Well!
I started on one of those "Which #{movie} character are you?" quizzes on some site or other.
Got stuck on question #2: "Which is your favorite song to sing along to?"
Only one I'd even heard of was by the Beatles, and it's not exactly on my list of favorites.
Yeah, there are things I've been known to sing along with... they generally fall in one or more of these categories:
- Obscure; maybe a few thousand people would be familiar with it at all
- Older than I am
- In a furrin language
- Most likely to be encountered at a science-fiction convention
- Most likely to be encountered on Dr. Demento
- Most likely to be encountered in an opera house
- Tells a story in a reasonably comprehensible fashion (given the linguistic and cultural background)
Any one of which immediately filters out just about anything with the slightest prospect of being on the charts.
But I will sing along with bits of Siegfried. Or "The Ballad of Transport 18."
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