Sentence examples for badly singing from inspiring English sources

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That's sensible; the longer the performance, the more chance there is to veer off-key, as both Hillary Clinton (who made a campaign joke of a video that caught her badly singing along with "The Star-Spangled Banner")and recently Mitt Romney, who was more earnest than melodious singing "America the Beautiful" in Florida, have discovered on the campaign trail.

We do our best with all the commendable, if tricky, stuff of politics and economics, but what about style and culture even culture at its most popular?Who predicted (we did not) that "Mamma Mia!", with Hollywood stars badly singing Abba hits, would be a smash success this year at the box-office?

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Hurricane-as-metaphor opened up the possibility for a version of Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane" — inert, badly sung, with an ugly keyboard arrangement.

But the best badly sung songs make such objections seem like so much pedantry: it's hard to hold a grudge when Mr. West is howling, "I'm-a play this Vandross/ You gon' take your pants off".

If they actually want to win in the fall, they have to give the vast majority of American voters who don't participate in Republican primaries a reason to vote for Mr. Romney that is more substantial than badly sung lyrics from "America the Beautiful," dog-whistle lines about President Obama's patriotism, and a relentless attack on women's rights.

Nevertheless, the worst that can be said about Bondy's Tosca is that it's an unprepossessing (and not badly sung) incarnation following a classic one.

Now, I know a lot of you DJs and people who (badly) sing R&B at the top of your lungs on the subway are saying, "What's the big deal?

You turn into someone else, learn to speak like them, sing like them, and then to sing badly like them singing badly … Now that's what I call acting.

"But I wanted so badly to sing Ravel's Shéhérazade, and I could tell the elasticity in my voice was disintegrating.

A friend recorded it on his phone and I was shocked to see how idiotic I looked, and to hear how badly I sang.

"I didn't know then and I don't know now how well or how badly I sing and play the piano but I knew that I was a good performer".

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