If you’re anything like me, you can’t sing. You know the feeling of hearing a great song on the radio and just wanting to break out in song, but you know you can’t because there’s not a single note within your vocal range. You sing in the shower, and somehow your shampoo bottle manages to cringe at the sound of your voice.
What’s worse is if you love to sing. You can’t stop, no matter how often people beg you. If you’re anything like me, you’d love to attend the RHA Lip-Dub; an opportunity to sing and perform without worry of your voice not being up-to-snuff with your fellow residents.
According to Samantha Wilson, Residence Hall Association (RHA) program board director, “The RHA Lip-Dub is a lip-syncing competition focusing on 80s and 90s music. We put the program together to allow people to participate and perform a skit or just come and watch others perform.”
Anyone and everyone is welcomed to come (whether you can actually sing or not) to the Student Center Auditorium from 8-11 p.m. on Wednesday for the show. While there is no fee for preforming or audience seating, RHA is asking you donate at least one canned food item. The canned food will be taken to SOS.
Though this is the first year RHA will be holding a Lip-Dub competition, the RHA has been busy with other events for EMU residents. “Some other popular programs that we have put on are Campus Bash, Masque-Rave Ball, and Lil’ Sibs Weekend,” Wilson said.
The RHA “encompasses all EMU students who are living on campus… The mission of the RHA is to provide a means for residence hall students of EMU to attend educational and social programming, voice their ideas, concerns, and opinions to the proper authorities, and to continuously work to improve the condition and experience of on-campus living.”
With more than 3,000 residents on EMU’s campus, the RHA has a big job to do to keep residents busy and involved.
“This is my third year being actively involved with RHA,” Wilson said. “I am a part of RHA because I love it. I have had so many interesting opportunities to meet amazing people not only on our campus but on campuses across the nation.”
To anyone who plans on lip-syncing “I Want It That Way” (the classic 1999 Backstreet Boys hit single), the RHA is available
for any resident to join. “As far as RHA goes if you live on campus and are looking for ways to get involved or make changes you should definitely look into becoming involved with it,” Wilson said.
Whether you can carry a tune, are looking for an opportunity to perform, or simply wish to cheer on your neighbors, check out the Lip-Dub Competition.
“If you wish to perform you have to sign up in advance and we are asking that groups consist of no more than 8 people,” Wilson said. To sign up you can simply email Brittany Gross at BGross5@emich.edu.”
Remember, the RHA is here to help residents, like you, to feel truly at home here at Eastern Michigan University, even if your roommate does complain about your singing.
