Karaoke videos
Ernest Schaal
the things that I find annoying is that the video usually has nothing to do
with the song. For instance, for the song "I Left My Heart In San Francisco"
had a video of New York City and Hong Kong. What gives?
Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson
I imagine there might be high-class karaoke bars that might actually
play the actual video for the song you choose, but your average few
hundred yen an hour place plays royalty-free generic videos for each
title - I think I've even seen repeats in a single session.
Ken
John W.
always sang 'Yesterday' by the Beatles. My coworkers/students thought I
loved the song; I like it, but the video behind the music showed a very
attractive naked lady sunbathing in a few scenes....
John W.
Dave Fossett
At the places I have been to, the same video scenes are often recycled for
different songs. Maybe it is just random, and the lyrics are just
superimposed by the machine.
--
Dave Fossett
Saitama, Japan
Ernest Schaal
wrote on 9/13/03 11:12 PM:
One of the reasons I often selected "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" is
that I liked the images of San Francisco, having lived in the San Francisco
Bay Area for twenty years. Images of New York don't have the same emotional
impact for me.
Drew Hamilton
Here in Toronto all the karaoke places have the karaoke laserdiscs, rather
than the MIDI music that's used in a lot of places in Japan. So once in a
while we get the actual video, or at least concert footage of the band
performing the song.
What sometimes doesn't make any sense is the lyrics -- I'm guessing that the
songs are transcribed by people who don't have the original lyric sheets,
and who don't know English that well. Memorables ones include:
"Where the New York City waitresses are breeding me" (from The Boxer)
"Build a stairway to heaven with a cream soda by the phone" (from Forever
Young).
- awh
Haluk
yazdı:c3pg31-...@urd.awh.org...
> Ernest Schaal <esc...@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
> >Last weekend we went to a karaoke place for the first time this year. One
of
> >the things that I find annoying is that the video usually has nothing to
do
> >with the song. For instance, for the song "I Left My Heart In San
Francisco"
> >had a video of New York City and Hong Kong. What gives?
>
> Here in Toronto all the karaoke places have the karaoke laserdiscs, rather
> than the MIDI music that's used in a lot of places in Japan. So once in a
> while we get the actual video, or at least concert footage of the band
> performing the song.
>
> What sometimes doesn't make any sense is the lyrics -- I'm guessing that
the
> songs are transcribed by people who don't have the original lyric sheets,
> and who don't know English that well. Memorables ones include:
>
>
> "Build a stairway to heaven with a cream soda by the phone" (from Forever
> Young).
This one makes perfect sense on LSD