To think the military wives choir is a bit rubbish?

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Now please don't think that I'm against what they do and the reasons they do it.
I think they are supporting a VERY worthy cause and I donate to help for Heros every month BUT the choir is just a bit rubbish.. They don't sound particularly harmonious like a good choir should and a few of the solos i have listened to have just been awful.
Is it wrong of me to think that they should just raise awareness in other ways rather than people buying CD's that they aren't actually going to listen to?

YANBU, they're crap. The one that released a single a few years ago were especially awful.

Knowing the military wives that I know I doubt any of them are horrified or devastated by this thread, tbh.

Wow I came back to talk about mortgages and SFA and it seems to have snowballed.

Nobody is saying they shouldn't exist, were just saying stop singing at us badly in some choirs

I've had very negative personal experiences, so my view is understandibly skewed. I'm sure the majority are welcoming and friendly, just the 2 I met were awful both in personality and sound.

But now I think due to a certain posters overreaction people can see perhaps where my negative experience has stemmed from. Don't like what I like I'll verbally abuse you niiiiice

It's suddenly turned to pad on line in here 😂

Jiggly I thought we unintentionally derailed this thread yesterday with our mortgage chat....but I came back this morning and was like 😳😳 "that escalated quickly"

The "listen here my darling/dear" reminded me of an RSM's wife, every bloody family day she's start mouthing off about something. Once she tried to tell me to get my toddler out of the soft play area because he'd been in for ten minutes and the officers children and their nanny wanted to use it my reply was "is my child a unwashed pedant? No, he can stay"

Wasn't like it was a tiny soft play, it was a massive double field tent!

Jiggly good for you! Your husband's in the military not you or your kids.

Someone tried to pull their husband's rank on me once. She said something along the lines of 'my husband's an officer and will have a word with you about such and such'. I said 'I know I'm in his chain of command....above him'. It was beautiful

YADNBU!

Awful.

Bambam Jiggly

These types??
I'm lucky enough to never have encountered one myself - one of the small joys of a tiny camp I guess!

The problem with the choir is if they're wanting to be deadly serious, and a female voice choir, it's a bit tricky to take men (especially if there aren't many of them) - you'd need quite a few tenors, baris and basses to balance out all those sopranos and altos.

Of course the best thing to do would be to run a big mixed voice choir and then occasional small groups of just m/f voices, but I imagine people get stuck in the rut of "we're great as we are, and nobody else takes men anyway".

Some are in a world of their own! Some are really nice and never adopt rank but one are two want to tattoo on their husband rank and boss you about. I'm now off pad so I'm no longer involved in it all, but we still go to family events and things.

MyBread bang on

What a nasty and goady thread op. I totally agree with MrsMeME, they may not sound like The Choir of Kings College, but this is helping them get through what is a very difficult and uncertain time for them. It is also helping them learn a skill, singing should not be about how fantastic you are, or be just the preserve of professionals, it should be open to everyone, and the fact that the MWC is comprised of ordinary wives and partners, and bringing it out there in the forefront, is a good thing, and if it encourages more people to take up singing so be it!

Very nasty op, shame on you!

If you don't like them, there's the off button on the TV or remote!

Aero when your at a mess / family event there is no off button, you have to sit their and endure it.

What they (including current military wives) are objecting to is having choirs which are not very good singing at them whether they like it or not.

This a 1,000 x this. I can understand why it would be an enjoyable and valuable thing for the choir to take part in, but the exposure and praise they've received is completely out of proportion with their musical ability.

I would much rather hear MWC than blooming X factor, and some of the rubbish that is called singing.

Steph2506- Oh please, spare me the sentiments! They're rubbish and it's time they found another hobby- like perhaps making cupcakes.

Judy - my point is not irrelevant.

It's an amateur choir ffs.

I liken it to those nude calendars that became so popular post calendar girls. As a one off it was novel and interesting. As soon as everyone started doing it it became cliché and unoriginal.

As a one-off choir with a record, great. I don't fully agree with the message but fine.
It now seems to have morphed into this WI kind of thing that feels entitled to perform at paying social events and flog CDs. But God forbid if anyone actually says anything critical about the standard because they have the 'guts' to do it. It's become a sacred cow but I'm not sure why.

*Jennpenn
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I would just like to point out that I'm currently sat on my arse while on maternity leave looking after a 2yo and a 2month old baby!!! Do NOT dare play the we are working card! I work bloody hard and my maternity leave isn't much of a rest!
God forbid in This very rate moment, when I have managed to get both kids to nap at the same time and finished my housework, I actually SAT down to watch my favorite program only to have it spoilt by having this very amateur choir on it!

I would also like to point out that I understand the loneliness of being a MW because my ex was serving overseas at the time!
So to all those saying its a nasty post it really isn't, it is just generally pointing out that a choir should be performance ready i.e. Can sing at least nearly in tune.

Sorry should have said be be performance read if they are going to perform

yummymummy don't worry I know what your saying, a choir should be able to sing regardless of its processiona/ameture status, and we don't all have to be in awe of it.

Must be just me that thinks for the first few weeks the other half is away "ahhh peace" 😂

OP, ignore that horrible post by Jennpenn, it was a disgusting, personal attack and has quite rightly been deleted.

Most of us knew exactly what you meant.

The choir I'm in is a brilliant, cohesive experience which I love. We perform a summer and Christmas concert for friends and family and I always say beforehand "we're a bit shit but it's a laugh". The MWC would do well to adopt a similar attitude and stay off the bloody telly.

They're too sentimental. And, the ubiquitous close up of a MW warbling away with tears in her eyes just looks hammy.

Plenty of women are married to 'heroes' and have to deal with the ensuing stress and worries. But they don't insist on inflicting their poor singing on an innocent public.

This thread has some nasty stuff running through it. There's plenty of total crap on tv but it doesn't produce this amount of horrid posts. As I said in an earlier post, Gareth Malone's choir wasn't the first but, as he talked about in the programme, one of his aims was to increase visibility of military wives (yes there are husbands too but let's be realistic, there are far more wives than husbands). Being on TV helps that visibility. Some (kinder) people might understand that the singing is often below average,m but be able to see beyond that an understand the point of it all.

Being married to the forces has its benefits but in the main it's a pretty tough life. What the MWCs have done is to make those people more visible and give public credence to the "job" they do which is a really important one to support those who serve. Military wives often have a very transient life, finding it hard to keep friends, almost impossible to keep a long term career/job, and children suffer too with one parent absent for long periods of time. Wives give birth to children with husbands away far more often than you'd think - I know at least five fathers who have met their children for the first time at the age of between 6 weeks and 4 months.

If you don't like it, turn it off. If you don't want to hear them in the mess, well let's face it, it's maybe 10 mins of your evening, just suck it up. Let them enjoy themselves and find the happiness and support they do in being a part of the choir. To encourage such miserable posts in this thread is just unforgiving and depressing.