I admire frogs a lot and maybe I sort of like them. How would you feel if your name was always used when referring to something bad, or awfully unpleasant. The frogs don't care, they still sing anyway and they do it with so much zeal that you'd think they're getting paid. I wish I could be as courageous as them whenever someone tells me I have a frog voice anytime I attempt a note and continue singing at the top of my voice.
But I don't blame them though, I really do have a frog voice, I can't hide that fact. But I used to before, until I decided to take my singing professional. So I made a recording of me singing and then played it out loud. I didn't even know when I said the words "ewwww, what a frog voice!". It was a painful discovery and I never sang again after that day, not even when I'm listening to a nice song with my earphones, or even bathing, no... singing is a no go area.
That's why I havn't been part of the #openmic or posting singing videos on #Afri-tunes or an of the few singing community on Hive. But after reading Merit's post about her video making experience and seeing Princessbusayo follow through with her post, I decided to write about my own experience too. We should totally make this a challenge, hehe.
I'm a dancer, and I create content on Instagram and tiktok and I've had a lot of experiences making videos. I'm a good dancer, when you see me dancing the image of a worm that sprinkled with salt comes to mind, yeah I'm that good. Did you see the picture? Well I did and I can't stop laughing at you, you actually thought about that ððð.
Ok, over the years I've been making videos virtually every where. I started of making videos at home, in my house. I'll just call my little sis to come hold the camera for me while I dance. Most of the videos didn't really come out so great because sometimes while she's videoing she'd be having an argument with our mom at the same time or texting back one boy. So the videos mostly had some parts of my head cut-off or the camera would be positioned in a way that I'll look really short. It wasn't that bad though, I still got one or two likes.
Well, I had to leave the house because my dad started to look for every excuse to send me on errands whenever I'm making videos. He'll ask me to go check if the woman who sells provision is open, then when I get back he'll give me the money to go buy whatever he wants and when I'm back his car is parked exactly where I make my videos with all the doors open and then he'll ask me to wash it nicely.
I got out and started to use other places, especially the mall, since it had really great backgrounds and you know, public videos are kind of the in thing now. There was this time that we almost turned the mall into a dance studio and the security wouldn't have it, he chased us around the mall and the safest place I could hide was in the toilet, you know how public toilets are, they always had the best views and I stayed there for almost twenty minutes, quite refreshing.
Another time, I found the right spot to make my videos and after rehearsing the steps for a while, I decided to make recordings. I had to do it over and over again because I was making mistakes still trying to get my head around the routine I learnt, there was always one part that I just couldn't get. I got frustrated, tired, I decided to do one more take and it was going great, I got past that point where I'd been making mistakes and just immediately a funny dressed guy walked passed in front of the camera, can you imagine! He didn't even walk by fast, he did it with so much glamour and style without even saying sorry. I was so pissed that I could have beaten him up but, remember that worm? Yeah, Worms don't really know how to fight.
The one that really got to me was when we were having a group dance and you know how group dances are, they have to sync properly well, if not it'll come out all wrong. So we were having this group dance and it was going wrongly, we had to do it over and over again till we were perfect, while we started recording, a call came in on my phone and it was connected to the bluetooth speaker interrupting our dance. I went on to pick up the call only to hear a bot talking on the other end, everyone just looked at me like...wtf!
It's happened so many times than I can count and it always happens at the wrong time. The last time we had a shoot, it was actually a sturdy dance shoot, those Uk dance moves where you actually go down a lot and stuff. We did everything right and then we were all set to shoot, we did the whole going down thing, the flippers flipped, then we did the pin drop and every thing only to realize that the videographer wasn't even recording at all, I almost died! But I didn't, I just woke to painful pains on my laps and legs.
If you ask me, If I'd have to choose between being a frog and a worm I think I'll choose the latter because worms are...I was going to say cute but..no.. worms are warm, and they can dance, hehe.
Thank you for reading this, if you enjoyed it or it connected to you in a way, I invite you to drop a comment, I'll be glad to reply âĪïļ
