Boys Don't Cry = Dream Come True

I have always wanted to sing this song Karaoke.  For my 24th birthday, sometime in the earlier half of the decade, I rehearsed my very own version of The Cure's Boys Don't Cry with all the Me's & I's converted to you's and vice versa.  The idea was to overcome my karao-phobia and start my year balls to the wall.  When I got to the Venue (the Mint on Market in SF) much to my chagrin they did not stock my song.  It was a disappointing birthday to mark the beginning of a disappointing year.  We left the bar and I don't remember the specifics of the rest of the evening.  Several weeks later I ended up singing back-ups for my friend Kymmy's famous rendition of Proud Mary (the Tina version).  Shortly thereafter, I was manning the mic myself without fear, doing everything from Beast of Burden to Lola to 18 & Life to Heart of Glass.  I was hooked. 

Now 5 years and several dozen karaoke bars later, I have yet to sing my altered version of my favorite Cure sing-along publicly and it's not for lack of trying.  My hopes of singing this karaoke died and rising from from the ash of that dream was the desire to record my own version, a cover, of the song.  For my birthday this year a couple of my friends got me a MIDI because I'd been messing around in garage band making a crap song here and there (I have the baddest-ass friends around..) and they are very supportive of my creative endeavos, as trifling as they may be (isn't that sweet).

Anyhow, my insomnia this evening has allowed me, in a very round about way, to perform this song publicly...
here goes nothing!...from me to you...the vocal stylings and musicianship of ALINA GATTI doing Boys Don't Cry..

P.s Pardon the airy vocal track....i have to sing directly into the mic built into the back of my desktop computer.  If you want to mail me a mic...i'll accept.

Boys don't cry

alina gatti