The sound of your voice doesn’t signify if you are good or bad at singing…
When I sang ‘Every Little Cell’ on Facebook at the beginning of 2020, millions of people saw it. On Instagram, hundreds of people all around the world started singing it in their Instagram stories. It was incredible, brilliant. It was sung in dozens of different languages and continues to be sung publicly on Instagram stories almost daily to this day. I know this because people tag me in their posts everyday. (Which I luuuurve🧡)
But alongside this mass singing experience I received hundreds of messages from people saying, “Love what you do. I wish I could sing this. But I could never, ever, in a million years, sing this online or sing this in front of people. I could never sing out loud.”
Hundreds of people told me they don’t even sing out loud in front of their children, and the two main reasons for this were: they are too embarrassed and ashamed of their voice, and that they are nervous they will teach their kids to sing out of tune.
This is desperately sad, though it’s no one’s fault. This is a deeply conditioned, societal problem that has escalated over years and years. We continue to be the victim of this kind of thinking.
So many people in this world don’t often or can’t sing to their children, at all!
There are generations of people who don’t know nursery rhymes or lullabies, and weren’t exposed to songs as children. It’s a really ingrained, sad reflection of a cultural fallacy that has been passed down modern (Western) generations.
✨That some people CAN sing, and some people CAN’T✨
Research shows us that experiencing music refers to making it, listening to it, or even thinking about it.
Something we ALL do. Every human does this.
There is no mention in that research that says ‘but this isn’t true if you’re out of tune’.
The sound or pitch of your voice doesn’t signify whether you are good or bad at singing.
✨It signifies that you are a singer.✨
And your children need singing parents, because it will give them permission to be singing children.
One of the greatest regulatory tools their little nervous systems could ever want for - the act of singing.🧡
