I play guitar and there are plenty of songs that I actually can’t play (because I lack the skill/proficiency) but wish I could. Like, I can’t even play those songs badly. Singing is different than playing an instrument, I think, because anyone with a voice can sing any song, even if they do so poorly. Today I’m picking a song that I wish I could sing well.
I have a low-alto singing voice. My vocal range is not too shabby, comparatively speaking, but the higher I get in that range the more I tend to cheat and rely on “belting.” That is to say, I don’t have as much control in my higher registers as I do in my lower ones. But even with the cheat-belting, there comes a point when there are notes I just can’t reliably hit without switching to falsetto, which almost always sounds awful when I do it.
My pick for today is the Pink and Nate Ruess duet “Just Give Me A Reason.” I can sing Ruess’ part, I can even sing it well, and I can do a dead-to-rights Ruess impression. But I really wish I could sing Pink’s part all the way through, especially during the bridge. Here it is:
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