To hate it when people sing?

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I don't mean choirs or humming a happy tune as you do your dishes. I mean randomly breaking out into song.

This might just be my mad family but I'll try and explain

So my mum and her immediate family members do have very nice singing voices and are known in their local area for this.

However they do this thing where they basically start singing and everyone has to stop and listen.

So for example, everyone is at one of their houses for auntie's 60th. Someone will say something that inadvertently reminds someone else of a song (say uncle Pete says the chicken in thyme is lovely, aunt Sally will break out into Wild Mountain Thyme)

And then she'll do this haunting a capella rendition and everyone is expected to stop what they're doing and listen to her, marvelling at her talent or whatever the fuck. Or in my case, wishing she'd be quiet.

Another example - the other day I was giving my mum a lift somewhere with my baby and older child in the back. Baby started fussing. Mum launched into haunting rendition of some fucking song she sings in her choir. Baby fussed more. I had a conversation with older DC regarding baby's rattle, where it was and if DC could reach it. All the time mum is warbling away soulfully. I asked her if she could stop singing a minute so I could hear DC. She then got really ratty with me and snapped "I'm allowed to sing if I want!". But I know that she was pissed off because the car didn't fall silent at the power of her voice, instead we went on a verbal hunt for the fucking rattling dragonfly toy.

Seriously, they do this all the fucking time and it makes me cringe to the point where I want to claw out my eardrums. I feel like a mortified teenager.

AIBU? Am I being petty or is this genuinely annoying as fuck?

I'm not even sure what annoys me about it, I think it's the soulful attitude

I swear it made me feel panicky, actual I want to run away panic. I know that sounds mad

You are not mad. I would die a little bit inside every time this happened.

I am married to a professional musician and none of his singer colleagues would EVER do this.

I'd love it! I'm a singer and this sounds amazing.

Tommy Kangaroo 😂😂

OP "(say uncle Pete says the chicken in thyme is lovely, aunt Sally will break out into Wild Mountain Thyme)"

I would be the one saying "Oh FFS shut up and eat your chicken".

Sorry i've never figured out clicky links but this is exactly what my friends are like

Reading the op made me laugh

The only person I expect to listen to my singing is my cat.

🤣 great thread

I was prepared to say yabu, but what a bunch of attention seekers.

Love the kazoo thing, get one round your neck.

Or go with passive/aggressive, start commenting how strange it is that people's voices go 'off' with age, or even better refer to the Florence Foster Jenkins movie every single time.

She used to put her own songs on and make the office listen to them instead of the radio.

Noooooooooooo! How utterly grim

Well your family sound a bit crazy but I too hate public singing and find it toe curlingly cringey

I’ve found my people. I am dying of cringe when someone starts singing. Where are you supposed to look? I can’t look at them cause that makes the cringe worse.

Mine stems from a teenage friend - used to go to her house sometimes and at some point every time she would get her guitar out and start playing Fleetwood Mac or the Eagles 🤬🤬 I’m a shit singer so just sat there feeling the cringe.

It’s carried on my whole life. Don’t mind when the kids and I are in the car and sing along to the radio - it’s the solo singing in an otherwise nice environment. Just stop

I know a family like this.
The mum and dad used to be part of a operatic society doing all the plays etc and then they had 3 kids who can all sing very, very well.

But if you walk into their house it's like walking into a Disney movie. And I have no doubt it's like that when there are no guests but they'd do things like: one of the boys also has a musical oriented girlfriend and they'd break into duets of "a whole new world" from alladin. Starting off just subtly whilst waiting for people to notice and then gradually getting louder and louder, walking towards each other and basically acting it out.
It's disgusting!

😂 you’d hate my family!

it's disgusting

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You have painted a vivid picture I can picture your mum knocking the theatrics up a notch as you all continue looking for the rattle and ignore her soulful warbling.

It sounds incredibly annoying and your family get together a nightmare but you really made me laugh.

I have a sister who used to harmonize nursery rhymes every time I croaked them to my kids.

She’s now banned from singing unless we’re at a wedding or something when the aunts and uncles beg her to sing and she “grudgingly agrees”.

They try to make us all sing but the rest of us do actually protest.

Starting off just subtly whilst waiting for people to notice and then gradually getting louder and louder, walking towards each other and basically acting it out.

I love this thread so much. 😂😂😂

Hilarious 😂😂 what a great op and thread..
I do this with my dc, particularly to musicals I adore singing with dc.

This is hilarious though. Not in same league at all but df would do this breaking out into Danny boy quite a lot.

I would hate to be part of your family - people randomly singing to get attention is beyond cringy

I worked with a woman who had studied music and classical singing bless her she would belt out nursery rhymes using all her range at singing time the 3 year olds didn't stand a chance !

YANBU, OP.

Sounds like the seventh circle of some Streisandesque hell.

You’ve brought back memories of a girl I was sort of friends with at school. Anything would set her off but she used to come up with mash-up “on the spot”. Glee was on tv at the time. Clearly she worked on them for weeks. It was awful as you were trying to leave class and she was entertaining the class. How teachers put up with it I don’t. She recently put up more than 800 (!) pictures of her wedding on Facebook. And 1 video which I haven’t watched but I know is going to be her singing.

*Your family are insane. My Dad occasionally does this and everyone walks off, tells him to shut the fuck up or comments about dementia.

This is the normal, healthy British response. This is the spirit that made the UK great. *

🤣 I was just thinking why doesn't anyone just go 'fuck off, not this again' and walk out of the room

Listen, my heritage is Indian. Imagine all of that with a Bollywood twist! Literally every function, there’s at least one aunty who will put on a performance. Wedding, party, night out, funerals. At my cousins engagement, we all gathered for the cake cutting when one random auntie started belting out some 80s tune, completely out of tune. Then all the other aunties started dancing around, Bhangra style, whilst the rest of us just stood there cringing. This has been going on my whole life and I still cringe every single time

You should stand up and start dancing OP. Something classy like Stayin Alive, Wigfields Saturday night or maybe the Macarena? Then finish with a floss and a dab or whatever it is that the kids are doing nowadays.