I just don't understand why people wish to stand in front of a room full of drunkard's and belt out disgusting versions of songs that were terrible to begin with. I mean why is it that "Love Shack" gets sung at every karaoke night? Is it a coincidence that it was played at every dance I ever attended from sixth grade on? The same song that twelve year olds were screaming the words to in their [insert appropriate outdated clothing style here] is now being shouted at the Fiddler's Green on Saturday nights? And the DJ! Holy crap! They either don't speak at all or they sound like some reject parody of a 1950's top forty radio announcer. I can just see him (and its always a man, women have much better judgement in this case) crouched in a bathroom stall before he sets up, chugging some kind of verbal laxative that causes him to spout superlatives like a super colon cleanse. "All right! Here comes fantastic Kristi! Super! Wow!"
What is it about our culture that has spawned this evil? There was no Karaoke during the crusades. there was no American Idol (and let's face it, it is the worst kind of karaoke...the kind where people think it matters) during the French and Indian War. The book of Ecclesiastes tells us that there is nothing new under the sun...then where the hell did this crap come from?
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