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Bruce the singer can select which shows they go to. They can walk out the door in a second with no loss.

Find a KJ that matches your personality.

A KJ on the other hand takes who comes in the door, and some of them may not be the kind of people that the show is attempting to target.

"BFFL --you seem to have serious issues with most KJ's Calling them all types of names . I don't know if I should dislike you or feel sorry for you. Now you want to call me a DIVA KJ ..... I'm not the one sitting home creating my own songs so I can take them to every karaoke show and say " PLEASE PLAY MY HOME MADE DISC --- YES I MADE IT MYSELF -- I'M SO TALENTED"


There are plenty of people who look through a karaoke song book and wish that there was a song in there that isn't. I've done it many times. For years I wanted to sing "JERSEY GIRL" by Bruce Springsteen and it just wasn't available. I believe it first came out on a Legends disc and I bought it as soon as I could. Now there are web sites that sell backing tracks of songs that aren't available on a traditional karaoke disc and I have purchased some of these backing tracks and learned how to make my own cdg files so I could sing them at karaoke. There is also some software out there that removes quite a bit of the vocals from a track so a karaoke singer can sing one of his/her favorite songs. It has more to do with patience than talent as far as creating the discs is concerned. I would like to be able to sing EVERY song that I happen to like and I'm willing to spend some time while sitting at home to make that as possible as I can. I may have a knack for creating good home made karaoke tracks but I also have a little bit of singing talent. That singing talent is evident whether I'm singing to a professionally made karaoke track or one that I made myself. I believe that variety is the spice of life. I don't want to be limited by what Sound Choice or Chartbuster wants to produce. I take advantage of the fact that some other people create software for people like me to create our own karaoke tracks. Once again, you come across as being very jealous. Why should it matter to any KJ where my tracks were made. Would it make you feel so much better if a friend of mine made then for me??? Should I have to wait for Sound Choice to make a song forom their request line?? I get the feeling that they don't do much of that anymore, if they ever did. JUST PLAY THE SONG so I can have some fun singing it. I've had people notice that I've made some tracks for myself and they've asked me if I coudl make a song for them or someone they know and I have been happy to do so. I do this for free for people that I know. All I ask is that they pay for the backing track if I can find it online and I do the rest. If the best I can find is the original track for the song they want; I do my best to remove the original vocal and make the karaoke track from that converted track. You seem to want to paint me as this EVIL karaoke SHOW OFF and I guess that is your opinion of me but you couldn't be further from the truth. I'm just a guy who enjoys karaoke and every thing about it, including making friends with a common interest in having FUN while singing songs that we like to sing and share with others. I guess if you're someone that I get along with, I'm considered a good friend. If you're someone who happens to run an unfair rotation and that causes me to say NO! when you ask me to make a song for you, or give you a copy of a song that I've already made.....they you would probably not have such a good opinion of me. I can live with that. I'm not out to make EVERYONE love me. There are people that I don't like and I don't want them to like me either. I pick and choose my friends wisely. I don't need a bunch of fair weather friends. I like true friends. I'll just cut to the punch line......A true friend will help you get rid of the body.

S0.... I ask again.....

KJ's: Do you view your show as part of an art form or is it a vehicle for people to have fun with?

ok. I'll try to remember that.

Now that is called constructive criticism.

I do not feel insulted by someone making a suggestion as to how my posts can be better understood.

Notice how I did not insult the person pointing out how I could improve my posts?

It's much easier to acknowledge a short coming and try to improve on it than to put my back up against the wall and say something like....

....IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE WAY I TYPE, DON'T READ MY POSTS, IDIOT!!!!

Sometimes you just have to call it like it is !!! OH AND (Psst..You have quite a few miss spelled words and grammatical errors in your post above you may want to edit it and correct it) Hows that for "constructive criticism" ?

QUITE A FEW ??? Please point all of them out me, Jam. I'll correct them all if you could just help me out....It's misspelled; one word, not two.

This thread makes me think a bit about the concept of practice. I think the songs I enjoy karaoke-ing the most are the ones I have watched least on the internet. There is always the sense of adventure when you take a song that you think you know from hearing it on the radio and try it out in karaoke--of course this means there is the chance of disaster as well. It may take you several tries to really learn it. On the other hand, there are songs that I kind of knew but then watched several times on youtube to really learn them well (for example Something About You by Level 42). Karaoke-ing these was still fun, but not quite as much fun. It's almost like I knew the song to well before I got up there and sang it. There is something about the element of adventure...

I think ideally in karaoke, one should hear a complete train wreck fairly often. One has to scribble first before they become an artist, no?

I, for one, am one of those people that go to karaoke hoping to avoid the train wreck performances. I find nothing wrong with 4 or 5 hours of good performance after good performance. I think the people that practice their songs at home so they can put on a good "show", deserve credit for putting in the time to entertain their friends to the best of their ability. Karaoke is rarely available at a comedy club so I don't think the point is to be funny but to have fun. The train wreck may be fun for some people; even the people performing it, but not for me......and it's even worse when the train wreck is NINE MINUTES LONG like Paradise By The Dashboard Light.

One of the most memorable performances that I have ever seen at karaoke was two guys singing LIKE A VIRGIN by MADONNA. The guys couldn't carry a tune in a bucket but their stage act was hysterical. I'm not against people goofing off on karaoke night. It's just not what I prefer but it is a nice change of pace every now and again.

It seems like the people who can't sing a lick and just want to goof around on stage are the ones who choose the LOOOOOONGEST songs to sing when their turn comes up. Quantity over Quality seems to be their philosophy.

"Someone like me" ......You can't make a post without trying to throw in a dig, huh? Not a problem. I'll get right on those corrections, Jam. Thanks for pointing them out. It was quite a long post and I try to type as quickly as I can using the two finger method. I will try to do better in the future.

I fixed my typo's but put them in (___) so you would know that I wasn't trying to hide the fact that I'm not a perfect typist by any stretch of the imagination.

BRUCE- I'm was trying to point out how childish you were point out my spelling mistakes and calling me a 3rd grader.. Comes around goes around LOL

Getting back to the original OP, Art form, or Fun. First, I might ad, that I am an artist, but on paper, not music. MOSTLY portraits. I would say that karaoke is as much of an art form as a person handing a MONKEY, or ELEPHANT a paint brush, and throwing some paint on a canvas and letting the animal SMEAR it around. Otherwise, EVERYBODY is an ARTIST. ANYBODY, has the opportunity to sing karaoke, but NOT everybody is an ARTIST. So where the idea of karaoke even being considered an ART FORM is beyond me. It could be considered ENTERTAINMENT, FUN, even A TRADE, but an ART FORM, I think is a LITTLE bit of a stretch of the imagination. But then again, I've seen what SOME people call ART.

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