1. Singing "Hey there, lonely girl" to a random woman in the supermarket.
4. Some nice young people harmonize singing "Landslide" quite sincerely.
2. The Drew Barrymore Effect. (If you watched #5 on the July 19th post, you'll get this.)
3. A man dresses for summer, Regency style.
(Just talk about these videos in the comments. If you want to rag on TikTok, there's a specific post about that: here. This post is purely for the enjoyment of videos, not discussion of the platform that happens to host them.)
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With all the layers of the Regency style, he would melt in the Phoenix heat even with the matching fan.
Love the guy singing to the woman in the store. I've always wanted to do that, but I cannot sing and I'm somewhat married. It would be an odd thing to do. That guy had a great voice.
Also the young people harmonizing were nice. I was looking at their faces as they sang "and I'm getting older too." They're college aged. They've got it all ahead of them. I wonder if they feel just a whisper of what is coming when they sing that line.
The Fleetwood Mac singing was okay, but I still want to see the signing.
"Lonely girl" illustrates a danger in TikTokking. It's not just the Chicoms you have to worry about.
I get cravat mixed up with gavotte.
The harmonizing was sweet. Nice end to a difficult day.
For a while in college I shared an apartment with a guy who wanted to make it as a singer. He was constantly singing "The Impossible Dream", constantly. Not only was he a bad singer, he was a total douchebag. All if which is a long winded way of saying that my instinctive reaction to #1 was to make a fist and want to hit somebody.
The Fleetwood Mac singing was okay, but I still want to see the signing.
I've started watching videos on ASL. If I actually stick with it and learn, I'll have to do a Tik Tok of me signing along with this video for you. Hey, it could happen, in spite of all my other begun but not completed projects.
I liked the Regency one. I've seen videos discussing women's fashion from that era (which I like), but hadn't seen much about men's fashion.
Landslide by a landslide
The Landslide one made me think of Maddie Poppe signing that on American Idol.
Temujin, your life is so interesting.
Sorry. Most white guys shouldn’t be singing Motown.
Love the man who dresses Regency style. I try to wear as much linen as I can in the summer and that all looked quite lovely.
I like Mr. Regency.
Does anyone else think they recognize the supermarket in Lonely Girl — maybe the Publix in Captiva?
The Drew Barrymore Effect is waaaaay better than Drew Barrymore herself.
Regency one was excellent.
I didn’t get the Drew Barrymore effect reference, but still thought it was funny.
#1, for the boyfriend. He handles a (who knows how dangerous) loon more or less insulting his girlfriend, with grace and finality. I'd like him on my team.
Landslide was released in 1975. Gotta be 25 years before any of those kids was born. I'm trying to imagine myself in 1977 singing songs from 1922.
https://playback.fm/charts/top-100-songs/1922
They do a great job, by the way.
I laughed til I cried w/the fools’ parody in the rain.
It made me think we’re all going crazy- the things we do for attention. Or some do.
All good picks.
One thing- in HS our music teacher taught us to put our tongues behind our teeth so the T sounds weren’t piercingly obvious. It’s been something I’ve noticed ever since. In Madrigal, we were taught to smile at e/other as if in pleasant conversation- these kids look inward- maybe it’s a listening mechanism for them. The harmony is beautiful.
I found the Regency Man donning all his layers of apparel very soothing...maybe it was the music and his gentle voice. I did smile at his references to how "cooling" all the linen fabric garments are. Ha, no amount of moisture wicking could make those layers cool in the heat and humidity of an east TN humid summer.
I love, love, love the office kids in the rain.
Love Regency costume guy, but it makes me wonder if folks back then were OK with all the wrinkles?
The Landslide harmonizers were quite good, but how on earth was the girl on the left singing lying on her stomach?
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