ayumi_nagumo 0 Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 I love it. Do you like it? Link to post Share on other sites
ONIP 0 Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 The kind in a boozer on Brighton Pier after mucho beer - yes. The kind in a serious 'snack' bar here in Japan - nooooooooo. Link to post Share on other sites
oblivion 5 Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Very rarely. Sometimes it is most definitely a grind. Link to post Share on other sites
damian 0 Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 No, karaoke is one thing that I really do not enjoy. I am certainly the odd man out in this respect Link to post Share on other sites
zwelgen 0 Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Yes, I have had many good nights and hazy memories of karaoke. Not the snack bar places but the karaoke booths with mates and sometimes nomihodai. Yep great nights Link to post Share on other sites
powwwers 0 Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 karaoke is F U N, fun. yav just gotta find tha song thats right for YOU, then yar set! there is at least one song thats right for you. its like anythin else thats fun- its what you make of it. sliding on tha snow is fun bcos you make it that way. do tha same with tha big K, and you`ll have a ball. just a thought... Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Nope db you aren't alone. I dont like it either. But they may have something to do with the fact that i can't sing to save myself. Even if i could i doubt i'd enjoy it. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Don't get me started on karaoke >> I'm convinced lots of Japanese who go don't really like it either. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 I dont like karaoke. It doesnt help that I am totally off key at all times. Link to post Share on other sites
Karnidge 2 Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 It depends on the company, the karaoke bar, and alcohol intake. I have had some good karaoke nights recently. (And some nightmares in the past too). Link to post Share on other sites
nekobi 0 Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 i totally suck at karaoke- so offkey, but i love it. i gotta have some liquid courage in me to really get into it and belt out the tunes. Link to post Share on other sites
Antonio 0 Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 I found i started to enjoy it a bit more when i learnt a couple of Japanese songs. The amusement of seeing a gaijin trying to sing a Japanese song seems to take the focus off my shocking voice!! Link to post Share on other sites
green 0 Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 I get enough attention as it is, don't need any more. Link to post Share on other sites
LiquidX 0 Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 I had one of the "fun" karaoke experiences the other night for a change. I actually enjoyed it - some decent songs for once, good company lots of booze, lots of females. Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 Before I came here I would have said no thanks, but I have actually really enjoyed myself a few times. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 A lot of alcohol is necessary though isn't it folks...? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 I find a good snort of poppers between verses can make the experience altogether more gemutlich... Link to post Share on other sites
badmigraine 0 Posted April 16, 2003 Share Posted April 16, 2003 Karaoke is probably the one thing that I hate most about Japan and some other Asian countries. I absolutely loathe and actively despise everything about it. I never wanted to sing to my friends, or listen to them sing to me. Even if I did, it would have to be original compositions, not crappy Casio-tone beat J-pop garbage, or drunken slurring to some Queen or Sinatra song. And what's with the ear-piercing volume, the whiskey on the rocks, the thick cigarette-smoke-in-a-box, the forced gaiety... I hate the way, after a nomikai, when all are milling around near the cash register, someone always says "How about a nijikai?" and someone replies "Oh, what a great idea...um, what shall we do?" There is a moment of silence while everyone is presumably racking their brains for some idea, any idea of what we could all possibly do for a nijikai. Inevitably, the lightning strike of inspiration reveals itself and somebody says in inquisitive tones, "What about karaoke?" "OH FANTASTIC, II IDEA DESU NE! KARAOKE! KARAOKE NI SHIYO!!" Heads immediately begin nodding as the greatness of this original idea dawns on the assembled partygoers. Karaoke! What an excellent idea! Forget about going home to read a book or exercise, forget about going to a bar or a dance club, forget about a walk in the park or going to bed early or just saying bye-bye to be with, oh, I don't know, your wife and kids? Your fiancee? Your girlfriend? Your REAL mates? I hate the way almost all pop music in Japan is intentionally made so that it can be whined by even the most tone-deaf karaoke goers...in the horrifically stunted, programmed, marketed world of J-Pop you'll find hardly any trained voices, original-sounding voices, singers with good pitch (i.e., non tone-deaf), non-nasal voices, etc. Even most J-Pop singers are just doing karaoke in front of a mike in the studio, or with faceless studio musicians told what to play by some producer. I hate the piercing whiney refrain of strange, totally incorrect and irrelevant English oddly placed in the middle of a J-Pop song that you sometimes hear through the glass at a karaoke box. I hate the idea of having to pay thousands of yen for this torture. I hate the dread of going out with company people because it will always end in the bully-boy showdown of everyone kowtowing to the kachou or buchou or some liver-spotted twerp who suggests karaoke when almost everyone would rather just get out of there. And, I hate the feigned surprise when I reply to the question "Don't you like karaoke?" with the truth, "No, I don't..." I really, really, really, REALLY hate karaoke!! Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted April 16, 2003 Share Posted April 16, 2003 You don't need to hate Karaoke so much. It's OK if people can enjoy it. I used to enjoy Karaoke after nomikai, but I go home when my friends go to Karaoke now. I prefer chatting with my friends. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted April 16, 2003 Share Posted April 16, 2003 Croaky with Japanese people can be a real drag, but with some choice mates it can be fun. You don't have to sing beatles songs, you can all sing at the same time even if you don't have a mike, nobody smokes (at least not in the box), it's cheaper than every alternative, most Canadians, Brits and Australians can actually sing quite well, and there's no need for forced gaiety with poppers. But I hated croaky for years until I started refusing to go with certain types of people. Having said that though, a sing-song with a guitar and harmonica is always going to be more fun than with an empty orchestra. Link to post Share on other sites
rajeem 0 Posted April 18, 2003 Share Posted April 18, 2003 Great post badmigraine! I know how you feel. Link to post Share on other sites
yodel 0 Posted April 19, 2003 Share Posted April 19, 2003 I have been known to enjoy it too, and hate it on occasion. I hate it when it gets too serious and people do their coordinated clapping and gay moves. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 Anyone here know any Japanese songs for the karaoke? Link to post Share on other sites
xxx 2 Posted April 20, 2003 Share Posted April 20, 2003 When I first came here I learnt a simple Japanese enka and sang it badly, people had a good time laughing at me. I don't do that party trick any more. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted April 21, 2003 Share Posted April 21, 2003 I used to have my own enka to "perform" at first, bit I too have grown out of that and not into performing the little gaijin tricks anymore. Link to post Share on other sites
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