What is tone deafness?
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There are two principal meanings behind being “tone deaf.”
1. You can’t hear musical pitch in your head while you are singing and therefore can’t match the pitch of the music you are singing to or relative to yourself. In simple terms, you are always sharp or flat and never sound good.
2. A modern usage meaning you are saying something without considering the optics of what you are saying. Meaning, you can say something that may or may not be true, but saying at that particular time or in the particular way will be upsetting and you had no idea that it could possibly be upsetting. Talking about your wonderful mother’s day plans to someone at their mother’s funeral, for a crazy example from my own life.
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