Friday, January 29, 2021

“In My Room” Again

Performing “In My Room’
Diane commented on my In My Room post, “I saw you perform “In My Room live at that ball. You were great.”

The “ball” Diane was referring to was my support groups' annual banquet in March 2012.

After dinner, there were awards and the annual Follies. I usually lipsynced a song or two during the Follies, but that year,  instead of lipsyncing I decided to sing The Beach Boys’ song “In My Room.

I own The Beach Boys’ Stack-O-Tracks album, which contains the instrumental tracks (no vocals) to 15 of their hits including In My Room, so I had the perfect musical accompaniment to my not-so-perfect singing voice.

I copied the song onto my iPod and began practicing during my daily commute. After a few days of that, I concluded that singing that song with my inadequate voice would bore the audience, so I decided to change the lyrics to make it more interesting.

After a few writing attempts, I came up with new lyrics and I practiced every day even during my drive to the banquet that night. But as I sat waiting for my turn to perform, I began to get stage fright. Going over the lyrics in my head, they suddenly did not sound right. I was close to breaking out in a cold sweat when I was called me up to the front of the dance floor to perform.

I pulled myself together and was ready to give it a go, but then there was a malfunction with the DJ's equipment. She could not get audio from the track I had given her and suggested using the karaoke version of the song, which she had on hand.

I was unsure about using the karaoke version, but I had no other choice, so being a trooper, I said, “On with the show.” But then she discovered the error of her ways and got my track to work. I was relieved and sang my heart out with the following lyrics:

    There’s a place where I can go and try on women’s clothes,
    In my room,
    In my room.

    In this world I wear a bra and fishnet pantyhose,
    In my room,
    In my room.

    Do my nails, wear high heels, even shave my back,
    Do my hair up and my makeup, I’ll wear basic black.

    Now it’s dark and I can sneak out dressed just like my Mom,
    From my room,
    From my room.

I got laughs from the audience after singing the very first line. That knocked the stage fright out of me and I received a nice applause at the end.



Wearing JustFab boots
Wearing JustFab boots


Dávid Hartl femulates Kylie Minogue on Slovakian television's Tvoja Tvar Anie Povedome
Dávid Hartl femulates Kylie Minogue on Slovakian television's Tvoja Tvar Anie Povedome
You can view this femulation on YouTube.

13 comments:

  1. Stana , Wow Dávid Hartl is so amazing and just a very pretty lady in this Youtube video femulating .

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  2. I love it! May I steal these lyrics? They are wonderful.

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    1. You are welcome to use my lyrics, Julie!

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  3. the above reminds that: a few years back a guy i knew asked me to do my part-time en femme singing act as the headliner for an amateur comedy night he was hosting. but when i came on stage, i was also being shanghai'd by technical problems regarding my backing tracks.

    as i reported in my "revue-ing the situation" article, i had been exposed for similar reasons before, and on that occasion struggled to retain my composure and improvise my way out of a hole accordingly. so this time i started being somewhat dismissive of the ineptitude going on - partly as a result of being let down and genuinely peeved, but also aware there was an audience that i lay that on thickly to (they say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit ha ha). which the punters thought was part of the act, and heartily laughed along accordingly. i then realised i had them in the palm of my hand, and so the rest of my spot (wwhere i milked that boon accordingly) went down a storm - to the point where afterwards people told me they thought i was a pro!

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  4. Wonderful story Stana, I wish I had been there. The lyrics you wrote are funny and fit just right.

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  5. Bravo. Very creative.

    Angel Amore

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  6. That song always put me in a melancholy mood but I always felt that there was some reason that I shouldn't be listening to it. I had been conditioned to feel guilty whenever I liked or wanted something that women liked or wanted. Perhaps it was more of a sensitive 'girly' song and fed my fear that someone would figure out my feminine proclivity.
    I do love your lyrics, and they will probably run through my head the next time that I hear that song.

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  7. HI
    That was one great evening, I offen think about it.
    Hugs
    Diane

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    1. I always had a great time at our banquets. I miss them so.

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  8. Performing is the thing I have missed most this last year ~ the best quote I have heard is that "2020 was a bad year for show offs"

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  9. It would be easy for me to appear like a woman singing as I have hair past my shoulders, a bust, hips, and a curvy derrière. However I have a bass singing voice. Just think - I could be dolled up looking a woman while singing Johnny Cash's songs such as Rings of Fire and Ghost Riders in the Sky.

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