Happy Thanksgiving to all! :)
I belong to this site called kSolo.com. It's a site where you sing songs via karaoke. It's still in the beta stages, but it's pretty damn cool. I love to sing, and I also know the types of songs I can and can't sing. If there is a song I like on the site to which I don't know the words or melody or just find it very difficult for me to sing, I DON'T DO IT. I know the site is for fun. That's why I'm on it; however, there are some people on there who should not be singing, especially on a karaoke site with a ratings and feedback system. If you sing like a donkey in heat, you are bound to get bad feedback and low ratings. I love Mariah Carey's "Can't Let Go." I know the song better than the back of my vocal cords...okay, I don't know what my vocal cords look like, but work with me, here! It can prove to be a very diffiuclt song to sing, especially if you don't know the song or are not a good singer in the first place. I know every high, low, chord and chorus of this song. I have never sang this song in public. I always sing it at home, and usually, I sing it in a lower register. When I do that, I can WORK IT! However, I chose NOT to record it on kSolo. I have made several attempts, but never saved it. Why? Because I felt my versions weren't good enough FOR ME, and I knew that if I saved the versions I attempted, I would get a bad rating, and I wasn't about to go there. However, one person in particular tried to sing Mariah Carey’s “Can’t Let Go,” and this girl completely DECIMATED the song. I mean, she was fucking AWFUL. Off key, too loud, wrong range, BLECH! I mean, if you listened to it while you were too full, and you had a serious gag reflex, you probably would have thrown up.
This is what I wrote:
IN ALL HONESTY, this is NOT a good song for you. You were out of tune and completely off key, and there was too much overkill on other parts of the song. I don't know why others gave you a high rating. They were not being honest with you. You are only lying to yourself if you think you did a really good job on this song. I have a feeling you will delete my rating, as you have probably deleted other low ratings, but you need to BE REAL AND HONEST WITH YOURSELF. You did not do a good job on this song. BE REAL.
This is tame compared to other things that have been said about bad singers on kSolo! Most of the ratings for the song were 10s; however, the majority of the ratings were given to her by men, and in my opinion, these guys were giving her 10s, not for her bad singing, but because of her looks. The girl has her picture on her profile, and is a thin, blonde-haired chick. The ones who responded to what I wrote were MEN. Two men, to be exact, who claimed that this girl was the angel that had descended from heaven and that she didn't deserve my slap on the hand. What the fuck ever, losers. Why be pissed at me for telling the truth? Oh, wait, because she's "cute as a button," she can't be touched, right? Had her picture not been up there or she were not as “attractive,” I seriously doubt she would have gotten the ratings she did, thus proving that there are far too many shallow people out there who will do and/or say anything for a pretty face or a nice body.
She eventually deleted her "rousing rendition" of "Can't Let Go," which is fine by me, because it was awful. I listened to another song she tried to sing, which was Alicia Keys’ “If I Ain’t Got You,” you know, to give her the BOTD, but she didn’t fare well with that song, either, thus leading me to believe that this girl couldn’t sing a note out of a bucket.
Okay, enough about Miss kSolo 2005. LOL I'm finally finished with that stupid-ass temp job and I will be starting a permanent job in December. Thank goodness. I was tired of jumping around from hot spot to hot spot with what felt like no end in sight. Stuffing envelopes, copying documents and trying to talk to people on the phone while sitting around three ditzy appointment schedulers is not my bag. There was one chick there who kept calling people "sweetie" and kept using the word "fabulous" every time she talked to patients. I find it a little unprofessional to address a patient while making an appointment as "sweetie," but that's just me. I won't even get into the lady who I replaced for 3 weeks. Okay, maybe I will. She was nice enough; however, when she called herself a born-again Christian, but cussed about as much, if not more, than I did, it made me raise an eyebrow. LOL Anyway, I digress.
She was out of the office because she was getting that ever-so popular new diet - the weight loss surgery diet! You, too, can lose up to 100 pounds in 3 weeks! Someone actually said, "You'll be so cute, thin and healthy when you come back!" WHAT-THE-FUCK? Now, this lady was about 5'3" or 5'4" and all of 200-230 pounds, yet, she needed surgery? She claimed it wasn't for vanity, but for her type II diabetes. My husband has type II diabetes, and his doctors haven't suggested gastric bypass surgery for him to get well. I assume she REALLY did it because of the little bugs in her ear telling her she needs to be thin, but that's just me, of course. I despise weight loss surgery, and even if in the remote possibility I gained 600 pounds, I wouldn't get it. Might as well die happy with a bucket of KFC rather than not be able to enjoy what I eat for the rest of my life with a severely reduced pouch formerly known as my stomach and be a size 10 dying to be thin!
At any rate, all relatives are out of town, and hubby and I are making a semi- non-traditional Thanksgiving dinner for two: deep fried chicken, homemade macaroni and cheese with FOUR kinds of cheese in it, greens, string beans and potatoes, cornbread, sweet potatoes and candied yams and homemade, freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies!! I love that man!!! We are having such a great time! I am and have always been thankful for all that God has blessed me with, and this day is no different. Thank you, God, for all your blessings! Amen!
ETA: Miss kSolo 2005 decided to sing "Can't Let Go" again, and it's no better than the first time she sang it. She still decimated the song, and she's still a horrible singer. However, I listened to another person who decided to sing "Can't Let Go," and this chick is WORSE than Miss kSolo. I didn't think it could get any worse, but it did. OH MY LORD. WILL YOU DUMB-ASS BITCHES WHO CAN'T SING STOP TRYING TO SING MARIAH CAREY SONGS? If you don't know how to work the pipes, then you can't be the plumber! That's all for now.
