1. You can't focus when you actually get a chance to sing the melody because your mind is totally blown.
2. Composers literally don't give a fuck about you.
3. Your part is either the same note over and over again...
4. ... Or ridiculously, unnecessarily complex.
5. Sometimes, you're nothing more than glorified accompaniment.
6. Sometimes your part is so low it's not even worth it for the composer to use the treble clef.
7. When you finally get a chance to show off your sweet low notes, they hit with a quadruple piano.
Low notes are not fun with this dynamic. #altoproblems
Your mouth is open, but no sound is coming out.
8. The one song that totally captures your pain HAS to have a high C.
View this video on YouTube
Just transpose it down a step so you only have to sing a Bb.
9. People constantly attempt to crush your ego by telling you your part's not important.
This piece would be NOTHING without the inner voices.
10. You waste a lot of time praying for Disney to add a little vocal diversity.
11. But you still blow your vocal cords out trying to hit the high notes in "Let It Go."
12. People expect you to be able to sight read well in alto clef "because you're an alto."
Sight singing assignments in alto clef seem unnecessarily mean.
Honestly, this clef shouldn't even exist.
13. You no longer have eardrums after the alto next to you tries to warm up with the sopranos.
14. You hate yourself for sometimes wishing you were a legit soprano.
Wishing I was a soprano right now #altoproblems
Don't fall for it! Have some mezzo pride!
15. You have to tailor your headshots for the only three roles you can get: witches, bitches, and britches.
At least you're simultaneously hot enough to be a witch and adorable enough to be a little boy.
16. And on the off chance you do get to play a love interest, you're definitely not going to get the guy.
17. ... So you pretty much have to be your own MCM.
18. You run out of breath trying to project over the two sopranos who are covering your entire section.
19. You spend way too much time scouring the library for the middle and low key versions of books.
20. You have seriously limited song choices compared to everyone else.
21. You go a little cross-eyed when your part goes below the tenors or above the sopranos.
Voice-crossing with other sections be like
Pretty much the musical equivalent of a traffic jam.
22. You have to control your rage when the director doesn't warm up your lower range.
But at the end of the day, you know you're the superior voice part.
