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Kitty Pryde-Barton ([personal profile] throughaphase) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2014-01-26 09:59 pm
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Self-Expression- Monday- 4th period

Today the Danger Shop was done up more or less to look like Caritas. There were a couple changes: you couldn't get alcohol at the bar because hello, class, and the zombies were gone, replaced by a much more normal karaoke system.

Yep. Karaoke.

"I see everybody made it through the weekend," Kitty greeted them. "Some of you may be regretting that because today we're doing karaoke. For those of you who don't know, that means you find a song you want to sing, get up onstage, and you can read the lyrics off a prompter while you sing with background music. I'm going to give you guys time to figure out your songs- I tried to get songs from as far back as I could so if you're time displaced you should be able to find something- and then you all have to take a turn. It doesn't matter if you're good or not. Just find something that you can have fun with and make it your own."
wildandbrave: (Laughing)

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[personal profile] wildandbrave 2014-01-27 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Cosette Fauchelevent
tigerundercover: (blonde - unimpressed)

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[personal profile] tigerundercover 2014-01-27 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Raven Darkholme
voiceoverdue: (radio!)

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[personal profile] voiceoverdue 2014-01-28 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Cecil Palmer

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[identity profile] pasunereveuse.livejournal.com 2014-01-28 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Celia Bowen who was swamped at work yesterday omg
pursuedthestars: ([neu] getting worried)

Re: Pick your songs

[personal profile] pursuedthestars 2014-01-27 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Jim was going to be his normal, confident self while he looked for songs to sing even if he really, really didn't want to sing.

No one better videotape this thing.

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[identity profile] notacokeperson.livejournal.com 2014-01-27 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah, this was just terrible.

Except really, really not.

Karina was already humming to herself as she went through the catalog and tried to narrow down her options.
justbeingbay: ([neu] lots of hair)

Re: Pick your songs

[personal profile] justbeingbay 2014-01-27 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Bay poked through the catalog half-heartedly. She was not a great singer, and she was not in favor of public humiliation. She focused on finding something pretty that she wouldn't embarrass herself with.

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[identity profile] livebytherules.livejournal.com 2014-01-27 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Talk about something Will absolutely did not want to do...

He sighed and paged through the catalog, trying to find something short that he could mumble and get through without too much pain.
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Re: Pick your songs

[personal profile] wildandbrave 2014-01-27 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
As it happened, Cosette had a good singing voice, but even if she didn't she wouldn't have been shy about singing in front of other people.

The challenge would just be finding something she knew, or could figure out easily enough.

Re: Pick your songs

[identity profile] nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com 2014-01-27 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, Eleanor was going to take a moment to be grateful that Kitty had included some blues classics from the 1920s. That meant she could just sing something Grace had sung for her, which seemed less intimidating.
voiceoverdue: (radio!)

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[personal profile] voiceoverdue 2014-01-28 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Cecil wasn't really sure what he wanted to sing. He could carry a tune, sure, but he was really more into introducing music than producing it. So he sort of flipped through the pages looking for something he knew.
pursuedthestars: ([neu] ayup)

Re: Sing!

[personal profile] pursuedthestars 2014-01-27 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Jim didn't have a great voice but he tried. And he got into it too. Hey, how could you not get into a song by Richard Marx? He'd chosen that intentionally because the lyrics were terrible and he knew anything would make the terrible lyrics better!
justbeingbay: ([neu] eager)

Re: Sing!

[personal profile] justbeingbay 2014-01-27 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're going, I'm going your way...


Okay, Bay picked the song because she knew she could sing at least as well as Audrey Hepburn. She managed it credibly enough and was back in her seat the moment she was done.
wildandbrave: (Stubborn Looking Over Shoulder)

Re: Sing!

[personal profile] wildandbrave 2014-01-27 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)
A karaoke catalog that included an arrangement of Mozart's Te Deum suitable for solo voice not that I can listen to that link right now so la la handwavey was pretty impressive, and convenient, since Cosette was quite familiar with it from the convent school. (Berlioz's Te Deum was more contemporary for her time, but please, as if the order of the Perpetual Adoration thought that version was sacred enough.)

. . . yes, a liturgical piece was the closest thing Cosette knew to popular music, but she sang it well, and sounded like someone who'd sung it often in the past.

Re: Sing!

[identity profile] nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com 2014-01-27 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Eleanor closed her eyes and tried to pretend that all of her classmates weren't watching her as the song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MzU8xM99Uo) started to play.

Once I lived the life of a millionaire
Spending my money, I didn't care
I carried my friends out for a good time
Buying bootleg liquor, champagne and wine


She didn't sing as well as Grace had, or any of the other legends who had covered the song, but she did her best, and that was all anyone could ask of her.