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Karaoke Madness

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 09 2010 10:41 AM

Norimitsu Onishi of the Times, on the dark side of Filipino karaoke. The record shows, they took the blows... as well as gunshot wounds, sucker punches with blackjacks, and broken-bottle stabbings. After a day of barbering, Rodolfo Gregorio went to his neighborhood karaoke bar still smelling of talcum powder. Putting aside his glass of Red Horse Extra Strong beer, he grasped a microphone with a habitué’s self-assuredness and briefly stilled the room with the Platters’ “My Prayer.” Next, he belted out crowd-pleasers by Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck. But Mr. Gregorio, 63, a witness to countless fistfights and occasional stabbings erupting from disputes over karaoke singing, did not dare choose one beloved classic: Frank Sinatra’s version of “My Way.” “I used to like ‘My Way,’ but after all the trouble, I stopped singing it,” he 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.”

MFS62 Feb 09 2010 10:48 AM Re: Karaoke Madness

[quote="LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr":by9lymb4] The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling “My Way” in karaoke bars over the years in the Philippines, [/quote:by9lymb4] Or singing Jerry Lewis songs in France. Later

metirish Feb 09 2010 10:53 AM Re: Karaoke Madness

Hold on here, you can get killed for singing Frank but it's ok to belt out Engelbert Humperdinck?