Can your song kill someone?

Or cause others to kill at a karaoke bar?

{censored}, my songs can't even inspire someone to spend $10 on a CD.

I just got done posting in a thread on this topic over at GearSlutz: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/464254-my-way-killings.html

Wow. Amazing story. I knew that karaoke killings were not unheard of. I think there was one in the NYC area not that long ago that spun off of some insults. The Philipinos are, of course, famous as a prime source of 'the world's backup bands' -- I used to work with Brits who'd worked throughout the middle east and parts of the third world who said the best bands were always the Philipinos. I couldn't help but wonder what Philipinos thought of Taylor Swift's Grammy's performance. Country used to be really big in the Philpines, and I assume it still is. I know a lot of my Philipino-American friends' elders are often big on classic US country. I thought the use of gay men to diffuse fights was particularly interesting. Of course, it would only work in a culture where beating up on the those perceived as weak or vulnerable is seen as cowardly and wrong. Imagine a bar tried that in some parts of the United States.

I get that way every time someone does Meat Loaf.

Paradise By The Dashboard Lights sends me into a berserker frenzy without fail.

EG

I get that way every time someone does Meat Loaf. Paradise By The Dashboard Lights sends me into a berserker frenzy without fail. EG

That song is why I can't let myself own a gun.

Not sure what the watercolor has to do with anything (We're all in the same boat?), but I sure like it.

Vikings. Berserkers.

Worth a shot.

But, yeah, that song makes me cringe.

And why any female on earth would agree to do that one is beyond me.

EG

"Karaoke-related killings are not limited to the Philippines."

Nor should they be...

LOL!

Once i went out to karaoke to get drunk, have fun, and make a fool of myself.

Littel did I realsise that the bar was full of actual star wannabes who actually thought they were legitimate singers and artists.

I was literally threateaned, and left and never went back to another karoake bar ever again.

Those places suck and everyone in them.

I did Korean karaoke once. There was a private room, some sofas, a disco ball, and the screen with the Korean lyrics was also displaying a wet T-shirt contest. There were about a million Korean pop tunes and about four songs in English. I sang "He'll Have To Go." They were really upset when I started laughing in the middle of the song. To my knowledge, no one tried to kill me

I want you all to know that I am Filipino. Feel free to disagree with the opinions I voice here and know that I gracefully accept any bad reviews when I post music here. The heavy firearms I wear are just for show.

Songs don't kill people...karaoke people kill people.

My songs have been known to kill people...but only softly

(BTW, I'm Filipino...Here's a little factoid: Though Karaoke was a Japanese innovation, Filipinos were the first to import it from Asia to the US. My family had a karaoke machine since the early 1980s (back then they only used cassettes and 8-tracks, I kid you not). Anyway, "My Way" was a song I always heard drunk uncles sing at every single damn family party I attended. And usually the drunk uncles would turn up that cheesy karaoke echo full blast. I don't know why, maybe it gives them some sort of supernatural singing ability or something. But I've never seen any incidents of karaoke-related violence (other than eardrum damage from off-key relatives). Then again, I grew up here in the US. But I have been to the Philippines several times, and karaoke is a 24-hour activity. I'll walk through my dad's hometown and hear people sing karaoke at the corner restaurant during breakfast. Insane!)