What It’s Like: In A Karaoke Bar in Hong Kong
(Hong Kong, China) See the previous post “Where I come from, I am The King of Karaoke,” before watching this video. Shot in Neway Karaoke in Mong Kong, Hong Kong, China, the group includes my 59-year old American parents (the stars), my brother, myself and my friends from China, Hong Kong, Cameron and the US. You have to watch it twice, because it’s funny for two reasons.
First, watch it to see just how good I am at karaoke (as a matter of fact, I’m not shy to say, that the first time I saw this video I mistakenly, thought The Beatles WERE actually there.)
Second, and more importantly, pay attention to the karaoke music video at the end of the film. Karaoke music videos in Asia are hilarious. They either can’t afford or choose not to buy the rights to the actual music video or there is no music video, so they substitute extremely low-budget videos set to famous pop songs, and the videos often don’t have anything to do with the song or make any sense for that matter. I find the “music video” for La Bamba absolutely hilarious.
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March 19th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Karaoke King,
This is very interesting. I just did karaoke to “La Bamba” last weekend in Wellington, NZ. We had people from Japan, Mexico, and the US. There must be some cultural bonding quality to it… If you don’t know the words, there’s always “La la la la la la bamba” to bring everyone together. Or in my case, you can just clap and dance and hand the microphone over to the women in the sombrero, from Mexico, who knows the song by heart.
Cheers,
Abbie