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Where liquid courage meets a microphone and friendships are tested.
means Singing along to pre-recorded instrumental tracks with the lyrics on a screen, usually in front of people who will remember every wrong note.
from From Japanese 'karaoke' (カラオケ), a blend of 'kara' meaning 'empty' and 'oke', a shortened form of 'okesutora' (orchestra) — literally 'empty orchestra,' since the band's music is there but the band isn't. It emerged in Japan around the 1970s alongside the rise of machines that let singers perform over instrumental tracks, and the word rode those machines straight into global vocabulary.
- origin
- Japanese for empty orchestra, karappo plus okesutora
- invented by
- Daisuke Inoue, never patented it, stayed poor
- crowd favorite
- Bohemian Rhapsody empties rooms faster than fire alarms
- science says
- singing badly in public still releases real endorphins