What is the laziest path to power?

[noob]

so pick bard. you dont need to be born lucky. you dont need to study. just sing sing sing and you become a god.

You need to study a whole lot to do good music or humour or tragedy or whatever perform you will use.
Singing well is hard.
Even if the kind of performance you want to use is "easy to do" the fact you need ranks just to be an average bard means you need lots of training.
However if you are good at being a bard you do not just get any power: you get one of the most desired powers, the power of making yourself popular.