Worst Subway Station Performers…
1:40 am, 2nd Mar 2009
The E/V/6 Train platforms at 51st/53rd and Lexington CONSISTENTLY have the worst subway performers EVER. I thought the worst was an early-twenties blonde chick w/ a PA and mic singing Madonna’s “Get Into the Groove” like a 5-year-old kid trying to sound like Michael Jackson at the family Christmas party. Terrible.
Then there was the most un-swinging “jazz” trumpeter ever.
Finally, trying to get down from my part-time job on the UES to my other part-time job in Soho last week, there was an NYU-looking kid w/ huge ironic glasses playing terribly with a girl (wannabe fuck buddy?) sitting next to him, bobbing her head in mock enthusiasm and adding random non-harmonizing “oohs” and “aahs”. I thought it couldn’t get any worse when they launched into a pained rendition of “Piano Man” by Billy Joel. Even the “la-di-dee-das” didn’t sound right. I wanted to kill myself.
Terrible. TERRIBLE musicians.
On the flip side, there are sometimes REALLY effing good musicians that make your day: the virtuoso Chinese dulcimer player in Times Square, the hipster who somehow manages to drag a console piano down into the West 4th Station, and the jazz trio lead by a flugel horn/trumpet player at Columbus Circle. It’s so hit or miss, but the awfulness of the Lexington station makes me long for a good mariachi band….
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The E/V/6 Train platforms at 51st/53rd and Lexington CONSISTENTLY have the worst subway performers EVER. I thought the worst was an early-twenties blonde chick w/ a PA and mic singing Madonna’s “Get Into the Groove” like a 5-year-old kid trying to sound like Michael Jackson at the family Christmas party. Terrible.
Then there was the most un-swinging “jazz” trumpeter ever.
Finally, trying to get down from my part-time job on the UES to my other part-time job in Soho last week, there was an NYU-looking kid w/ huge ironic glasses playing terribly with a girl (wannabe fuck buddy?) sitting next to him, bobbing her head in mock enthusiasm and adding random non-harmonizing “oohs” and “aahs”. I thought it couldn’t get any worse when they launched into a pained rendition of “Piano Man” by Billy Joel. Even the “la-di-dee-das” didn’t sound right. I wanted to kill myself.
Terrible. TERRIBLE musicians.
On the flip side, there are sometimes REALLY effing good musicians that make your day: the virtuoso Chinese dulcimer player in Times Square, the hipster who somehow manages to drag a console piano down into the West 4th Station, and the jazz trio lead by a flugel horn/trumpet player at Columbus Circle. It’s so hit or miss, but the awfulness of the Lexington station makes me long for a good mariachi band….
I’m waiting for the mariachi guys to sue me for referencing them in my act. That’s assuming enough people would ever see my act for it to get back to them, or that they would see it themselves.
Whaaaaaat. Madonna is my favorite subway performer.
madonna girl is one of the best subway performers.
your taste is boring…