I'm going through a public singing phase at the moment. Not in a torch-singing-in-smoky-bars kinda way, or even a karaoke way - just in the sense that when I am walking home with a full bag of groceries or checking the mailbox, I suddenly feel compelled to break into song.
I've been caught out a few times. Walking home in the dark last night, singing under my breath, I passed a couple of people smoking out the front, curled languidly against each other on their shadowy front porch. I didn't see them at first, just had the vague sense that someone was watching me, and quickened my pace. When I realised that no-one was following me, I felt slightly foolish. When I realised that a couple of people had just witnessed me warbling Fiona Apple's "Paper Bag" and swinging my handbag in a vaguely choreographed manner...
I'm not sure where the urge to sing on street corners comes from, but I find I'm indulging this particular whim a lot more these days than I did a couple of years ago. It makes the trip home from the supermarket much less tedious, and sometimes I just want to sing. I don't know. Do other people do this? Is it common?
And if you run into me in the street, will you join me in some sort of ridiculous duet?
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I'd definitely join you in a duet, I sing Paper Bag (etc) quite frequently.
I noticed myself quietly humming in the supermarket the other day. Made me wonder how often I do it...
(Funnily enough I queried on my blog a few days back as to whether anyone else felt the urge to encourage singalongs in quiet bank queues, to suddenly dance when waiting for a train, and the like. Apparently a little normal, for some...)
Yes, yes, yes. I'd probably sing a Bobby Darin number, like Don't Rain on My Parade, or something theatrical.
YES.
ESPECIALLY Paper Bag.
Remember our duet on the steps of the beach-hut?
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