Yeah, this is hard, and important to making an event like this fun!
A few random thoughts:
In leadership training a warm-up exercise was “I’ll sing this [nonsense tune with lyrics on the whiteboard, similar to singing Game of Thrones tune, but people don’t know the melody already] as loud as I can. Your goal as a group is to be louder than one of me.” The presenter was obviously a loud guy, but it normalized everyone shouting as he would do it first and we’d just aim to match in a way that felt normal even in the corporate office setting. I’ve ran this a few times even with quite strong cultural gaps and nors against me, and it worked every time.
This reminds me of Bring the Light which I assume was a warm up song with simple lyrics, still good meaning and fun to do (remotely at least! :) ). More like that!
Music in clubs is repetitive, and at least Serbian Turbo-Folk has very predictable rhymes—from one line’s content and ending you can guess the likely next line, allowing you to sing along to a song you never heard before!
I assume other cultures have songs like our Bećarac which have one person sing a line, everyone repeats, then they sing another line (usually a subversion of expectations theoug a pun or ending the line without a rhyming word because the rhyming word would have been naughty) and everyone repeats (with laughter). These can be also made on the spot alongside a canon of existing ones and are quite fun—kind of rap battles and disses of old, but much easier to craft.
Anyhow, best of luck, shame I’ll miss it, but I’ll catch it one year!
Yeah, this is hard, and important to making an event like this fun!
A few random thoughts:
In leadership training a warm-up exercise was “I’ll sing this [nonsense tune with lyrics on the whiteboard, similar to singing Game of Thrones tune, but people don’t know the melody already] as loud as I can. Your goal as a group is to be louder than one of me.” The presenter was obviously a loud guy, but it normalized everyone shouting as he would do it first and we’d just aim to match in a way that felt normal even in the corporate office setting. I’ve ran this a few times even with quite strong cultural gaps and nors against me, and it worked every time.
This reminds me of Bring the Light which I assume was a warm up song with simple lyrics, still good meaning and fun to do (remotely at least! :) ). More like that!
Music in clubs is repetitive, and at least Serbian Turbo-Folk has very predictable rhymes—from one line’s content and ending you can guess the likely next line, allowing you to sing along to a song you never heard before!
I assume other cultures have songs like our Bećarac which have one person sing a line, everyone repeats, then they sing another line (usually a subversion of expectations theoug a pun or ending the line without a rhyming word because the rhyming word would have been naughty) and everyone repeats (with laughter). These can be also made on the spot alongside a canon of existing ones and are quite fun—kind of rap battles and disses of old, but much easier to craft.
Anyhow, best of luck, shame I’ll miss it, but I’ll catch it one year!