Sentences with phrase «bad singer»

Tim Falconer is the author of Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music, which the Globe and Mail named to The Globe 100 Best Books of 2016.

Now, when a serious actor like Robert DeNiro is one of the most reliable dumb - comedy draws in Hollywood, Beatty and Hoffman wouldn't be pilloried for starring in a silly musical about two hilariously bad singer - songwriters.

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.

The true story of the most famous bad singer of all time really comes to life on Blu - ray.

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

«You're a bad singer!»

I am a daughter, a mom, a sister, a tax payer, a dog walker, a garbage taker - outer, a complainer of heat waves (and cold snaps), a tryin» - not - to - eat - too - many - carbs - except - this - one last - plate - of - wings - and - fries and... a prayer, a reader of scripture, a tither, a really bad singer of really good blue grass gospel music, a cryin» - every - time - I - take - communion - and - sometimes - when - I - preach kind of gal.

@Arsenal Who's the best and the worst singer at Arsenal?

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

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

Or it could be a difficulty with motor control — bad singers couldn't control their vocal cords enough to duplicate what they heard.

«I say Rebecca Black is a genius and that anybody telling her she's cheesy is full of shit,» said the uber pop star about the viral video sensation that many critics dubbed the «worst singer in the world.»

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

Here are three men, each one a worse singer than the next, and they're singing like their lives might end tomorrow.

Steve Zahn and Sam Rockwell are bad singers mistaken for safecrackers Mark Ruffalo and someone else by Paul Giamatti and his gangster boss, Michael Lerner.

Arguably that debate has been settled for awhile, but here she gets to embrace an entirely unique challenge — trying to sound like a worse singer than she really is.

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

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) may sound like a one - joke contrivance — a rich, generous, arts - loving heiress in 1940s New York City gives private recitals to a select group of high society insiders who never let on to the oblivious woman that she is quite possibly the worst singer to ever trod a stage — but it is both a true story and an unexpectedly tender, touching movie.

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

The tie - in is Florence Foster Jenkins: The Inspiring True Story of the World's Worst Singer, Nicholas Martin and Jasper Rees (Macmillan / St.

Not exact matches

I once said an Alabamian friend of mine: your life's so good that the worst problem you have is the MTV singer's crotch.

While Singer believes that killing a three - day - old is no worse than killing a late - term fetus, he does believe in drawing the line somewhere.

Almost every popular evangelical program includes interviews with persons who have made it — a singer or a well - known businessman who describes how bad things were until God was brought into the picture, but how now all is wonderful, give God the glory.

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.

Editor's Note: CNN's Gabe LaMonica recently spoke with Greg Graffin the lead singer of Bad Religion.

You'd think that Christian music singer Brandon Heath hardly ever has a bad day at work.

Best singer, fastest player, worst dancer — which Everton teammates did Idrissa Gana Gueye, Yannick Bolasie and Oumar Niasse nominate for their SportPesa «alternative» end of season awards?

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.

Why should having a beer belly be so much worse than having humongous hips, thunder thighs, a well - padded bottom, loglike arms, or an opera - singer bosom?

Then there is one species of bird — the starling — in which environmental estrogens have an especially surprising effect: Exposed male starlings turn into better singers, duping female starlings into choosing mates that may be bad bets.

The evolutionary biologist and lead singer for the punk rock band Bad Religion explains why there are no good songs about science and how evolution can be a guide to life

To coincide with his darkly twisted «frat party on the beach» theme, Jacobs cast a few unexpected bad - girl party - scene regulars to walk alongside the standard strutters: Terry Richardson cohort Charlotte Free (almost unrecognizable with her shock of pink hair hidden beneath that chopped - up wig), model - celeb spawn Georgia May Jagger, singer Sky Ferreira, and that lil» nymphet we've missed so sorely all season — Cara Delevingne, who apparently flew in from London to take part in the show.

Don't feel bad if you don't know who she is, I didn't either (she is an American singer and actor).

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.

Taylor Swift sings about «Bad Blood», but songs like Shake It Off prove the country music singer's on everyone's hot list.

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A small town music teacher invites a bad - boy country singer to perform at her town's annual Strawberry Festival, and together they discover the power of dreams in this Hallmark Channel original film.

Breaking Bad vet Banks hold nothing back in making Pappy McAllan a thoroughly despicable figure, but the quiet revelation here is the deglamorized Blige, a model of understatement and careworn dignity in perhaps the singer's most demanding dramatic role to date.

Through all of it, Vega — a singer and performance artist whose advice Lelio initially sought in devising his story — makes an indelible impression, absorbing each sling and arrow with a fatigued air of having suffered worse, and hoping for better.

It's too bad this film didn't really hit it on the big screen but the performances are superb and you have to love Hayden's voice - she's a great singer.

The show's finale unites a colorful assortment of singers and craftsmen, including the two surviving members of an ill - fated family act (Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep), a cowboy duo (Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly) prone to bad jokes and winking double entendres, Lindsay Lohan's death - obsessed chanteuse / poet, and Keillor, who plays himself, a role for which he's uniquely suited.

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.»

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Lead singer James Hetfield has chosen to present a classic, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, while guitarist Kirk Hammett, one of the world's foremost horror aficionados, will offer up Dracula vs. Frankenstein.