December 27, 2011

Tattoos in a Choir? No way!

I'll be honest, the Military Wives Choir song 'Wherever You Are' isn't really my bag.

But before you jump down my throat I don't think it's a bad tune and I appreciate all the time and effort that has gone into it.

I mean a group of women didn't all wake up on the same day, decide to randomly meet and then sing a tune. Obviously there has to be a choir master, women who hold a tune and who have the balls to get up there a sing in front of everyone.

That I respect. If I was to sing, the RSPCA would be round telling me to stop torturing cats.

I also would not be able to put myself out there, so to speak. As in, this is fine, as I’m not in the public eye and that means I’m not open for scrutiny by people who want to cast judgement on you cause they have nothing else to do in their lives.

I realise that it was becoming a really bad habit that every year, the Christmas number 1 record would be whoever had won X Factor. Then the public began to get wise to this and in an epic campaign rejected this as being force fed whatever Simon Cowell wanted us to hear.

That is really refreshing.

So while I'm still on this theme of thinking for yourself.....

A group of women who are married to military personnel get together with TVs Gareth Malone, practise, record the single 'Wherever You Are' give all the proceeds to the Royal British Legion and the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association and get the government to waive VAT too.

My thoughts are 'very well done ladies' and everyone should be proud of they have achieved.

But no, somewhere a select number of people appear to have forgotten that these are real people, not 'celebs' who are courting fame and fortune. They are everyday women, which happens to include some with body art.

In particular soloist Samantha Stevenson has visible tattoos (god forbid a woman should have tattoos-Daily Mail outrage).

I personally don't think it's a big deal, it's her body, she's a real person, a real wife, a real mother and a real good singer.

However, should the fact that a woman has visible tattoos when she's singing in a choir be worthy of a hate campaign?

She said: 'There were loads of nasty comments. It was hurtful. My tattoos make me stand out from the rest of the girls.'

Seriously, it's not as if she's stolen your kids Christmas presents to buy crack then buy a dog from Gumtree to be a bait dog! She has tattoos......

'You shouldn't judge a book by its cover, I am who I am and I like my tattoos. It doesn't make me a bad person. The internet stuff isn't going to put me off, I'm going to have a poppy tattoo to celebrate the single going to No1'

I hope she does!