Friday, September 13, 2013

Fake It Till You Make...Then Fake It Some More Until You Can Retire


So you’re an aspiring lead singer. So spend all of your free time in some kind of voice training and by now you could shut down a tapas restaurant for the night with one perfect, pitched wail. Yet at your live shows, no one seems to care. Perhaps its because you’ve been spending too much time doing vocal exercises and weirding out your roommates and not enough time at karaoke bars, weirding out drunken strangers. Being a good lead singer is arguably as much about stage presences as it is anything else. Everyone has heard a good singer before. Pop music is full of them, so you need to set yourself apart. Take Mick Jagger for example. He definitely does not have amazing vocal capabilities but a large part of his success and ultra-star reputation is his stage presence and famous strut. I’m not saying this accounts for the Rolling Stones popularity – not by a long shot. David Johannsen of the 70s glam/punk pioneers the New York Dolls had a virtually identical routine (in fact Jagger blatantly and admittedly stole it) but got virtually nowhere for a few reasons, but mostly because they just weren’t as good. But then again, Johannsen got to play a ghost-taxi driver and mess with Bill Murray on Christmas Eve in the movie Scrooged, so everything’s a trade-off. But I digress…the point is that for a singer, virtuosity just isn’t enough. To learn more about how you can reach your performance potential, follow the link below:


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