To hate it when people sing?

[Ilovemybrick2]

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’m literally crying here 😂😂😂😂

They harmonise with nursery rhymes as well. My mum once tried to harmonise with some song on my nephew's activity walker thing.

@SoundofSilence that has made me laugh so much my poor baby who is currently on the boob keeps coming off and crying because I'm depriving him of his dinner!!!

Absolutely fucking hysterical!!

You win 😂

And yes, mum's family are a mixture of Irish, Scottish and everything except English, which is hilarious because my dad was practically conceived on a Home Counties cricket pitch, and even wears beige chinos with a crease down the middle. He can't stand the singing either, he sits in the corner rocking and muttering "they're all fucking mad". I told him he should have bloody well known what he was getting into when Mum stage invaded at Glastonbury and tap danced in front of some bloody eighties band, back when they were first together

cathyorclaire it was kind of funny because he usually didn't talk much, he only broke into song after a few drinks

I find this hilarious but I'm l

Give me some drama and colour any day grin let them sing... Yes.
We call it 'one singer one song' in our house. This has just reminded me of how much I loved producing class musicals and now I don't do that any more.

This brings back memories of an old AIBU thread where the OP wanted to know whether they would be unreasonable to sing in harmony at toddler groups. The nay-sayers were accused of being killjoys and miseries.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2124697-to-sing-harmonies-in-toddler-music-sessions

Crying at some of the descriptions on this thread. :o

My mum does this!!! YANBU. I recall her saying to me when dd was 2 weeks old and screaming just because of life... 'just sing to her! That will help!' and me being a frazzled new mum feeling like whacking her (mum, not daughter!!)

@Ilovemybrick2

Please tell me that you plan to get one of these and that you will wear it with harmonica to all family events from now on??

www.amazon.co.uk/Hohner-Harp-Holder-Hole-Harmonica/dp/B000EELFTW?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

PLEASE??!!!!

You could then lean in every time they look like are going to break into song :) :)

This is the thread that keeps on giving. I have a low threshold for second hand embarrassment so I'm torn between horrified cringing and hilarity.

There's another thread on here asking if people really laugh out loud at mumsnet threads and it's a resounding YES with this one. The mournful kazoo set me off and I've been cackling ever since.

They sound very into themselves. Cringe.

Laughing out loud here! Yanbu I'd have strangled her!

Lol. YANBU, but my fantasy superpower is a gorgeous and powerful singing voice, so if I actually could sing I'd never stop. Luckily I can't, so everybody's safe!

When we were younger, we had some much older friends from the pub, they would often throw an impromptu party after closing time. Him and her would start singing, but there were no proper words, just long warbles, Billy Connelly did a sketch which was similar. Perhaps a good job we were pissed, not so cringeworthy. They once went around the room and each person had to sing, the only song I know Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer went down a storm.

I work near a college and at lunchtime in the local supermarket there’s always at least one teen walking around with their friends singing very erm... meaningfully it’s so cringe because they’re obviously expecting everyone to stop and listen to them and say Oh My God are you Mariah Carey?

I get awkward enough at happy birthday this would finish me off

I had to leave this thread mid-afternoon, as I was laughing so hard! Love the kazoo idea - probably easier to pick up and carry around with you than, say, a saxophone.

I hope I'm not as annoying as your family OP - I love to belt out a song, often when prompted by a word, but only in the privacy of the home and I don't expect the family to stop what they're doing and be amazed.

However, once I start a song I will sing it right through and get a bit pissed off when interrupted - is this just as bad as "performing"?

P.S. My dad used to bore people with his harmonica, and would often boast that he could play more than 600 songs from memory, AND list them all. Tread carefully, OP.

Just come back from an evening out and had to listen to DH pom pomming along to the car radio. If he doesn't know the words he just improvises with a pomm per Pom Pom Pom. I then have to hear it around the house later on. Just caught his eye and said "oh you do like to Pom don't you" and he blimming well agreed. Didn't hear the sarcasm bless him.