Did you know that the word "Karaoke" means "empty orchestra" in Japanese? I know it's hauntingly beautiful, whatever that means. When you sing Karaoke, you sing into a microphone, a song that is blaring through a sound system as if it were played on an Ipod. So, yes, the orchestra is empty, there is no one playing into instruments to make music. But Karaoke is anything but empty. Karaoke is not something you do by yourself, otherwise you might as well just stick to singing in the shower or in the car. No, what makes Karaoke fun, what makes people want to go sing karaoke, is being with people, and laughing at each other. Karaoke is a fun time to get together with friends, hang out, have fun and sing songs. Singing karaoke is a fun time to get silly and sing your favorite songs, even if you can't sing (like myself).
One of my favorite moments from last year happened back in January. Crash hosted a Karaoke event in the Family Room. Everyone had tons of fun singing songs and listening to their friends sing songs. It was great to see everyone get up on stage and sing the YMCA while doing the hand motions, and watching all the girls get up and sing Mamma Mia was a lot of fun. But my favorite part of the night is when I got up with all the guys to sing awesome fun songs like Yellow Submarine, Eye Of The Tiger and We Are The Champions. I will never forget that night, forever in my mind it will always be known as "good times". In fact, they were such good times, that we are going to do it again. Junior high students are welcome and encouraged to join us tomorrow night from 5-8:30 PM up in the Loft to sing some fun songs that everyone is bound to know. I hope to see you all there.
No comments:
Post a Comment