Funny talent - to include or not?

Sikorsky
Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:27:43 +0000

Off the top of my head, here’s a short list of reasons not to do that:


As Crimsonstained said, it’s not much of a talent. And if it were, it would be one that was of no use whatsoever to any college or university.
It makes you look un-serious without making you look whimsically clever.
I don’t think it’ll be “unique.” It’s pretty hard to be unique when you’re piggy-backing on a very recent pop-culture phenomenon.
It will fall flat. Arranging “Call Me Maybe” for choir and orchestra and then executing the arrangement ([Call Me Maybe - for Choir and Orchestra - YouTube](Call Me Maybe - for Choir and Orchestra - YouTube)) shows how some skilled, talented and imaginative people were able to do something personal and new with something everybody already knew. (And it was unique.) But if they’d just said, “Hey, guys, listen: we can sing ‘Call Me Maybe’!” it would not have demonstrated anything of the kind.