In junior year of high school, for whatever reason the faculty decided to do a "faculty talent show" meaning the teachers and staff would basically embarrass themselves on stage in front of the students. I don't know why anyone thought this was a good idea, but whatever. The only thing I remember from this day is that my history teacher who may have been a lesbian and some other lady danced to "It's Raining Men" dressed as The Weather Girls, and another staff member came out dressed in Scottish attire, kilt and all, playing the bagpipes. Don't know what he played on it, though.
Speaking of talent shows, I don't know why I ever pushed myself into signing up for them whenever they had them, but I did. I like to sing, but I never had access to any karaoke tracks at the time, but everyone would sing over the vocals so whatever. Only year I did something "different" was seventh grade when I memorized the dance to Froggy Mix's "
No Nagging" which I'm embarrassed by nowadays because they had to wheel out a TV to keep in the back row facing away from me and hook it onto the speakers because it was on the
Cardcaptors DVD. Also it was hardly a dance, but whatever.
Freshman year in high school, I try out for the talent show and decided to sing a Japanese song since I was taking Japanese and I found the Digimon character songs and fell in love with them. I don't know how they determine who gets in or not at the auditions, but I got in and I wanted to sing one song, but they had a policy to have it be no longer than four or five minutes, and the song's five minutes long, but I couldn't find a karaoke version. So I went with a different song I had to sing
a capella, but I had to prove to my mom I
could sing without musical accompaniment and with no breaks before she approved of it, so I stubbornly sang in front of her in the kitchen as she scowled (she had argued I couldn't do it, she didn't want me to embarrass myself).
One of my classmates was another singer who was just before me, so she went on to sing "Call Me When You're Sober" (yep, she was one of those chicks), but then dropped it with a "Never mind" and fled the stage shaking in tears half because of stage fright, and half because she started thinking of a past drama with a boyfriend or friend or something. I did my thing and then went back to go find her and that was that.
Two years later (couldn't try out sophomore year because I had already done it freshman year), I wanted to try out with a different song, one that I
did get a karaoke track to, but I had a schedule conflict in that I was attending a technical school off-campus, and auditions were only during lunch or after class or something. Well, it turned out the next day that the teacher in charge
did wait for me, but I never showed up. A classmate was supposed to tell me about her, but she had forgotten to tell me, and I remember
feeling like I should've gone check it out, but I didn't follow through with it. Didn't try out in senior year to make up for it for the same reason, but my seminary class by the end of the year was holding their own impromptu talent show just because, so I volunteered and sang
the song I wanted as I carried the CD around with me at the time for memorization. Only thing I remember from that day was I happened to glance out the door window during one of the choruses and saw a teacher was passing through but then stopped to listen. Apparently the class next door could hear me as well and had stopped whatever they were doing as a result. I have to take people's word for it that I have a good voice, although by then I knew I had
some kind of pipes to be heard a good distance.
Anyway, talent shows are a mixed bag. If I had really cared to, I probably could've just done drama or kept going with choir. Eh.