Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Karaoke Anyone?

There are lots of karaoke places here in Beijing. Most of them are labeled KTV. (Bet you'll never guess what that stands for. As a hint, they show the lyrics and the music videos that go along with the song on the TV set in the room.) The biggest difference between the places here and the ones back home is that here you are given a private room for just your party so that you only need to embarrass yourself in front of people you know and not in front of total strangers.
We had about 7 of us go last week and it looked something like this.
One of the amusing things (in addition to the singing) are the videos. They often don't have permission to show the actual music video, if there was one. So they create their own. On this particular night, the 2 best were for "Mrs Robinson" and "You're Mama Don't Dance". They are so inappropriate for the songs that words fail me. If I ever come across them on-line I'll add links because everyone should have a chance to share this joke.

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