When your parents are strict about music at home

Are you a music junkie? Do you have "Music is food for the soul" printed across your t-shirt? Congratulations, you are a certified person of culture according to the Internet. But does music not roll in your house? Please find below five solutions for when you are facing some issues in your preparations to become the next big thing.

Use your furniture

Convert one side of your wardrobe into a soundproof studio. You keep all your clothes on The Chair™ anyway. If worst comes to worst and you have to hide this arrangement, just stuff all your clothes in there, and then when you have to use it again, just replace your clothes onto The Chair™ again.

Write your own lyrics

If it's just modern songs and the lyrics they sing that your parents have an issue with, try singing slightly different songs. Instead of "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer", try singing "Can't Help Salah from a Dove" and "I Know What Your Dad Ordered". This way you can at least still practice the same tunes.

Hook, line and sinker

Carrying on from the last one, if your parents like a specific genre of music, then be sure to play that on full blast. Put on their favourite piece of music at maximum volume, then be very patient. If it plays on for long enough they'll get sick of it, and then you can put on your own music because anything would be a welcome change at that point.  

Pretend it's the 70s

Tell them you're just listening to the radio. If they don't believe you, make sure to keep some kind of high-pitched version of what you were practising running in the background and then pretend you can't hear anything. So, when they'll furiously start looking for the sound source, you can try and manage to convince them that nobody else can hear the sound. Then you have to convince them that aliens are trying to contact them, and then pretend to have an existential crisis in front of them.

Get help

Go to your friend's house after convincing them of your melancholy, take their ukulele out of its case, and persistently try and make them teach you that Chainsmokers song.

There you have it—some quarantine-friendly solutions to your specific problem, and some to look forward to for when this is all over.     

Proteeti Ahmed is just trying at life. Share life stories that also follow Murphy's Law with her at proteeti.14@gmail.com