Living this life is like trying to learn Latin in a Chinese firedrill

[gemfyre]

I've come to the sad conclusion that about half the people who listen to music don't actually LISTEN to the music AT ALL.

Why do I say this? Because half the people at karaoke sing songs that they apparently love or that are just the classics that everyone knows AND THEY FUCK IT UP! I think to myself "Have you ever heard this song before in your life?" because they fuck it up so badly. I just don't get how it can happen. You supposedly love this song, but you can't even remember how it goes let alone the words.

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[imaginor.livejournal.com]

I don't know how it is there but my experience is that most of the people who get up and do karaoke have had way too many to drink and thus of course just ruin the song. I have only gotten up to sing a handful of times myself which would only be after lots of beer was consumed. I sang Janis Joplin's "me and bobby mcgee" twice, Cyndi Lauper's "true colors", there's another one but I can't remember what it was, then there was Madonna's "like a virgin" that me and one of my friends put in this guy's name to go sing that I knew at the bar so my friend and I went up with him to sing the song, that was so funny :)

The point I'm trying to get to is that if they are like the people I know who do karaoke then they probably do know the song it's just that they can't do the song justice because they've had a few too many.