--- title: Dad Dubs Daughter's Circle of Life Lion King Rendition description: Dad dubs daughter's shaky rendition of "Circle of Life" from The Lion King with the soundtrack from the movie. canonical: https://time.com/23271/even-this-girls-dad-agrees-that-her-rendition-of-circle-of-life-from-the-lion-king-is-terrible/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-13T15:28:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:45.798Z og:title: This Is What You Sound Like When You Try to Sing "Circle of Life" From The Lion King og:description: Even her dad agrees it's terrible og:url: https://time.com/23271/even-this-girls-dad-agrees-that-her-rendition-of-circle-of-life-from-the-lion-king-is-terrible/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26293eed12ce3d3f/698685461eebf7205136fcc6/screen-shot-2014-03-13-at-10-06-11-am.png?branch=production&width=592&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 592 og:image:height: 333 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-03-13 at 10.06.11 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is What You Sound Like When You Try to Sing "Circle of Life" From The Lion King twitter:description: Even her dad agrees it's terrible twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26293eed12ce3d3f/698685461eebf7205136fcc6/screen-shot-2014-03-13-at-10-06-11-am.png?branch=production&width=592&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Is What You Sound Like When You Try to Sing "Circle of Life" From _The Lion King_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 13, 2014 3:28 PM UTC   by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 13, 2014 3:28 PM UTC When YouTube user Jordan Orlandini was nine years old, she was given an iPod and a camera for Christmas. She filmed herself singing the “Circle of Life” from _The Lion King_ because she wanted to see what her voice sounded like. “I watched the video after recording and thought it wasn’t very good so I put the camera away and forgot about it,” she writes in the [YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN6c8aHBIbU). “Years later, my dad was going through old files on my computer and found this video. He thought it was hilarious and made another video making fun of my singing.” If you watch the video above, you’ll see why. (h/t [Hypervocal](http://hypervocal.com/entertainment/2014/circle-of-life-bad-singing/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/23271/even-this-girls-dad-agrees-that-her-rendition-of-circle-of-life-from-the-lion-king-is-terrible/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/23271/even-this-girls-dad-agrees-that-her-rendition-of-circle-of-life-from-the-lion-king-is-terrible/"},"headline":"This Is What You Sound Like When You Try to Sing \"Circle of Life\" From The Lion King","datePublished":"2014-03-13T15:28:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:45.798Z","description":"Proof that your parents don't actually think everything you do is fantastic","url":"https://time.com/23271/even-this-girls-dad-agrees-that-her-rendition-of-circle-of-life-from-the-lion-king-is-terrible/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26293eed12ce3d3f/698685461eebf7205136fcc6/screen-shot-2014-03-13-at-10-06-11-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26293eed12ce3d3f/698685461eebf7205136fcc6/screen-shot-2014-03-13-at-10-06-11-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-03-13 at 10.06.11 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/23271/even-this-girls-dad-agrees-that-her-rendition-of-circle-of-life-from-the-lion-king-is-terrible/","name":"This Is What You Sound Like When You Try to Sing \"Circle of Life\" From The Lion King"}}]}] ```