Talk:Filli Vanilli/@comment-24355470-20140215230244/@comment-3146930-20140215232153

-Why is everypony so surprised that Fluttershy can sing? She sang with them before. Rainbow Dash, in particular, did a duet with her (Find a Pet).

Rainbow Dash mentions in Mane-hatten (or however you spell it) that she can't get into musicals because ponies don't just randomly break into song and dance. Also a few times in earlier episodes when Pinkie would start to sing a song, the other would look at her weird. It is entirely possible that most of the musical numbers don't actually happen as we seem them from the character's points of view. We see a big song and dance number, but to them they are just having a regular conversation. I think it is called the Adaptation Hypothesis, where musical numbers are just dramatic reconstructions of what really happened, but with song.