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Crazy Voices

Tom Ball

    Of course in order to best “preserve” Stonehenge, the monuments are fenced off and have guards. But one day a group of people snuck in past the barrier and began singing ancient folk songs in crazy, unique voices on top of the pillars. The guards demanded that they get down but they refused.
    Finally, they were removed by police, and security was tightened. But the people had found many friends on the Stonehenge website they’d set up. So the next week hundreds of people charged onto the site one night and again there were wild songs, the likes of which had never been heard before.
    The event captured the popular imagination and soon many people were demanding that security only prevent people from knocking over the monument and let people run free here. But the authorities would not allow it.
     So they took up a collection and raised millions for a KTV tower. They built it on the outskirts of London and it was 600 m tall, the tallest structure in the world. They wanted to have only singers with a crazy voice sing from the top of the tower. They argued that they were tired of singers always trying to sound like one another, and they wanted unique, wild voices. And they reasoned that everyone has a unique voice, so why not a unique singing voice? The idea was crazy singers could come to the top and using microphones sing their hearts out.
    As time went by any promising singer who had a crazy voice and wanted to make it would have to first sing at the tower.
    Below the tower people would gather by the thousands and would mark scorecards for each singer. After every hour they would cast their votes, voting for the craziest singer.
    The market for crazy, wild singers turned out to be vast and soon even famous normal singers were trying to make their singing voice more wild and unique.

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