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Monday, February 8, 2010
??!! Karaoke Killers Murder Song Murderers
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:37 PM
The NYT reports a rash of people in the Philippines getting literally murdered for singing poor karaoke renditions of Frank Sinatra's "My Way."
“I used to like ‘My Way,’ but after all the trouble, I stopped singing it,” [63-year-old Rodolfo Gregorio] said. “You can get killed.”The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling “My Way” in karaoke bars over the years in the Philippines, or how many fatal fights it has fueled. But the news media have recorded at least half a dozen victims in the past decade and includes them in a subcategory of crime dubbed the “My Way Killings.”
.......Karaoke-related killings are not limited to the Philippines. In the past two years alone, a Malaysian man was fatally stabbed for hogging the microphone at a bar and a Thai man killed eight of his neighbors in a rage after they sang John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” Karaoke-related assaults have also occurred in the United States, including at a Seattle bar where a woman punched a man for singing Coldplay’s “Yellow” after criticizing his version.
I think we can all agree murder is almost always "wrong," correct? And while I despise violence to the core of my very being, I can also "understand"—THOUGH NOT CONDONE—someone going into a murderous rage following an especially poor rendition of a karaoke song. That being said, if it were somehow morally okay to murder people, what karaoke song would send you on a killing spree?
I'll start: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (because I already hate that song in the first place). Your turn!
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Actually, I'd add any song that everyone else has sung 50 million times before, especially when the songs were lame to begin with. I mean, Careless Whisper? Did people ever honestly like that song?
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sorry white women from the suburbs, you are going to have to figure out some other way to release that angst!
Oh! or anything by the Screaming Trees!
Seriously...have you seen most Karaoke selections? You're lucky if you get a decent song.
In all seriousness, I'd be eternally grateful if no one would ever sing Like a Prayer karaoke ever again.
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Can't stand that song in the first place, but when the recently dumped girl at the bar starts to sing it, every other slightly jilted female has to join in. I then stab myself in the ear with my drink straw.
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