{"id":659,"date":"2020-09-28T17:04:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T01:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=659"},"modified":"2020-09-28T17:04:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T01:04:30","slug":"maybe-youre-singing-the-wrong-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/28\/maybe-youre-singing-the-wrong-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe you\u2019re singing the wrong song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I came across this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jedoArOy0pE\">YouTube video of Shaheen Jafargholi<\/a>, a young Welsh boy, auditioning for Britain\u2019s Got Talent. He starts to sing Valerie by Amy Winehouse and sings it for about 15 seconds before host Simon Cowell cuts him off and asks him to stop. He tells him, \u201cYou got this really wrong.\u201d Simon continues, though, and asks the boy, \u201cWhat do you sing apart from that?\u201d The boy says, \u201cWho\u2019s Loving You by Michael Jackson.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDo you want to give that a go?\u201d Simon asks. The boy says, \u201cOkay.\u201d He then proceeds to nail it, gaining a standing ovation from all three judges, including Simon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a shame it would have been if that boy wasn\u2019t asked to sing a different song.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next time you feel like you can\u2019t sing, but you like singing, try singing a different song.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world is waiting to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this YouTube video of Shaheen Jafargholi, a young Welsh boy, auditioning for Britain\u2019s Got Talent. He starts to sing Valerie by Amy Winehouse and sings it for about 15 seconds before host Simon Cowell cuts him off and asks him to stop. He tells him, \u201cYou got this really wrong.\u201d Simon continues, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/28\/maybe-youre-singing-the-wrong-song\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maybe you\u2019re singing the wrong song&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}