wiseguy wrote:
Let's see... Everything About You, an upbeat crowd pleasing song (there is a radio edit karaoke version that does not contain that one expletive) or Take It Easy, one the most frickin' boring songs ever released as karaoke. Hmm.. I think I'd rather hear Everything About You. But then I prefer my karaoke crowd to be awake.
You know, there are radio edit (clean) versions of many of the songs you would or do censor from your books. People will sing what is on the screen. Those who don't will make up their own lyrics to any song anyway.
You would like us to believe that most people prefer having your so called objectionable songs removed from the books.. but you're wrong. You seek out bar owners that think the same way you do. They
are a small minority. Then once hired by these bar owners you eventually build up a crowd of singers that think the same as you do, again a small minority.
You have found a niche with this small portion of the population mainly because none, or very few, of your competition do things this way.
People do not request these songs for "shock value". They sing them because they are fun songs to do and quite welcome with an overwhelming majority of karaoke crowds. They end up singing the boring songs because they are given no choice. I feel sorry for the poor guy stuck with singing Take It Easy just so he could go to the same karaoke as his friends.
This could be true at your show...but even with all the clean versions I have...many feel the need to add the swear words...lest they be perceievd as wimps for not swearing like the album version.
I'm very sure he would have inserted every syllable of every swear word in the song and maybe added some that weren't.
Take it Easy just happens to be one of over 12,000 clean songs he could have picked. Why he chose that one, only he will know. Everyone else stayed and kept singing. He didn't chase them away with his selection.
Take It Easy was their first song released. Went to #12 and was on the charted 8 weeks in the Top 40. Who doesn't know all the words to Take It Easy?
Maybe you remember when crowds were begging for Eagles songs, when the Eagles hadn't given permission for their songs for karaoke use? My first Eagles songs came by way of a bootleg Chinese laser disc. Then some time later BackStage did their disc. Finally Sound Choice did theirs before it was pulled for ...some...reason.
And I guess nobody sings Hotel California at your totally upbeat show? It's another classic song that everyone sings along with....
Immature Shock Value is the only thing that could explain the difference between the songs they asked for and the songs they actually did. Not so they could "entertain" the entire crowd with their upbeat crowd pleasing song.
The proof is....out of the over 12,000 songs, I'm very sure there are 1 or 2 upbeat crowd pleasers he could have found that he really likes to sing also.
And if he couldn't have found anything because they are deleted and he was forced to sing something different or he refused to sing at all...proves my point again.....Immature Shock Value was all he wanted and his only intention. If I can't swear...nobody will like me
or pay attention to me...
while I'm acting like a jerk...
Swearing in front of someones wife and mother makes me feel like a man. And ..it's "entertaining."
I'm not buying it. It's a cop out for KJs that think they are entertaining the crowd and everyone should enjoy it. If they don't there must be something wrong with them. It's not normal to be swearing up a storm in mixed company. It's a sign of ignorance or immaturity or both. But one thing it's not is entertaining.
The small minded bar owners I work for value their business reputation. Unlike most bar owners that prove it by selling to underage kids just to make a buck. The ones who will put up with undesireables to make a buck. Who turn their back on the "snorting" in the restrooms. The ones that over serve to the point of puking or staggering just to make a buck.
You are right....these bar owners I work for may very well be a minority. It's a minority I'll have to live with.
And I appreciate them.
Where is it written that only karaoke shows that contain unlimited swearing are not boring and very entertaining? Based on what? My singers/crowds and bar owners find it refreshing that I don't have all swearing screaming drunks "entertaining" everyone.
A show of my quality is a minority that keeps me busy. I'm sure if more KJs offered a service like mine, more bar owners would appreciate the option. Since it's not offered they figure they have to take the only thing available. That's sad....
That would be KJs that don't care what reputation they create for the bar.
again...hmmmmm
