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I'm wondering what you all's experience has been with customers/singers wanting to perform their own parody lyrics to standard karaoke tracks? As of yet, I have always discouraged it, fearing a deluge of singers would follow suit, resulting in the show itself devolving into an aimless free-for-all.

I have no problems with it. I have people who regularly do mashups, improvs, or substitute lyrics. It has never caused a run on this though.

-Chris

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-Chris

i have a few, and the other singers think it's funny.

doesn't happen all the time, just once and a while.

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It's all good!

I have a guy that sings parady lyrics to a couple songs.

First off, his songs are versions of "Ironic" and "American Pie" with dirty lyrics, so I don't let him sing them until after 11:00. My happy hour/early crowd is a little classier than my late night crowd, and would NOT appreciate them AT ALL.

Second, they were funny the first dozen times, but have got on my nerves since. He only sings the two parady songs, and has been doing them now for about 6 years. He has literally done each about 100 times at this point.

As much as it gets on my nerves, though, the new people who have not heard them seem to like it, and I'm not in the censoring business at my venue unless I have to be, so I let him be.

I have told him about 50 times that he needs some new material, though. He just had a baby and only pops in about once a month these days, so it has kinda worked itself out

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C Mc
KJ, FL

We don't have any that do their own lyrics but the parodies from Weird Al, Bob Rivers, or Cledus T Judd and the likes get sung. But I wouldn't discourage anyone doing their own - as long as lyric content was clean.

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I think very few can do a whole song on the fly. The most I saw was changing the chorus or certain lines to a song. If someone could do and entire song, have it. It was his time on the stage.

Pretty sure that wouldn't become a problem for most hosts.....do you have a huge amount of crazy people living in your area......

When "Before He Cheats" was a big hit, I made a song parody of that song called "Before She Nags". It always gets a big round of applause by the men in attendance and gets mixed reactions from the females in the crowd. A lot of people were always asking me where they could buy a copy of it.

I've composed several parodys using Karaoke Builder Studio... and they've been known to generate a few laughs. The latest, a George Strait parody is called "Armadillos Are Boring", and I even have a couple of our regular clients wanting to sing it.

More often than not, I try to incorporate some of our regular singers' names in the parody... Conway Twitty's "Don't Cry Joni" became "Don't Whine Linda"...

I still have to get off my butt and compose one called "I Don't Know" in response to my question "What do you want to sing?"... but that's another story.

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Earl
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Thanks for the input, gentlemen. Maybe I will test the waters in the coming weeks.

Johnny- crazy is relative, right?

I let people do it as long as they watch the foul language.

The Rule for bad Language is: "If it's not on the screen, you can't say it."

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