We now know I have no future in radio

[litlover12]

We know this because the local country station called today and asked me to be their At Work Loyal Listener of the day. (You get interviewed briefly and pick three songs for them to play.) They had contacted me via Facebook, so I knew the call was coming, but for some reason, as soon as it came I morphed into a giggly, high-pitched 16-year-old girl. Then I had half an hour to dread hearing myself sound like a total moron on the radio.

Thank God for the editing process -- they cleaned it all up and took out almost all the giggles. Technology is a wonderful thing!

Here are the songs I picked for my "triple play":

Nerve-racking or not, it was great fun to be a radio programmer for ten minutes. Still, it's probably a good thing that most of my radio work has been behind the scenes.

Comments

[mosinging1986.livejournal.com]

I think that's so cool! I wouldn't be able to do it at all, unless it was something where you could write stuff down ahead of time. My mind goes completely BLANK when I'm nervous! I also hate to hear myself talk on a recording. I sound about 16. Too bad I don't look it.

I am to the point where I can listen to a recording of myself singing, and not cringe. But even that's been only within the last maybe 5-10 years. The trick is convincing your brain that it's someone else entirely.