(Killer Karaoke In The Philippines) Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord

The New York Times ^ | February 6, 2010 | NORIMITSU ONISHI

[DogByte6RER]

Whoa!

My wife is pressuring me to vacation in the Philippines this year. My singing sucks, soooo...

I'll avoid the karaoke bars.

[DogByte6RER]

ping

[exnavy]

Weird.

[ozark hilljilly]

Regrets?
I’ve had a few....

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Try this Sinatra tune:

http://www.animatronics.org/strangers/strangers.htm

[BerryDingle]

I get that way when I hear Liza Minelli sing New York, New York.

[Cheetahcat]

LOL My Filipina wife verified that they do get enraged over the songs sung in the bars and killings do happen,She said they are crazy.

[Justaham]

I was in General Santos City for work years ago. During one of my free evenings, my colleagues and I went to see a movie, starring one of Philippine’s most famous leading men. When the leading man was punched, kicked and mauled by the ‘bad men’ in the movie, the Muslims in the region started firing at the screen to ‘save’ the leading man. It was chaos inside the movie house to say the least.

FYI - Gen. Santos City is in Cotabato, located in the southern part of the Phils., and 95% populated by Muslims.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Don’t sing “I Left My Heart In San Fransisco” otherwise some joker will do just that there in the Philippines.

[mylife]

[Psycho_Bunny]

Red Horse! A Filipino co-worker of mine brought me a bottle once. I hadn’t really thought about how important recycling would be on an island until I saw how beat to hell the bottle was....lol

[HerrBlucher]

Seems like justifiable homicide to me. I am Sinatra fan, but I cannot stand that song.

[mylife]

Pretty Stout stuff!

[Broker]

Our filipino friends take hollywierd seriously and have a genetic trait called running amuck. Brought on by drugs and alcohol.

[Cheetahcat]

I was in General Santos City for work years ago. During one of my free evenings, my colleagues and I went to see a movie, starring one of Philippine’s most famous leading men. When the leading man was punched, kicked and mauled by the ‘bad men’ in the movie, the Muslims in the region started firing at the screen to ‘save’ the leading man. It was chaos inside the movie house to say the least.

FYI - Gen. Santos City is in Cotabato, located in the southern part of the Phils., and 95% populated by Muslims.

This happens in the northern provinces as well.

[Bigg Red]

To me it’s perfectly understandable. I want to kill Sinatra every time I hear him sing that awful song— even though he’s already dead.

[Lockbar]

"Our filipino friends take hollywierd seriously and have a genetic trait called running amuck. Brought on by drugs and alcohol."

Running amuck!! Facinating, just looked it up on wikipedia. I am always interested in learning where linguistics terms come from. You are right Amuck is a Malay-Indonesian-Phillipine term for going nuts and stabbing to death everybody you can get your hands on. Never knew where that word came from.

[Neidermeyer]

I really tempted fate a few years ago ,, back then I had a Pioneer box that stripped vocals so you could sing and after hearing all the sappy songs “paper roses” , various carpenters hits etc. etc.) I put on the Sex Pistols/Sid Vicious version of “My Way” ... I had fun but nobody “got it” .. oh well I have a “magic sing” now and have mastered the tricks to getting a high score (your singing can stink and still score well)... The stupid thing came with a full 17 minute Innagoddadavida ...