The Inventor of Karaoke Has Died, But His Legacy Is Louder Than Ever

WeirdGoesPro , 3 months ago

Link without paywall: archive.is/FJJqI

some_guy , 4 months ago

War crimes. The commiter of war crimes has escaped punishment. This is what happened.

FlyingSquid , 4 months ago

So it was his fault.

(Just kidding, I like karaoke.)

Viking_Hippie , 4 months ago

Matt Alt’s book, Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World

Alternative title: “I’m a huge fucking weeb and so can you” 😂

Immersive_Matthew , 4 months ago

I know it is loud…I am living in Vietnam right now. :-)

jeffw OP , 4 months ago

Do you mean people are celebrating him now by singing more karaoke? That would be dope

Immersive_Matthew , 4 months ago

2-3 times a week at least on my block at a volume you cannot get away from as it is outside in the square in front of my home. Lots of really bad singers.

FuglyDuck , 4 months ago

I’ve never heard someone doing karaoke that wasn’t an awful singer.

Most sound like a beached whale.

FlyingSquid , 4 months ago

Excuse me, but I got an ovation doing karaoke twice in two different places.

It’s the only two times outside of high school plays anyone ever clapped for me, so I appreciated it.

That said, I used to do VO work and I have (or maybe had at this point, I’m way out of practice) a knack for doing impersonations, including musical ones. The first time I did Minnie the Moocher with a passable Cab Calloway, and the second time I did Space Oddity doing a damn perfect Bowie if I do say so myself.

I only got paid to sing once though. And it wasn’t to sing well.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq3tVrTFcKk

Also, that show never made it to TV, so it only exists on YouTube. They were really nice guys though. (I only did the singing, not the puppetry, and I never met the kid.)

FuglyDuck , 4 months ago

Clearly…. I’ve not heard you do karaoke,

;)

FlyingSquid , 4 months ago

No one has in quite a while. I haven’t done it since my daughter was born. At first because I had no time and later because I’m just not into going to bars anymore. So it’s been a good 13 years. And even back then I didn’t exactly do it every weekend.

FuglyDuck , 4 months ago

FWIW, I once almost got offered an album deal.

The CIA ultimately went with crying babies because they didn’t have to pay them.

It’s not how I go looking for a note. It’s not even how I find the wrong note…. It’s how I find all the notes.

So everyone who’s not heard me sing. Your welcome .

Shyfer , 4 months ago

I wish that was true where I live, then I wouldn’t be the only one. That supposed to be the whole idea of it, too.