Damn, damn, damn. I don’t see any way out of it. I’m pretty much committed to joining 12 or 15 colleagues for KTV next Friday. Hell, I never sing in public, especially in front of my colleagues. And me, the adogah, I expect they’ll be amused to see how foreign man sings.
Not looking forward to this. I made excuse that i have to leave early, but didn’t have the guts to back out completely, as I sort of admitted already that I would attend, and it is a farewell for one colleague, but. . … :s
Why couldn’t they go bowling instead?
This will certainly call for copious bottles of Tai-Pi.
They want atoga singing? Give them atoga singing: prepare your repertoire beforehand. Proud Mary is always a hit. I will survive and stuff like that. Atoga does not do mandarin unless it is 3 tigers or Moonlight expresses my feelings.
When you are between a rock and a hard place, at least you can choose if you’ll take it belly up or down…
I just ignore the locals so I simply didn’t respond when they said I should sing.
Sounds arrogant I know but it is my personal way to avoid 99% of hassles others have with the locals.
No singing. Do dancing. No bottom up. No jokes. No anything.
Been dragged into this more times than I can count, usually with copious amounts of alcohol. One Korean boss I was with gave me the insight to this, he sang terribly, I mean it was awful. But it was loud and looked like he enjoyed himself and didnt give a damm what people thought about him. everyone thought it was a hoot, compare that to the American guy, very shy , wanted to sing beautifully and was ever so nervous and squeaked like a mouse, everyone took pity. Sing loud, look like you are having a great time, dont care what people think, avoid Michael Jackson and one song is enough for you to avoid an other if you dont like.
why not just sing the ‘wo ai ni’…the husband sings it everytime and gets the thumbs up from the men and a batting of the eyelids and jump uppy claps from the ladies!
MT, Hotel California is my signature English song at a KTV. It’s very easy to hit the notes, and it’s a lot of fun to sing after a few brews. I’d go with that one.
An easy song to learn in Mandarin is “The Moon Represents my Heart” (月亮代表我的心). It’s a classic. If you can sing that one, you’ll be a giant hit at the party.