{"id":2635,"date":"2010-02-07T15:14:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T19:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2010-02-07T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T19:16:13","slug":"philippine-music-critics-over-react-to-my-way-karaoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/07\/philippine-music-critics-over-react-to-my-way-karaoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine music critics over-react to “My Way” karaoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a karaoke fan, but even I think that this<\/a> is a bit of over-reaction to bad singing:<\/p>\n

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The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling \u201cMy Way\u201d in karaoke bars over the years in the Philippines, or how many fatal fights it has fueled. But the news media have recorded at least half a dozen victims in the past decade and includes them in a subcategory of crime dubbed the \u201cMy Way Killings.\u201d<\/p>\n

The killings have produced urban legends about the song and left Filipinos groping for answers. Are the killings the natural byproduct of the country\u2019s culture of violence, drinking and machismo? Or is there something inherently sinister in the song?<\/p>\n

Whatever the reason, many karaoke bars have removed the song from their playbooks. And the country\u2019s many Sinatra lovers, like Mr. Gregorio here in this city in the southernmost Philippines, are practicing self-censorship out of perceived self-preservation.<\/p>\n

Karaoke-related killings are not limited to the Philippines. In the past two years alone, a Malaysian man was fatally stabbed for hogging the microphone at a bar and a Thai man killed eight of his neighbors in a rage after they sang John Denver\u2019s \u201cTake Me Home, Country Roads.\u201d Karaoke-related assaults have also occurred in the United States, including at a Seattle bar where a woman punched a man for singing Coldplay\u2019s \u201cYellow\u201d after criticizing his version. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to Walter Olsen<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not a karaoke fan, but even I think that this is a bit of over-reaction to bad singing: The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling \u201cMy Way\u201d in karaoke bars over the years in the Philippines, or how many fatal fights it has fueled. But the news media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[86,200,485,239],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","tag-criticism","tag-music","tag-philippines","tag-scary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Gv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}