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Where does karaoke videos come from?

23rd April 2007

Marxy has this really funny mock dialogue on his blog. It explains the thinking behind karaoke videos:

—Okay, I like this idea of taking karaoke out of the nighttime snack bar and putting it into “boxes” all around the country. Like a franchise.
—Right. I think it’s going to be big.
—One little question though: what are we going to do about the visuals?
—Yeah.
—I mean, the rooms are going to be all colorful and fancy and loud, and then you’ll look at the screen…
—The screen and…
—Yeah, and it will just be text on black.
—No, no. We are going to make videos for the songs.
—Videos?
—Videos.
—For each song? There must be like… 5,000 songs out there.
—No, no. Not for each song. Like we will make, I dunno, 100 videos. Maybe 200 over time, and they will be attached to the songs in a pattern so that you never really see repeats.
—But they won’t fit with the theme of the individual songs.
—Who cares?
—I dunno. If it’s a song about the sorrow of losing one’s love while fishing, you can’t have some guy playing guitar in Washington Square Park.

Read the rest at http://neomarxisme.com/

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