RATIONAL INSANITY
Filipinos just love videoke
I love videoke and singing and I am quite sure that everyone will agree with me that Filipinos really love videoke and singing as well. Whenever I travel I always find time to chill in the evenings and the best way to do this is to go to a local videoke bar and spend the night singing. For this week, I would like to point out ten personalities that I usually encounter when in videoke bars. Go abroad and you would find that every Pinoy family there would either have a magic-sing or a full-fledged videoke machine! Locally, let’s go into the videoke bars and check out these ten characters who are also frequently in these joints.
- ‘My Way’ people - some people think that this song is cursed because every time it is sung in a videoke bar something bad happens; frankly, I would say that this song is just a song that everybody would like to sing, so everybody tries to outdo everybody and this is where the conflict usually comes from. ‘My Way’ people know no other song except this, and in the fortunate event, sometimes they also know ‘Bridge over Troubled Water’.
- A Reciter – here is someone who sings, or thinks he is singing a song, but is actually reciting the song like one would do with poetry. These people should be in public speaking bars and not in videoke bars.
- A concert freak – someone who seems to have no plans of letting go of the microphone and would drool off singing one song after another. Sometimes these people are really good singers, but most of the time, they just think that they are and are more appreciated by drunks than by music enthusiasts.
- Doble Karas – there are singers who can do a duet song whilst shifting their own voice from male to female. If they are really good, the effect is stunning, but when they are not, the song turns out to be more of a comedy skit, instead of an actual song.
- She-Males – these are male singers who go for the more difficult female songs like ‘Through the Fire’, ‘Better Days’, and ‘Loving You’ and actually end up singing the song pretty well; ala-Anton-Diva!
- Crooners – these are enthusiasts who go for the old songs, like ‘Touch by Touch’, ‘Unforgettable’ and ‘Twilight time’. Most of the time, these crooners are exceptionally young so you would not expect them to belt out something from the golden days of song, but when they have the mic in their hands, they actually give justice to the era.
- Drunken Singer – almost everybody will turn out this way when too much alcohol has been consumed, but there are those who don’t even need a drop of alcohol to sing a song in a really weird, and quite unsettling manner.
- The shy singer – is the singer who requires a lot of prodding before they take the mic, and often, it was not a good idea to convince them in the first place because they actually have reason enough not to be seen singing in public.
- The Soul Singer – well, these kinds of singers I really like, I have a friend, Gary, who sings just this way – when they get hold of a song, you feel that whatever they sing, the song is always about heartache. You can actually feel how they feel in the way they sing!
- Mic Grabbers – these are people who can’t wait for their turn and would usually sing along with someone who is already singing a song on stage. Ito sila ang madalas napapa-away.
There you go guys! Try and look around for these kinds of people when you go out to chill in a videoke bar sometime in the future!
Be rational; be insane… every once in a while! TTFN!
I love you all! Byers!