I often tell my patients that dogs don’t think about how well they chew a bone and cats don’t think about how well they scratch a post. they’re just behaviors they have to do to not go bonkers. humans have a fundamental need to create and we literally go crazy if we don’t.
The problem is in your head. If you do it for money you need to be skilled. If you do it for fun, no one cares, go visit a karaoke bar and have fun!
I don’t think this is a gotcha - yes the problem is in their head but it’s not like it manifested there by magic. It’s just another way social media makes us think we have to be perfect at everything for it to be worth showing to the world. Influencers try to simultaneously be relatable but also impossibly perfect, warping your view.
Social media didn’t invent it. When I had art and music class in school, why the fuck did I have to get graded? And why does my bumfuck nowhere local volleyball club have to have aspirations for some regional 17th league and do cardio and drills every meet? I just wanna throw ball sometimes to not get fat.
This is stupid. I’m pretty sure it’s still acceptable to sing badly.
Also im certain that people have wanted to dance and sing well since the dawn of time.
I kinda agree, you are “allowed” to sing or dance or paint just because you want to and not to get good at it, nobody is going to yell at you for that.
But on the other hand I feel like a large amount of people won’t even try something for fear of being bad at it. I don’t think they explicitly think of it this way but “the only point of doing something is to be good at it” is the implication of that attitude.
(That’s not to say that you shouldn’t seek to improve your skills if that’s something you enjoy. Just that ‘trying to get better’ isn’t a prerequisite for doing anything at all. You can have fun and enrich your life while sucking at something.)
People should be allowed to do things they’re bad at, however…
I get annoyed when somebody does something poorly but with confidence, as they can easily convince others that they’re actually good
Easiest example of this is singing. I’m nowhere near perfect, but I’ve had training so I can spot when somebody is making rookie mistakes and the like
Vtubers are the biggest perpetrators here. I think the only ones where I’ve liked their singing are Susui and Calliope. Surprise surprise, they both have backgrounds in music
I don’t fully disagree, but the examples of non-human behavior could hardly have been chosen more poorly.
Birds singing is communication. People don’t get particularly competitive over talking.
Making a beehive is making a home or apartment complex, and we definitely expect a certain amount of skill in that from those who do it. If bees fail or do it poorly, the whole hive dies. Definitely not something they just do casually.
