1. When you find a new song you're dying to work on, but you need to get your voice teacher on board:
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I could totally play this character, right? Right?
2. When you try singing a song that is tragically out of your range:
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Don't strain, don't strain, don't strain!
3. When you forget the words to your song:
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Just stay in the moment, dammit.
4. When you are asked to sight-read:
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Ahh, shit.
5. When you finally hit the big note you've been working on:
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"Broadway, here I come!"
6. When you try to clean out your binders of sheet music:
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Must. Keep. It. All.
7. When it's allergy season so you can't sing without getting a gunk ball in your throat:
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What the phlegm was that?
8. When you hear an old recording of yourself singing:
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Who let me leave the house sounding like that?
9. When your voice teacher has you sing through a straw:
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Massage those cords!
10. When you know damn well you need to practice:
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Oh no, I'm just so busy!
11. When you realize you accidentally ate dairy before needing to sing:
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Dammit, I ate cheese again, didn't I?
12. When you take that first sip of Throat Coat tea:
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I hate it, but I love it.
13. When you hear someone "screlting" with all their might:
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Say it with me now: "It's okay to mix."
14. When you turn a note you can't reach into an acting moment:
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Sorry, I just got so caught up in my feelings.
15. When you take that first hit from your steamer or vaporizer:
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I am so badass.
16. When your non-singer friend begs you to do karaoke:
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How about you do it?
17. When it's obvious you haven't practiced:
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Wait, what was that interval? My bad, my bad.
18. When you need to ground your breath, so you end up doing ridiculous poses on the floor:
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You better engage that diaphragm!
19. When the song you hate the most is the one that keeps getting stuck in your head:
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Is there an off switch?! Make it stop!
20. When you curate the perfect sing-along playlist for your next car trip:
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I am the main character.
21. When you hear a doorbell or clock chime and can't resist harmonizing:
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I guess I'm just quirky like that.
22. Finally, when some asshat tries to argue that performers have it easy:
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Don't start with me, sweetie. I will end you.