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[glow=darkorchid]Ok fun new topic, I KNOW everyone can add to this, just tell your most horrid and terrifing karaoke experience....... I will go first so let the giggles begin.......


Alrighty, this almost scared me away from karaoke all together being that it was my very first performance.  I was soooo excited, I was doing britney spears' hit me baby and I got all dolled out in my friends catholic school uniform with a few "adjustments"  and I got up on stage my hands were sweaty my stomach had bats...not butterflies....but BATS!!  Then the music played and the screen seemed to be blurry......and then uh oh I started singing, I was at least 2 notes off pitch and I panicked as the crowd seemed a bit amused......I felt a lump roll up in my throat and then....... I realized it wasn't a lump ......and then....BUUUUUUUUURP!!!! Loud as can be and the crowd fell silent, I turned blood red I'm sure and when I went to run off the "stage" I stepped down and boom my spice girl heels broke and sent me tumbling to the floor.  All I could hear at that point was my heartbeat and the gasp of the people in there and then a roaring laughter which now that I think about it..... I think it was louder in my head than it really was, most people were concerned about my wellbeing but I didn't notice then.... I grabbed my broken hooker heels and hit the ground running.....it was about 6 months before I ever did karaoke again    [/glow]

OMG! !

Poor thing!

My worst experience... hmmm, Lately I've been able to just flow with an error. I rarely get embarrassed. But when I first started... before I found my "voice", I was waivering all over the place. not a strong vocal at all... very weak. Anyway, I made the mistake of having the venue record me on cassette... and then I listened to it on the way home.

I was just absolutely HORRIBLE! I suckied big time, and KNEW it. So I vowed I would NEVER, EVER, positively EVER torture other people with the sound of my voice. I wouldn't even go into my venue I "hung out" at for a few days. I finally went back, and would sit around and listen, but never put my request in.
Finally, Rachael, the kj, asked me what my problem was.
I asked back "What problem?"
"Why aren't you singing?"
"'cause I SUCK! I heard myself on tape, and I'm AWFUL!"
She just blew air out her nose! "Jeez! If you really think you're that bad, you need a wake up call. It'll take time to find your own confidence... and that's all you're lacking! That's what we're all here for! Now put up a slip or I'll hurt you!"

Racheal was always the best person to work with and for... even after I took the turn to professional karaoke host. I've never forgotten her specific lessons...

so now when I torture everyone with my singing I blame her! !

omagoodness Butterfly! I think I'd die if that were me!

fortunately I've never had anything REEEEALLY embarassing happen to me at karaoke (err.... that I can remember)

I attempted to sing "Cry" by Faith Hill once.... forgetting how flippin high it was.... and basically stood there staring at the lyrics on the screen with a blank look on my face....

that's about the worst story I have. Borin huh?

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LMFAO!!!!!

OMG!!! I'd be cryin' over that one, Melly!! HAHAHAHHAA!!!

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[glow=darkorchid]Well things happen although I believe I was traumatized from that moment on and I still get a little shaky on karaoke night but I just remember that my first experience HAD to be the worst thing that would happen to me and I lived through that so why stop there?  I might as well try more and go for the embarrassment hall of fame [/glow]

now THAT happened to me singing "Suite Madam Blue"... I was used to the SC version, and when I went to another place, they had the Sweet Georgia Brown version I think... that version was HALF the other! !

Nothing really too embarrassing.  Just the obvious: singing a song really, really badly.  I think everybody who sings karaoke has done that at one time or another.  A few times I did feel like I would burp during a song (I drink a lot of soda pop), but it never happened.  I imagine eventually it will.

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Reward: nine yen in drawer.

I've been in the Canadian military, nothing can embarass me.

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You can be strange but not a stranger

I don't really have any horrid stories either, other than the typical off pitch thing. I tried to do closer by NIN last week, and just could not find the pitch for the verses. I don't think anyone really cared though, they were all too busy grinding away on the dance floor.         Timbo

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what if I am the one whos normal and the rest of the world is all messed up?

Anyone singing with the fly way down? The ladies turn the face away. Man that was Bad

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

Funny, when I sing with my fly down the ladies all pay much more attention and clap heartily!!

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C Mc
KJ, FL

Hey Maggie. Next time don't worry if you hit one or two clams in your song. It doesn't matter the point with singing out is you get the experience being in front of a crowd. No one expects you to be perfect because no one is. Even the most famous and talented people get bad days. So next time dont give up. Take a sip of your drink swallow and try your best to finish. Your best is all you can do. So keep your chin up k, a lot of people don't have half the confidence to get up there to begin with I'm sure. I have only did one karoke night in my life and I sang with a complete stranger and I was buzzed out of my mind and did NY NY. It was fun to sing with someone I didn't know and we got a standing Ovation. So rock on and keep havin fun. xxxxxxxxx much love, g

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MUCH LOVE AND HUGS

~ G

Yup.  The song was I Will Survive.

Just be glad you weren't singing 'Little Man' by Alan Jackson!

There was this drunk guy that came up in front of the stage while my friend and I were singing, and he was pretending to take pictures with nothing in his hands.  I thought he just thought we were cute, but when I got to the ladie's room after the song...oops!  At least I had on my cute new underwear I had bought at La Senza just the day before...

Butterfly,
 I wish I could fake accidents like that on stage and make them look real.  Then my crazy behavior would get the crowd loosened up every time I was on stage.  After all that is what the crowd wants anyway.
 I read about this woman dancer who had bladder control problems...  Not a story for this group though :)

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I only date Karaoke singers.

Lets see that would be the second time I ever sang "You made me so happy"


I lost at love before
Got mad and closed the door
But you said "Try, just once more"

I chose you for the one
Now we're having so much fun
You treated me so kind
I'm about to lose my mind
You made me so very happy
I'm so glad you came into my life

The others were untrue
But when it came to loving you
I'd spend my whole life with you

'Cause you came and you took control
You touched my very soul
You always showed me that
Loving you is where it's at
You made me so very happy
I'm so glad you came into my life
Thank you, babe
Yeah, yeah

I love you so much you see
You're even in my dreams
I can hear you
I can hear you callin' me
I'm so in love with you
All I ever want to do is
Thank you babe, thank you babe

[Instrumental Interlude]

You made me so very happy
I'm so glad you came into my life
You made me so very happy
You made me so so, so very happy, babe
I'm so glad you came
Into my life

I want to thank you, girl
Every day of my life
I want to thank you
You made me so very happy...



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I was so over the top it was like waiting to be shot.


I learned not to over do the crowd that day!  :)

Kind of funny story. Sometimes we do a gender bender, where you choose a song sung by someone of opposite sex. We try to keep it light but sometime we will pick some extreme opposite songs, like my friend who sang "I am woman, hear me roar" with an "attitude".

Anyways, I have this friend who is gay and on that particular night he picked "It's raining man" to sing for gender bender. I don't know why but I had to control myself from laughing, along with my other friend who knew he was gay. It just was the right mood and the way he sang it I guess. I thought it was so funny.

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Seize the day and SING!!!