I just saw quite possibly the stupidest “news story” I’ve seen on the news in a while. It was regarding American Idol and how some of these people may not even realize they suck so bad (my words) because they are literally tone deaf. Apparently there is a real medical condition where some people can’t tell the difference between good and bad singing, some brain condition I don’t recall the name of. They said it only affects 3% or so of people, and get ready for this… there is no cure! EVERYBODY PANIC!!
That got me to thinking, would it really be so bad to not be able to tell the difference between someone that can and can’t sing? Apparently all the American Idol people that think they can sing when they really can’t think they sound better than past Idol winners. If I thought everyone sounded like an amazing singer, I might actually be able to tolerate karaoke nights at the bar, damn my infernal non-tone-deaf ears!
The news report goes on to compare the incurable tone deaf disease to the likes of color blindness. That’s a ridiculous statement for a couple reasons. How is having a disease that makes you think everyone is an accomplished singer bad? Well, unless you are a record label exec or something, and personally I think a few of those may exist…
Second, color blindness is much worse. For starters you can’t fly a plane if you are color blind, and that sucks way more than thinking the drunk girl singing karaoke is actually good. There are definitely times I’d like to be able to say “I loved your rendition of ‘Loveshack’” and actually mean it.
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