My Singing Valentine
Since I've moved to LA, it's become an annual tradition to spend Valentine's weekend at Yuu Yuu karaoke club on Sawtelle. Last year, we had such a blast that we invited three unknown girls into our room and the guys all serenaded them with "Sweet Child O' Mine". This year was no disappointment either. A few highlights:
1) Jamie doing Britney Spears' "Lucky". Yeah, I admit it, I have once listened to (and probably sang in the car to) Britney Spears in my life. I might even have that song memorized.
2) John Law doing the Footloose dance. The picture will be posted as soon as I figure out how to download it from my digital camera (yes, I finally got a digital camera -- why do you think I started blogging in the first place?)
3) The perennial Coldplay songs. Somehow we always end up singing "Yellow" and "In My Place" together en masse. In fact, I think I started liking Coldplay only after trying to sing Yellow last year (by the way, how is yellow supposed to be a color for a love song? isn't that the color of jaundice?) Anyway, this year, after we're all melodramatic from singing "In My Place", I make the ill-timed comment "Hey, I guess I'm not the only one who finds myself 'In My Place' alone on Valentine's Day!" A forced chuckle and awkward silence follows.
4) "All or Nothing". A few months ago, during another karaoke fest, I started busting out in this song by O-Town (yet another teenybopper act). Not sure what came over me, but I literally started crawling on the floor at the feet of some random girl I had just met as I cried out the lyrics to the song... "Is this how it ends with a simple telephone call, you leave me here with nothing at all!" Anyway, this time I found out it was Esther Lee's birthday so I decided to make a go at that whole act again just to put her on the spot and humiliate her. The look of disgust on her face was priceless... and yes, I have been known to easily shame myself at times.
5) The Macarena. No one does that song to sing it. It's really just an excuse to get up and dance the macarena.
posted by jkung925 @ 2:15 PM
2 Comments:
i like o-town! and i used to teach the macarena to adults and kids in beijing.
it's so sad but i haven't listened to the radio lately so i wouldn't be able to recognize most of those songs if i heard them...i seem to like driving in silence lately...except my car makes rice-rocket-like noises at certain speeds. in those moments, i keep playing the same watermark CD over and over again
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