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i haven't seen the movie "duets" yet

anyone out there has written short stories, poems, etc about karaoke?

i've written a couple of poems about DJing. none published tho

now, i've got a movie idea about karaoke. anyone got any hollywood hookups? heh

anyone else out there got ideas for a karaoke movie?

who would star in it? got a title? rough draft? heh

my karaoke movie would have as many cameos from famous singers/artists from different genres (unrecognizable at first) if i could

i'd try to put in as many karaoke cliches as i could throughout as a nod to all my KJs out there

i was thinking to have jennifer lawrence star as the main character karaoke singer. now i'm thinking i need someone who can sing so maybe jordin sparks

i want a nerdish type for the KJ. maybe a jaleel white/urkel without the glasses or playing urkel. or maybe the bazinga guy from big bang theory. or maybe I'll play it. ha. i can act dammit

who out there wanna be in my movie? ha

any "must" scenes for my or any karaoke movie?

haven't thought about it until this moment. but i'm gonna have a mic-dropping scene in my movie so i can for once and for all show MFers around the world why you don't wanna do that.

i don't want this to be a musical but i want a lot of music in it. and i want a banging soundtrack.

& i wanna put in a lot of thought-provoking dialogue about karaoke in it.

too bad whitney's not around anymore. i'd like her to be in a scene.

i'd like to get in or mention as many cliche karaoke songs as I can but i don't wanna overdo it

Trust me... you don't want to. Have you seen "Jackpot"? It's just as phony as "Duets" was, and almost as bad.




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A scene where multiple people keep coming up to the KJ and asking when they're up. Also show some of them giving their reasons/excuses as to why they must sing next, and the KJ's snappy responses back.

A scene where you have a couple of people sitting at a table and having a normal conversation and they're not paying any attention to the current Singer, and then the Diva (while still singing) approaches their table and sings right at them (to force their attention upon him/her) (Yes... I know someone who does that (alot)).

Let's add in a Fight scene.... Show some Diva picking a fight with another singer who had the audacity to sing said Diva's song.

For some Comic Relief, cast the AFLAC Duck in there singing "Disco Duck."








Well then, you know you're gonna have to include little snippets of the following songs being performed:
Paradise By the Dashboard Lights
Summer Nights
Crazy
I Will Survive
My Way

and after all these have been done, don't forget the scene where the kj is trying to strangle the singer with a mic cord!!

Got to have:

The slimy rival KJ who's chatting up our heroes singers at the show and giving his cards to the bar owner.

The cheap bar owner who's tempted to take whatever the cheapest deal is regardless of quality and who wants to keep the game on for one drunk at the bar while he's got 12 singers waiting to start karaoke.

The bartender who can't make anything but a beer and keeps flashing her fake boobs to get bigger tips and ends up driving the female singers away in the process.

The water sippers who take up the rotation.

The prima donnas who fight over who sings a song.

The rockstar who "everybody wants to hear and has a recording contract"

The girl who wants to move up by rubbing herself all over the KJ.

The woman who needs to move up because "she has to get up and go to work tomorrow."

The briber.

The drunk heckler who pounds down drinks and moons the singers.

The mic tapper, The mic spiker. The whispering screamer dude. The mic cupper. The klutz who trips over his own feet and trashes the tv monitor.

The gang of inebriated dudes who scream the "F bomb" while "performing" "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" falsetto.

The shy karaoke virgin who gets tormented by her friends into singing and rocks the house.

The diva who wants to immediately sing the exact same song that someone else just tanked on.

The walk up singer who wants to join every performance.

The ask every single dude in the bar to sing a duet with me so I can get up again girl.

The snooty group who only clap for people from their table.

The Elvis impersonator with the battery operated hound dog dry humping his leg.

You have to add the sneaky private eye looking for trademark and copyright infringements. He could be seen secretly taking photos of songbooks, and acting like he is photographing a singer while all he is really doing is getting a shot of the TV in the background. He could be seen talking with the host while wearing a button sized camera which is taking pictures of the hosts computer and rig. Take it from there. That in itself could make a movie.

Everything is going great for the main character. He has an all-american girlfriend who loves that he's a karaoke host and attends every show......and they just got a golden retriever puppy together.

The main character loses his gig to an undercutter. The girlfriend can't stand the thought of being with a guy who is NOT a karaoke host, and leaves him.........and also takes the puppy.

After a few nights of crying, hookers, and blow, the main character sucks it up and attends the undercutter's first gig. The undercutter's Behringer mixer breaks 30 minutes into the gig, and the patrons boo him out of the joint.

The bar owner offers him his old job back with a big raise. The first new gig is standing room only. Mylie Cyrus attends the first gig and flirts with the KJ. Just when he's about to close the deal with Mylie, the KJ sees his girlfriend in the crowd, with the puppy. He pushes Mylie aside and reunites with his girlfriend....and the puppy.

The movie ends in an epic duet, complete with the puppy howling at the end as the crowd applauds.

The end. Show me the Oscar!

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C Mc
KJ, FL

TopherM - Wish I could give multiple likes for that one! Made my day!

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-Chris

Too Disney!

excellent responses, everyone

you got me over here laughing out loud

i can't forget, every time the main character KJ tries to start a show for the night, the house jukebox is already playing a song so he has to beg the bartenders to cut it off. when they finally do, the KJ starts playing the same song that was cut off from the beginning. ha!

this movie is writing itself

oh, and there's definitely gonna be a shout out scene to this forum.

You should add that the Girlfriend not only leaves him, but she leaves him for the undercutting KJ.

I keep saying I have to write a karaoke-themed novel for National Novel Writing Month, but November is always too busy for me to bang out a (@$%&#!) 50,000 word novel.

There was a novel, ADVENTURES OF THE KARAOKE KING by Harold Taw that worked surprisingly well as a mystery novel, particularly if you like a slightly nontraditional narrative.

Brian Rafferty's DON'T STOP BELIEVIN': HOW KARAOKE CONQUERED THE WORLD AND CHANGED MY LIFE is a good read if you're into the David Sedaris/Chuck Klosterman/Sarah Vowell type of creative nonfiction.

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Co-host of The Greatest Song Ever Sung (Poorly), a karaoke-themed podcast

It is, of course, crucial to include the scene where five or more inebriated white girls gather around two mics and bray a song enthusiastically. One will inevitably fall over trying to twerk, and the other four will giggle through the bridge. The song is either a '90s girl-power anthem, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", or "Don't Stop Believin'".

Also a scene of a late-'20s bro type spitting the first two lines of a popular rap song before realizing that meter and timing are actually required and sputtering nonsensically through the remainder of the track.

Ooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just thought of a very important scene that you have to include.... The big busted woman who gets up to sing, and then flashes her boobies at the audience mid-performance.