There are many musical experiments I have tried but the all-time, hands-down, absolute worst was when I got some barely-pubescent nieces and some of their friends together on a stage because they wanted to cover The Bangles singing "Eternal Flame."
It seemed like such an innocent thing as it would be too, too precious to see these kids singing about eternal love and they were nieces so that would be cute for the parents ...
but
DAYUM was this a stupid idea.
I had no idea how much drama could be packed into a three-minute song by four thirteen-year-old girls. And that was before they ever got onto the stage as there were tears, there was all manner of things. This was light years beyond anything I could handle as I have no kids and yet here are four crying barely-teenage girls. Other than calling Tommy Lee Jones, I'm out of answers. (If you know the movie to which that refers, well, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry for both of us.)
And then they sang.
These girls couldn't find a key with a TSA metal detector. It was a musical horror akin to when Tiny Tim tried to do the cover of "Comfortably Numb." (Don't look for it. Others have gone but they never returned.)
It was still cute, tho. This was the worst musical horror of all-time but they did finally have fun with it.
No, I am not slashing these girls. This was well over fifteen years ago so I rather doubt the artistic sensibilities of my nieces will be significantly affected.
It seemed like such an innocent thing as it would be too, too precious to see these kids singing about eternal love and they were nieces so that would be cute for the parents ...
but
DAYUM was this a stupid idea.
I had no idea how much drama could be packed into a three-minute song by four thirteen-year-old girls. And that was before they ever got onto the stage as there were tears, there was all manner of things. This was light years beyond anything I could handle as I have no kids and yet here are four crying barely-teenage girls. Other than calling Tommy Lee Jones, I'm out of answers. (If you know the movie to which that refers, well, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry for both of us.)
And then they sang.
These girls couldn't find a key with a TSA metal detector. It was a musical horror akin to when Tiny Tim tried to do the cover of "Comfortably Numb." (Don't look for it. Others have gone but they never returned.)
It was still cute, tho. This was the worst musical horror of all-time but they did finally have fun with it.
No, I am not slashing these girls. This was well over fifteen years ago so I rather doubt the artistic sensibilities of my nieces will be significantly affected.
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