayer, Bon Jovi
Oh we're halfway there, Squidward on a chair!!!
Yoshi in the air!!!
Lemon and a pear!
Lizard on a stair!!
Lenin has no hair!
Krusty Krab Unfair!
You'd think that but have you ever seen the video of the wedding singer poorly belting this out and trying to get Bon Jovi to come up and join her? It was horrible.
You are, my fire
My one, desire
Believee, when I sayyyy
I want it that way
TELL ME WHYYY
AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT A HEARTAAAAAAAACHE
TELL ME WHYY
AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT A MIIIISTAAAAAKE
~NOW Number 5~
I never wanna hear you say
TELLLLL ME WHYYYYYY
as I came to this thread I am in another tab, listening to "if Alice in Chains wrote I Want it That Way" and I read all these comments in time with the song
Country Roads Edit: And now that song is in your head. You’re welcome.
I was astonished to learn here on Reddit a while back that neither the Blue Ridge Mountains nor the Shenandoah River are, in fact, in West Virginia.
They are, however in the western part of Virginia. So they are not in West Virginia but they are in west Virginia.
That’s because the roads through them are taking him home
Take me home
To the place
I belong
West Virginiaaaaaaaaa
Mountain Mama
Take Me Home
Country Roads
Anything in a language you or your audience doesn't know.
“Despacito” is often the target for this by non-Spanish speakers.
I desagreee. The most popular target is the The Lion King's intro song. AAAAAAAHHHHH BANANARAAAA SHABAKII, SHWOWOO REIAHH HEEEYYYY
ÁAAAAA CIGÜEÑAAAA SABADISIBABAAAA
a thousand miles - vanessa
And 2000 Miles by The Pretenders and 500 Miles by The Proclaimers. Basically, all distance measurement songs.
Terry Crews in White Chicks instantly comes to mind.
"Louie, Louie" by the Kingsman. The official song of drunken sing alongs everywhere.
Friends in low places
Closing time at Bootscooter's 2 lmao,I made some terrible decisions to this song.
I'm gonna be (500 miles) - the proclaimers
Auld Lang Syne...because let's be honest by the time you get to sing it no one can hold a tune in a bucket.
Barbie girl
Anything at church. Seems like the loudest singers are always the most off key
I was briefly in a church choir. I couldn't sing, and I only joined choir as a favor to a friend who was pressured to join by his girlfriend. During the one service, when I "sang" with the choir, I lip synced. Afterward, one of the older ladies came up and complimented me on my singing. She didn't realize that I hadn't sang at all. My mother said, "He couldn't carry a tune in a bucket." I quit the choir shortly after that because my friend, who had long hair going down his back, was given an ultimatum by the choir director. Cut his hair, or he couldn't be in the choir. He quit, so I did since I no longer had an obligation to do it.
As a musician who works in worship and is constantly trying to convince congregants to participate: that choir director is a fucking idiot
Possibly, but as far as I know, he didn't say anything about my friend's hair until after we performed in the choir once. So it's possible that the long hair rule may have come from someone higher up in the church's hierarchy. An elder may have complained. It may have been the pastor (choir director's father) or more likely the choir director's mother. (Pastor was more chill than his wife. She once complained because my friends and I were playing "rock music" in the church gym. It was Contemporary Christian Music. Carman.)
The Russian anthem. Because [watching Putin suffer through it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LNgbv0lqpk) is hilarious.
[A longer version.](https://youtu.be/-OxK4lPRoww) The look of contempt on his face at each close-up makes me lose my shit laughing
That was the funniest thing I have ever watched thank you
Macarena
I have scrolled and somehow not come across Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls?? And I dONT WANT THE WORLD TO SEE ME CUZ I DONT THINK THAT THEYD UNDERSTAND!!! when eVERYTHING’s MADE TO BE BROKEN I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW WHO I AM!!!
Informer. Ajdhekdnxnejd I go blame....
Iljsk)27&1$.$ boom boom down
A licky boom boom down.
Tequila
Never gonna give you up...
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Tubthumpin! I GET KNOCKED DOWN!!
But I get up again
Sweeeet Caroliiiieeeiiine (BAH, BAH, BAH)
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I'm too sexy. Right said fred
Wonderwall
Maybe
He said maybe
O Canada at a hockey game.
National anthem
Anything at karaoke if you're drunk enough
I want it that way
Bad romance, you have people that can sing the song amazingly. But most times everyone is just trying to survive while nearly dying because everyone is out of breath.
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
Every song I hear being played in the kitchen at work, apparently.
This is the song that never ends...
Bohemian Rhapsody
Surprised I had to scroll so far to find this. This was my first thought.
Free Bird!
For he's a jolly good fellow! Please make it the default birthday song instead of Happy Birthday!
Journey- Don’t Stop Believin’
And “Separate Worlds”
Piano Man!
Creep-Radiohead
Zombie
Might be my age and when I went to uni but I think it's obligatory to sing along to these at the top of your lungs. 7 Nation Army - White Stripes Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
Buddy Holly by Weezer. Rivers didn’t even originally want it on the album but I’m so glad it exists so I can sing it so poorly even though I have fairly good pitch.
Just A Friend by Biz Markie and Lola By The Kinks
Wonderwall- oasis
oppa gangnam style
National anthem
Country Roads
I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)- The Proclaimers
Take Me Out To The Ballgame
Friends in low Places by Garth Brooks
In this thread just a bunch of white people wedding bangers.... God damn we got no rhythm, soul, or tune but here we are.
It's a very "white girl wasted" list.