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* ''Disaster Area'' from ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (novel)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''. Hosting one of their gigs on your home planet will literally leave it in ruins. It did once turn a vast desert into a verdant field, though. So there's that.
* "Two Kinds", a story from ''[[The Joy Luck Club]]'', has Jing-Mei learn how to play the piano very badly. In front of a large audience including her parents, no less. She admits that she ''could'' have become a good pianist, but was so irritated at her mother [[Stage Mom|forcing her to be a "prodigy" against her wishes]] that she deliberately set out to be this trope instead.
* ''Tangled Webs'' (the second book of [[Forgotten Realms|Starlight and Shadows]]) has pirate [[Boisterous Bruiser|Hrolf the Unruly]] singing "with enormous gusto but little discernible talent". He knows this, too.
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* Elan from ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' isn't so much a bad musician as an annoying one, who insists on providing lyrics to his bardic music ("[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0041.html Con-cen-trate good times, come on!]"), often at inappropriate times ("[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0004.html Bluff, Bluff, Bluff, Bluff the stupid ogre!]").
* In ''[[Adventurers!]]'', Karn, listening to [[Spoony Bard|Gildward]] perform one of his songs, [http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0135.html hypothesizes] that its [[Suckiness Is Painful]] enough to damage enemies in combat.
* ''[http://coralwerks.deviantart.com/art/Mersea-01-Warning-Siren-85345719 Mersea]'' #01 got a little siren whose singing abilities are unsuitable for the traditional pastime of sailor luring. But then, as the later pages show, she's pretty unlucky in general.
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