Taking Back Karaoke

All of you singers with perfect pitch and stage presence to spare can suck it; I'm starting a revolution right here and now to take karaoke back for the hopeless!

Don't get me wrong. I'm a middling singer on a good day and I admire your talent...when I'm at a choir or opera performance or rock show. NOT at a karaoke bar. Karaoke is the digital video for music. The great enabler. It allows the great musical unwashed to chug a few and get up and sing badly in front of their families, friends, and strangers and to make no excuses for it.

So, imagine my surprise in noticing recent years' trends of going to previously mentioned establishments and seeing these brave souls who get up to entertain, tapping into the common folk consciousness (AND pitch level...) get criticized for their lack of chops. It's just like verbally smacking down a small child who draws a picture with a purple sky. What's next? They don't sing anymore, do they? They don't draw anymore, do they?

In hopes of re-opening the floodgates, I hope that all you rockin' singers take a page from the book of Michele (an AWESOME singer I know in Boise) and buy your own relatively affordable karaoke machine and have bitchin' parties at YOUR house. That way, your auditory pitch benders are unaffected by bad singers and bad singers can get up at karaoke bars around the world without fear that you'll criticize them for having fun.

I think I've made my point:)...