{"id":415,"date":"2004-02-04T11:37:24","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T11:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2020-11-10T21:38:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T02:38:01","slug":"when_rockstars_karaoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"when rockstars karaoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-paragraph\">[ <b>current selection<\/b> | violet vs. mantronik \u2013 <i>burn the elastic<\/i> ]<br>[ <b>feelin\u2019<\/b> | <i>hungry<\/i> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">funny article (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormwerks.com\/linked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#!\/usr\/bin\/girl<\/a>) about the new game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playstationmagazine.com\/article2\/0,4364,1390942,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">karaoke revolution<\/a>. the official playstation magazine thought it would be funny if they got four of the bands actually featured in the game to karaoke to their own songs and see how they did. r.e.m., hoobastank, barenaked ladies, and gin blossoms went at it to see who karaoked the best to their own songs. hoobastank and barenaked ladies got hosed\u2026with ed robertson of barenaked ladies doing a better rendition of cyndi laupers \u201c<i>girls just wanna have fun<\/i>\u201d than his own song \u201c<i>one week<\/i>.\u201d quote robertson\u2026\u201d<i>I\u2019m very alarmed by the fact that I performed Cyndi Lauper better than I performed Ed Robertson\u2026I\u2019m actually quite sexually confused about that right now. I might need a little time to work that out.<\/i>\u201d robin wilson of gin blossoms actually destroyed all with his score of 49,830\u2026actually outscoring michael stipe with his own rendition of \u201c<i>its the end of the world as we know it<\/i>\u201c. rock on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">while we\u2019re on the subject of <i>karaoke<\/i>, ill even throw in this bit of fyi for everybody. while alot of people have probably been told that <i>karaoke<\/i> means \u201c<i>tone deaf<\/i>\u201d in japanese (which would be pretty fitting)\u2026it actually means \u201c<i>empty orchestra<\/i>\u201c. its a combination of two words, <i>karappo<\/i> (empty) and <i>okesutura<\/i> (orchestra), shortened to <i>kara-oke<\/i>. music history yo\u2026and i still bombed the class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playstationmagazine.com\/article2\/0,4364,1390942,00.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">karaoke battle-of-the-bands<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormwerks.com\/linked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#!\/usr\/bin\/girl<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"415\" height=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/karaoke1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/karaoke1.jpg 415w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/karaoke1-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/karaoke1-250x66.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ current selection | violet vs. mantronik \u2013 burn the elastic ][ feelin\u2019 | hungry ] funny article (via #!\/usr\/bin\/girl) about the new game karaoke revolution. the official playstation magazine thought it would be funny if they got four of the bands actually featured in the game to karaoke to their own songs and see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8479,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/8479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}