TOC #205: You're gonna be popular 😏
(November 26, 2024) You don't have to settle for "JUST FINE" anymore
Practice is for peasants.
Experts like me? We don't practice.
We simply go out on stage in our shiny pink dress, and we SING.
Or, at least, that's the idea.
…but in reality? Things are different.
My 12-year-old self didn't know that, though.
Clearly, she thought she was all that. 🙄
She'd been taking voice lessons since 3rd grade, which practically made her a professional soloist. 💅🏼
She brought the entire audience of the Pakachoag music school to tears with her rendition of Oliver!'s Where Is Love? at the young age of seven, for goodness sake! She shouldn't need to practice for a song she can sing in her sleep.
Plus, she got enough practice every week in her 30-minute lesson with Mrs. Gainty at the high school.
So, when it was her turn to get up and sing at her 7th grade voice recital, she was confident.
The accompanist started playing, then nodded her in, and she began:
🎶 Whe-eeenever I see someone, less fortunate than I… 🎶 and let's face it, who isn't? 🎶 less fortunate than IIIIII 🎶 my tender heart tends to start to bleeeed… 🎶 and when someone neeeeeds a makeover 🎶 I simply HAAAVE to takeover 🎶 I know, I KNOW, exaaactlyyyy 🎶 what they neeeed 🎶 and…
You know Wicked, don't you, First name / bestie?
So you know what comes next, right?
🎶 Though it's the toughest case I've yet to face 🎶 don't worry, 🎶 I'm determined to succeeeeed! 🎶 Follow MYYYYY lead! 🎶 And yes… 🎶 Indeed… 🎶
You.
Will.
Be…
🎶 POPULAR! 🎶
🎶 YOU'RE GONNA BE POPULAR! 🎶
…and, um.
Then what?
Seriously! THEN WHAT????
Come on, sing it! You know the words! SING, DAMMIT! You've heard it and sang along to it a million times!
Well.
Seventh Grade Sara had, too.
But she forgot the fucking words anyway.
Despite her strong start, and her unwavering confidence in her singing abilities, and her background as a critically acclaimed child star (basically), she flopped.
See, she thought she'd be fine.
Everything else had pretty much worked out for her up until that point. Why should she suddenly put effort in when everything else was, for the most part, fine?
(Because, eventually, “fine” gets to a point where it's not *actually* fine anymore, but we'll get to that later…)
Despite it being for peasants, she knew deep down that she should've practiced.
But there was always something better to do, like hang out with her friends, or watch Degrassi when her mom wasn't looking, or chat with her church boyfriend on AIM.
She made a choice: she prioritized other things.
…and, for a while, it was fine!
UUUUUNTIL she embarrassed herself in the Black Box Theatre, giving a hundred people the impression that she was NOT the performer she made herself out to be — when the impression she meant to make was the opposite.
And that was something she wouldn't be able to change. You can't undo a first impression.
So, even though SHE knew she was a good singer, and her voice teacher knew she slayed the song… no one in the audience knew, because her performance was just FINE.
And, suddenly, “just fine” did NOT feel fine anymore.
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