Singing is my best friend's lifelong dream. I can't stand her singing voice.
Throwaway because she also uses reddit and would recognise my account pretty easily.
My best friend, the entire time I've known her, has always loved singing. She mainly does classical but has set her sights on opera, she's gone to music school before and is going to re-enroll to study it again. She's hoping that this will help her get into productions and allow her to live her lifelong dream of singing professionally. I've always been really supportive of her and I really want her to succeed in whatever she wants to do with it.
But, her singing voice is absolutely awful. She hits the notes most of the time, she's not technically bad at it, but her singing voice just sounds so unbearable to me. I've tried to get used to it, I've tried to enjoy it, but it's like nails on chalkboards. She's so nasally and shrill, she wants to be a soprano but she's really just a mezzo overstretching herself. If she starts singing while we're hanging out, I'm never enjoying it, only enduring it.
The biggest problem is that she's really insecure about her voice, and I think she knows that I hate her singing. Talking it out would be good if talking it out wouldn't hurt her feelings so badly and maybe crush her dreams. The best way all this could go is if I could somehow just enjoy, or at the very least feel neutral about her singing. But I know that's not going to happen because it's been years and I've not found myself liking it any more.
I can overlook it at the end of the day because she doesn't sing much while I'm around and it's something I can endure for the friendship. But I need to get this off my chest, just for my own peace of mind.