Sentences with phrase «as bad singers»

Overall, Hutchins found that about 60 percent of non-musicians could be classified as bad singers because of pitch accuracy errors.

Not exact matches

Like Peter Singer and Jeff McMahan, I have sympathy for Anna Stubblefield, the Rutgers professor who was convicted in 2015 of raping a severely disabled man known as «D.J.» Her crime, horrid as it was, arose not from bad intentions or from failed duty, but from the consistent application of ideas we are all asked to applaud.

Latterly, in the West at least, eccentrics have shown a remarkable capacity to flourish while inviting and suffering derision, as demonstrated by numerous «bad» poets and singers stubbornly and unaffectedly proud of their dubious gifts, as well as the many self - styled emperors and statesmen.

He also tells me that the majority of self - diagnosed bad singers aren't quite as inept as they think.

This 90s jam was one of the earlier songs to make a frank reference to lesbian romance («makin» love to her with visions clear»), but, seeing as singer Sophie B. Hawkins identifies as omnisexual, it can also be read as more broad than that; an LGBT song about love that will appeal to anyone pining for a friend in a bad relationship.

Unfortunately, Mumble is the worst singer in the world... however, as it happens, he is a brilliant tap dancer!

The stand - out performances are from Blakley and Gwen Welles as an incredibly bad singer, trying to get a break in Nashville.

He's a hard man to resist, which is as much a testament to the character as written as to his casting: A rock singer - guitarist for the Belgian band A Brand with only one other IMDb feature credit to his name, Vermeir is a naturally charismatic performer with the capacity for nuance, a bit like «Malcolm in the Middle» - era Bryan Cranston in appearance, with that actor's ability to find layers of «Breaking Bad» - style complexity beyond that charming first impression.

Also nestling its way into voters» minds from the Beverly Hilton ballroom was Meryl Streep, who was considered a bubble candidate at best for her role as a bad opera singer in the little - seen «Florence Foster Jenkins.»

You have the Adam Sandler category, which as we all know means that a film is irredeemably bad (with occasional anomalies that come with the shifting of tides or blue moons, like The Wedding Singer), you have films of appalling ineptitude, but sometimes, just sometimes, you get a film so bad it's strangely brilliant.

Which is too bad, since Bozeman (who, according to the credits, lip - synched to Brown's original vocals) brings great energy and charisma to his turn as the singer.

Meryl Streep stars as Florence Foster Jenkins, a real life eccentric who fancied herself a singer but who was a really, really, REALLY bad singer.

Starring Craig Robinson, An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn follows Lulu Danger (Aubrey Plaza) as her crumbling marriage takes a turn for the worse when a singer, Beverly Luff Linn, played by Robinson, reemerges from her past to perform a show in her hometown.

Rumours that Swift, 25, would make a cameo appearance as mutant Dazzler in upcoming «X-Men: Apocalypse» emerged when Kinberg was photographed with the «Bad Blood» singer alongside other cast members such as James McAvoy and Sophie Turner.

Such is the approach of «Florence Foster Jenkins» (in theaters Aug. 12), Frears» latest biographical dramedy, about the life of the notorious New York heiress who went down in history as the worst opera singer ever to perform at Carnegie Hall.

There's a pretty nasty undercurrent going here as they pick one of the worst singers they can find.

Geoff Berkshire, Variety.com: «Even though «Apocalypse» hardly reps the franchise nadir (an in - joke midway through this»80s - set pic throws deserved shade at Brett Ratner's woeful «X-Men: The Last Stand» as one character exits «Return of the Jedi» and laments «the third one's always the worst»), this is easily the least compelling, surprising and satisfying of Singer's entries.»

An aging and broke bad - boy rocker from the 1990s gets another shot at fame 25 years later as a songwriter for a brash and talented young singer who's a big fan of his early work.

There is also the first footage ever shown of Jackson's Wembley Stadium gigs, taken from the singer's own archive, images of which I hadn't seen since I attended those gigs in July 1988 (a DVD of the full concert can now be found as part of the deluxe 4 four - disc box set rerelease of the Bad album).

In the history books, Jenkins is defined as «The World's Worst Singer».

The Truth About Youth briefly flickers to life when Loy comes on slinky nightclub singer «The Firefly,» seducing Young's betrothed, and she steals the show in The Naughty Flirt (1931), another tale of high - society bad behavior, this one starring Alice White as a brazen socialite who sets her sights on a young lawyer's in papa's firm and Loy as a party girl working with a gigolo to grab her fortune.

After she and her friends / roommates / dance partners (Da Brat and Tia Texada) are soon offered a gig as back - up singers to a shockingly untalented dance artist, Billie's soaring voice draws the attention of DJ Julian «Dice» Black (British actor Max Beesley, called on to bark his lines in a bad New Yawk accent and flash as much flesh as Carey), who offers her his services as producer.

Crazy Heart Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: Best known as The Dude to Lebowski lovers worldwide, Jeff Bridges delivers one of his most memorable performances as Bad Blake, the hard - living country singer stumbling toward a shot at redemption in writer - director Scott Cooper's promising feature debut.

My apologies for the bad singing, as I am not a singer but a physics teacher, but it just makes it even more fun for the students.

Sheet music and songsheets for OHP are also supplied Cast Princess Siesta, Boy servant (Robert) Queen, King, Countryman, Countryman's Daughter Countryman's Wife, Countryman's Son (He turns into a Prince) Fairy Nuff, Airy Fairy, Fairy Liquid, Tooth Fairy, Wicked Fairy, Henry (Wicked fairy's bodyguard) Magic Frog, Cook, Prince Kip of Insomnia Vicar Narrator, Usher Singers Non-speaking parts: Spider 1, Spider 2 Optional extras: servants, ghost (s), mouse, beetle, woodlouse, ladybird, moth, bedbug, stray cat, acrobats, extra «bad fairies», party guests Audio List (supplied as mp3's) 01 Welcome song (Vocals) 02 English Country Garden (Vocals) 03 Lavender Blue (Vocals) 04 Lucky Lucky Me (Vocals) 05 You Can Count on Me (Vocals) 06 Something is Amiss (Vocals) 06 Something is Amiss (Vocals) 07 Everything is Going Well (Vocals) 08 Magic Lullaby (Vocals) 09 Overgrown (Music) 10 Wedding Waltz (Vocals) 11 Acrobats (Music) 12 Here Comes the Bride (Music) 13 Curtain Calls (Music) plus 13 backing tracks to sing along to

Some of the world's most distinguished scientists, such as S. Fred Singer, Richard Lindzen, and Freeman Dyson, have been accused of dishonesty, incompetence, and worse.

Commenting on the other benefits of driving, the singer — who was in the front row at a number of London Fashion Week shows this summer — admits: «I know this sounds bad, but the car is the best place to listen to new demos you've recorded because you can play them as loud as you want and by yourself.