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personally, I'm an isolationist, and as far as I'm concerned, you and the rest of Europe could be speaking German right now.....

I think CostaKaraoke & a few with provocative comments took this thread way down south. Just saying.....

Jon WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!! If you have something to say just say it less of the cryptic crap, or are you afraid of being watched

He was talking about history - he was saying that we should not have gotten involved in WWII and saved you and the other Europeans from Hitler.

Anyway seems poor old Piers is going to be deported as well.

I'm not a KJ, but a singer here on SS, and I happened to see this convo on the Twitter feed and found it fascinating.

Of course the real-life shootings are awful, especially this recent one, and that idiot guy in karaoke should not have made those comments. Appropriate action was taken.

But about the song...

I'm 51, so I don't hear too many of the newer songs (don't listen to the radio too often), but sometimes I will hear them here on SS, or on the radio somewhere while out, and think, that's a pretty song, or that is catchy, and then look it up. One of those I looked up this past year was "Pumped up Kicks" because I kept hearing it a lot (very popular) and it is very catchy and also a little retro-sounding. I couldn't understand the words except for "all the other kids".

I thought the words were pretty clever. It's obviously meant to be evocative of things like Columbine. Just looking at the song on the fact of it, my own interpretation, it's about teens, not little kids. It's about a neglected kid who finds his dad's gun and takes it to school to start shooting the other kids. So you could get from the lyrics that it's saying if you neglect your kids, they will act out in anger (and also they will get hold of your liquor, cigarettes and guns).

You can read more about it at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped_Up_Kicks
as the song's author talks about why he wrote it, and that it's from the POV of the kid, and that he actually wrote it to promote awareness of gun violence.

As for censoring songs in karaoke, of course if you're a KJ or bar owner you can have whatever songs you want, but just me, personally, as a singer, I would probably not go back to a show that did that (if I knew they were doing that) unless I really really loved the place. I went to one censored show years ago in Vegas. It was so ridiculous, too, because 1) it was in Vegas, and 2) it was in a bar called "The Ho" on the sleaziest street near the Strip where all the strip clubs are! So, it was very silly to censor it-- it's not like they were having a lot of children there. I sang the Broadway song "Dance: Ten, Looks: Three", the chorus of which is "Tits and <span style=font-size:10px><i>(@$%&#!)</i></span>", and the KJ muted me every time there was a bad word! That was the other ridiculous thing - if you're going to censor, then at least just take the song out, or warn people you are going to do that. It was very disconcerting because all I could tell was that the mic was not working at times. She was not that close by, so I kept looking over at her quizzically, but she didn't tell me anything. Anyway, it was bad show, and I would never go back even if they were still in business.

As for the idea that getting rid of guns or assault weapons would not lessen the shootings... of course it would. Saying "they would find some other way" is a poor excuse because then why have ANY laws? Why have rape laws? Rapists will find a way around them. Why have traffic laws? People speed anyway. So that's just ludicrous. Of course we should do whatever we can to prevent these kind of shootings. We have more gun deaths BY FAR than any other western country and it's just crazy.

OK, enough of my soapbox

You could get your hands on a big truck or SUV and easily run over 20 or more people in a crowded parking lot or playground before the police could get there to stop you.

Some of you are acting like some of the (not meaning anybody on here ) morons on singsnap taking (@$%&#!) way to damn serious and out of context
has got nothing to do with singing or karaoke .
and also your making it about other (@$%&#!) instead of what the real issue was or is
take a chill pill and go some place else and settle down .

that's the one damn thing I hated really and truly hated about singsnap's message board , all the time people were fighting about stuff that wasn't the issue of what the post was
and turned it into a angry mob crap .
please don't let that happen on here because that was truly an ugly sight to see on singsnap and I hate to see that happening on here

It's ilke 6 degrees of separation. Everything is related to everything else if you make enough jumps.

try skipping over posts that you don't want to get involved in.