Performance Competitions
There are singing competitions all over the country these days, where youthful singers can race for money prizes, and the opening of fame and fortune. These are terrific showcases for hot new music. American Idol is the greatest known of these singing competitions, but there are many others as well. There’s one in Las Vegas with a $50,000 cash prize just for winning the singing contest. Besides that, there’s European Idol, that is sweeping much of the rest of the globe with its unprecedented popularity. Some are net-based, like the Doritos Crash the Superbowl competition, won by Kina Grannis.
My friends and I all love to sing, but we essentially totally ignore these singing competitions. It is just not our particular niche. I do not even think the singing is notably decent. It is all bad pop music, saccharine sweet and fully without soul. We have our own singing competitions, and although no 1 ever gets 50 grand for winning them, I think that they’re a lot more fun anyway.
From time to time, after various rounds of drinks, we will pick a song and compete, doing different renditions of it. Whoever can sink it in the loudest, grittiest, most raucous and audacious intonation automatically wins, and everybody has to buy him or her a drink. By the next round of which contest, the winner of the previous one has a clear gain, and normally whoever wins the first one wins all night, or until he passes out.
Since we’re classically trained vocalists, our singing competitions are not always fairly so ridiculous. Sometimes we form duos, trios, or quartets among ourselves, and entertain our other non-singing friends at parties. They have to vote on which piece is greatest, or possibly we informally decide among ourselves.
Additionally, since we’re all in authority choirs, on occasion we go to attend real singing competitions. Although they get little attention, and countless professionals shun them, anyway there are in fact singing competitions where choirs from all over the state race for a prize and the recognition of their peers. The greatest thing in connection with these singing competitions isn’t really the trying to win (although the winning is nice). It’s the festive atmosphere of the whole thing. It’s wonderful to spend all day just singing some classics with some of the greatest singers in the country, singing our conditions and listening to them singing theirs. These singing competitions are forever the highlights of the seasons, because it’s such an opening to be around other fantastic artists, hear what they’re doing, and pick up new ideas.
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