Karaoke singer attacked after starting song
Woman punches man on stage
(from the Seattle P-I)
It could have been the Coldplay song "Yellow" that upset the patron of a Wallingford neighborhood bar. Or perhaps it was the karaoke singer who belted it out.
Employees at Changes, on North 45th Street, said they don't know, but the ensuing melee just past 1 a.m. Thursday was one unlike anything seen at the bar before.
As soon as the man on stage started singing about the stars in his best Chris Martin impersonation, the woman reportedly said: "Oh, no, not that song. I can't stand that
song!"
Witnesses said her distaste for Coldplay quickly took a violent turn, and she leaped at the would-be crooner, shouting expletives and telling him that his singing "sucked," while expressing the same opinion of the song, according to a Seattle police report.
She pushed the man and punched him, all in an effort to stop his singing. . .
"[w]hat was any art but ... a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose." - Willa Cather, Song of the Lark
Friday, August 10, 2007
Why song choice is very important
I'm guessing there was more going on with the woman than just disliking one guy's song --and anyway, the point of karaoke is that performers can sing whatever they damn well please! But we've been to karaoke night at the place where this happened:
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I don't know. That's a pretty annoying song. And if there's something worse than Chris Martin's voice, it may be someone impersonating Chris Martin's voice.
One of the regulars sang it the other day as a joke at the place we go for karaoke, and about four people pretended to rush the stage and throw punches. It was pretty funny.
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