History Main / HollywoodToneDeaf

* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers singer Anthony Kiedis had not been a talented singer before 1998; he would approximate the keys for certain songs and would need hundreds of takes to record even the simplest of tracks. Starting from the Chilis' seventh album ''Music/{{Californication}}'' onward, he began to hire a singing coach, and his voice has improved quite a bit. However, he usually saves his voice for popular televised performances, and decides to sing slightly off-key during less popular live shows.

* Played straight in all versions ([[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004 film]], [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera theater]], [[Series/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1990 TV movie]]) of ''Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', where we are led to believe that Carlotta is a terrible singer, when in reality, she sounds almost exactly like any opera singer would.

* The Tramp of ''WebAnimation/TheBackwaterGospel'' isn't very good at singing. His voice actor, Zebulon Whately, is however a member of the GothicCountry band Sons of Perdition.

* Played straight in all versions ([[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004 film]], [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera theater]], [[Series/ThePhantomOfTheOpera TV movie]]) of ''Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', where we are led to believe that Carlotta is a terrible singer, when in reality, she sounds almost exactly like any opera singer would.

* In Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Utopia, Limited'', the number "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQOIaiDh0F0 A Tenor, All Singers Above]]" calls for the singer to purposely botch the high notes, on the grounds that he has let himself go from being too madly in love.

* In ''Theatre/OrpheusInTheUnderworld'', Orpheus is a terrible violin player, with his music being used as torture for Eurydice.

* In the "Opening Doors" sequence of the musical ''Theatre/MerrilyWeRollAlong'', the first girl Frank auditions sings a few bars of his song "Who Wants To Live In New York?" roughly an octave too high and generally out of tune. In some productions, she ad-libs, "I can sing it higher!" before being dismissed with the customary "thank you." "Sopranos with voices like bees" indeed.

* The first girl auditioned to sing "Who Wants To Live In New York?" in the "Opening Doors" sequence of the musical ''Theatre/MerrilyWeRollAlong''. (In some productions, she ad-libs, "I can sing it higher!") "Sopranos with voices like bees" indeed.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': a sequence in which Fiona's singing kills a bird actually had a ''talented'' singer come in and replicate the sound of an incredibly off-key note. This was noted on the DVD, in which they explained that a true bad note required either a truly tone-deaf person or a professional singer that knew the difference.

* This and GagBoobs are pretty much Wrestling/{{WWE}} diva Wrestling/JillianHall's entire character. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vt3o7EGcbY Have a listen. Or better yet, don't.]]
** This gimmick is what reportedly drove Hulk Hogan to TNA, as he told everyone who would listen it was done to insult his daughter Brook, whose career WWE was reluctant to promote. In reality it turns out it was just something Jillian does (she thankfully has a more bearable voice in real life) that she decided to do onscreen to get more boos (it worked), which is also why it kept up long after Jillian had left the WWE (and also likely why Wrestling/HulkHogan was willing to come back).
** Incidentally she's not ''that'' bad of a singer when she ''really'' tries. Her in character album may still be off tone but is nowhere near as grating as her live WWE "performances". She did...[[SoBadItsGood decent enough]]... that crowds at Pro Wrestling Xtreme shows actually chanted "let her sing" though it so far seems to be the ''only'' promotion where the crowds have embraced her "music".

* The country music version of Jonathan & Darlene Edwards: The Statler Brothers recorded an entire album in the persona of a hilariously untalented group called Lester "Roadhog" Moran and His Cadillac Cowboys.