What Are They Hearing?

I have a question for you... What do people hear when they THINK they sing well, but don't? My husband swears he sounds just like "Bronski Beat" (yea, that group from the 80's). And will try to prove it too! LIVE ON RADIO! For the longest time he thought (really believed) he could impersonate professional singers... wow.

Eventually I tried to gently suggest that he didn't quite sound like these people he was hearing... He accused me of being jealous and petty! Hardly! I was trying to save him the embarrassment of this unfounded pride! But now it was on!

Every opportunity he has, now, he sings! Oh boy does he SING... to SPITE me! And really, there are some songs that are in his range that sound just fine... the problem is his ego that leads him to believe that he can sing anything... and it sounds great... kind of like the dancer that brazenly takes the dance floor with all the confidence in the world that it is SOLID GOLD!

So... my question is... what is he hearing? Like a person with no rhythm... they look like a marionette puppet, except the person moving the strings is listening to a different song. What are those people hearing? What is moving their bodies? Just like them, what is my husband hearing?

Recently he played a recording of what the satellites pick up from Earth, a mixture of screeching, beeping, random words, phrases... basically chaos. Maybe people with no rhythm and people that THINK they can sing are tuned into a different wave length than the rest of us.

A wave where sounds, beats and noise all collide in an unrecognizable mish mash medley! Considering that, THAT is what they may be hearing I guess they're doing pretty good. I guess we should feel lucky that they aren't acting out in violence.

So flail on rhythmless dancers, wave and swing vigorously; thrash! Honey, caterwaul till your heart gives out, cry and screech like a cat in heat! Just don't hurt anyone.