The Idols

I was recovering from the shock of the great choreography talking scandal when I decided to take sometime and reflect on whet it was I love about show choir. Thinking back to freshman year, I was in Chantuers, the freshman show choir, that year. I had never been in show choir before and I was ecstatic to have the chance now. I had moved from Kansas in the middle of eighth grade where the was no show choir to a place where show choir was as big as high school football. We were part of the group that was under new direction and we were all new to high school show choir. As anyone would, we found something that we thought was the pinnacle of perfection in show choir, Happiness inc., the varsity show choir at our school. The members of that group were like show choir gods to us. Our dream was to be just like them. I remember when I listened them sing. I spent weeks learning the parts to their songs so that I could sing them too. I loved how effortless their moves looked, how perfect their harmonies were, and how great it felt when they succeeded. But success didn't always come and I will always remember at the first competition of the year when Happiness was given 6th place. I don't worry about that any more because they received 2nd or 1st at every other competition.



Sophomore year I made it into Protege, the prep show choir. This group was amazing and I was happy to be a part of it. During the year, we received 3 grand champions, 2 first runner ups, and fifth over all in the finals at MoShow Competition. Even with that much success, though, I still idolized Happiness. They were amazing and I thought that was just them. They didn't have to work, there were no problems, they were just perfect. Or so I thought.......



Then came this year and I was finally in! I was one of the people that all the younger show choir members wanted to be. I thought that all of the problems that we had had when we were young would just vanish. But they didn't. We still talk too much, people still mess around, and we still have vocal problems sometimes. That was when the choreography retreat happened and I realized that it wasn't effortless or easy. Happiness wasn't naturally good, they had to work for it, they had to have good leaders, and learn discipline. Those leaders were the people I had known and loved from past groups. They were amazing and taught the group to be amazing too. And that's what we need. We need leaders who are positive examples and can teach others to be the best that they can be so that we can succeed just like Happiness always has.