Sentences with phrase «of bad singers»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Jenkins was a real person, a rich socialite and music lover who lived in New York in the early 20th century and enjoyed performing amateur operatics, which is all well and good, except she was a terrible singer: always off - key, probably tone - deaf, and worst of all, she chose really difficult pieces to sing that would have challenged even talented professionals.

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.

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

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.

Plus director Bryan Singer «s last film, «Jack The Giant Slayer,» was by some distance the worst of his career, and early marketing materials made it look like «DOFP» had a tiny scope that belied its budget (the second most expensive in Fox's history, after «Avatar «-RRB-, and made it seem like some kind of mid -»90s vision of the future.

Worse yet, no matter how hard she tries, Mbatha - Raw simply lacks the big voice of a great singer.

Bad news for fans of Anna Paquin's Rogue: in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, «X-Men: Days of Future Past» director Bryan Singer revealed that the only sequence Paquin appeared in during the film has been cut during editing.

Then the show continued with the worst performers battling it out each week thinking that they were fighting for the title of America's best singer.

American Idol this is not, but it is a look into the life of one of the worst opera singers to ever live, a woman who many believed had no right being on stage driven by her own confidence and the politeness of those closest to her.

It's not the worst superhero movie of the year, but the tragedy is that Singer used to reliably make the best.

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).

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.

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.

Country music singer Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) once had a hit song but now languishes in obscurity, playing dive bars and bowling alleys, drinking constantly and bitter about the success of his one - time protégé Tommy Sweet (Colin Farrell).

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Hollywood has only grown more dependent on these big blockbusters, which are rarely ever directed by women and people of color, in part because studios keep rewarding filmmakers — like Singer — known for erratic workplace behavior or worse.

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.

Meryl Streep looks to nab her 30th Golden Globe nomination playing a singer who was considered the worst vocalist of her time.

Mike Smith: Please tell me that Tony Goldwyn isn't really that bad of a singer.

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.

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

I live only a few kms away from Pfaffenhausen, was quiet often there, they are a wonderful team producing excellent quality and the Rufs itself are such friendly people, but that doesn t make the work of Singer a bad one.