The Underappreciated And Possibly Lucrative Art of Karaoke Video!

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If I can make a career filming my neighbor playing air guitar on his second story balcony while cutting to my female friends doing 80s dances in a 5-frame-per-second strobe effect, I would be king.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 22 February 2004 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Sounds better than the music videos of today.

Go forth and film!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Where does the 'lucrative' part come in?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 February 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Making the people laugh, making the film popular?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Approaching karaoke machine distribution companies with your worthwhile video interpretations of Human League's "Don't You Want Me", Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name", Dolly Parton's "9 to 5", and Color Me Badd's "I Wanna Sex You Up"?

It's all about the lazy 80s dances of the girls in that slow strobe effect. It's mesmerizing, and bar patrons eat it up.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 22 February 2004 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't forget Baltimora's "Tarzan Boy". Actually, if you could just strip the vocals out of the original video you could easily license it to karaoke companies.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 22 February 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

There were only two videos at the karaoke last night, one seemed to be a standard "pretty ladies on a boat, with the waves and the sun (and the lotion)", which was attached rather randomly to Losing My Religion (!) and one for Love Shack, which seemed determined to recreate the ambience of the original video, with a cast of four and a budget of a fiver.

Also Love Shack is three years long, WTF.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 April 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4cQ3BoHFas

You gotta persist to the 40 second mark.

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 8 November 2007 07:15 (eighteen years ago)

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