Why we K

The teenagers on vacation jobs at Kbox must be really puzzled when they passed by our cubicle.

Karaoke outings with nostalgic me and my bunch of nostalgic friends has always been for songs from the decades passed. The songs we sang on the bus while going out for primary school excursions. Sappy love songs with music videos of heavily made up singers wearing padded blouses, and the loud band songs with ridiculous dance moves and outfits that never leave out the skin-tight leather trousers. Once, we even put on songs from our mothers’ generation.

It’s never about pitch perfect singing at karaokes. It’s precisely the songs that are impossible to sing without going off-key, voice breaking and bursting into laughter at some point in time that are so fun. Somehow, retro songs do the trick. Old songs always give me the feeling of “they never make them anymore”. Or maybe it just takes the going-out-of-fashion part to put the enjoyment  into some things.

Yesterday, when I told my dad I was going to karaoke, he was surprised and asked me, “But why? I don’t even hear you sing at home.”

Well, at karaoke sessions, we laugh more than we sing, which is where all the enjoyment is.