The name is Courtney. I am a singer. I am an actor. I am an aspiring Music major. I think that is all of the exciting things about me.
I suppose the next step is to tell you what's up. Why the flip is Courtney bored enough to write a blog? First off, I actually throughly enjoy writing and in all honesty, this is distracting me from my other duties as a student; homework. Just don't tell my mom. Second, I'm not bored, I'm frustrated.
I used to be such an open person and some ways I still am but its totally different now. I used to just speak my mind and whoever would listen to me, I would share my life story. I didn't stop being that person, I stopped having friends that I could talk openly to and that cared to hear every little detail of my life. Here is where my blog comes in. I am so sick of holding in all of these feelings and all of these things I can't say anymore. So WELCOME!
I am just going to take a long shot guess that this will probably be my rant blog. And today, has been a day worthy of ranting.
Singers. /sg;o wt;iuyw t/outw. Those are my feelings.... Or what my forehead felt like saying... Take your pick. I am so frustrated with singers. To be more specific, I'm frustrated about a certain singer. SOPRANOS. Today set me on the edge. I'm one of the fortunate people on this world that knows how my voice works and how to work all parts of my voice (my soprano voice, alto voice and even my tenor voice. I was blessed with the gift of having a 4 and a half octave range). So this leaves me in the awkward position of when a director asks for a group of people to split into parts to sing, I ask what part needs me. This usually means I get shoved to the alto section. For some reason, every choir always needs more altos. One time, I was in a group and I asked what part they needed me to sing and there were literally 3 sopranos to 12 altos and I still sang alto. Despite asking what part needs me, I always wish that maybe the 1st Sopranos need me. But never failing, I am shoved to a supporting part. No matter how much I try to prove to my directors that I am capable of the high range, they all use the same excuse, "We need strong singers down on the lower lines." BULL. I know girls that are much stronger then me in there voices. And they get sent to the top. I'm flattered that you think I'm such a "strong singer" but in all honesty, if the people you put as Sopranos are stronger singers, why don't they ever sing the bottom lines? Give some of us aspiring musicians the chance to sing out. Maybe its just me but I am so fed up with hearing the "Strong singer" gig. Its like the cliches of a breakup: "It's not you, its me." "I think we need to talk." Blah blah blah. I have had the strong singer thing pulled so many times that I can just guess what a director will say to me when he walks over and says, "Hey Courtney, could I talk to you?"
Also, I just have one question for you sopranos, SINCE WHEN CAN YOU NOT SING AN A BELOW MIDDLE C?! I just don't understand how in warm-ups you can sing all the way down there and then pull the "I can't sing anything below a middle C." WHATEVER! If you can't you drive me insane. At least try for pete sakes! There are very few people in this world that can't sing below a middle C and to you I apologize. But to the rest of you who think you can't, I'm watching you. To you, Did you know people tend to talk on a pitch range from A3 to C4? Ya... I don't understand you.
So I guess with this blog, people will say that I am just a jealous Alto... and I totally am. I think every alto has a little jealously towards sopranos... and if you don't, its towards tenors.
Case Closed.
Love,
Courtney
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