It shouldn’t make sense, but at the same time it does. Why did the numa numa thing get so big? I guess because it’s so catchy.

This is something I found off the net (of course) and wanted to share anyways. I’ve been neglecting this blog…not good. Heheh. Anyways, I hope you enjoy that video.

If ever you wanted to sing along, here are the lyrics. Now I know what you’re thinking, this is a pretty cheesy thing to do, woman. But actually, I heard of this song before it became so big, and I actually like it. The lyrics are good. So here I offer you the Romanian and English translated lyrics to “Dragostea Din Tei”, more popularly known as the “Numa Numa” song.

Lyrics from: Catteacorner.com

Recently I’ve been looking around in these sites that give tips on how to sing. These people were supposedly professionals, and yeah it was obvious that they knew what they were talking about. But I found it interesting that most of them said basically the same stuff. Why so interesting? Well, they’ve obviously all come from the classic professional singing “school of thought” from all the terms and metaphors they use (imagine an egg at the back of your throat, or a tube around your belly etc etc) heheh. Those are the technical stuff, despite how they explained it. The “basic” stuff you have to get before even thinking of becoming a singer.

And then there’s my grandmother. I doubt she was ever taught those things (in fact if I ask her about them, I imagine she’d give me a puzzled look and laugh). But boy, can she sing. She doesn’t perform, but when it’s quiet and she’s busy in the kitchen or the garden, I sometimes catch her singing, and she can really sing.

There’s a difference between being able to hold a note and really knowing how to sing. So much that when a situation calls for it, someone can say of you that you’re a “singer”. Oddly enough, for all the technical stuff out there that some people pay a lot of money to learn, there are just some people who get these things naturally. Why? I suppose that some people just take to it easier, from exposure or for whatever other reason. My dad told me that singing should be a natural thing, and I guess for some people, the more they concern themselves with the “technical” stuff, the more they forget about all the things that should be natural to them in terms of singing. But I’m not a good singer, just some things I’ve observed I guess.