26.9.11

Sing like a Banana




So a couple weekends ago we went on a karaoke adventure! But I'm lazy, so you don't get to hear about it until now. There's karaoke parlours all over the place here, but we went to one called Banana Voice. What banana's have to do with singing karaoke I have no idea, but it's rather fabulous. Much more interesting than the rather popular karaoke business name of 'Karaoke Idol'. Those are everywhere. But anyway, Banana Voice!


Depending on when you go, for how long you go, and how many people there are, the prices vary. For 6 people for 2 hours on a Saturday night it worked out to be 1000yen per person, which everyone said was a good deal, and since it was my first time in a karaoke place, I'm just going to believe them.

We got our own little room with low couches and a table, a big screen to read lyrics off of, and a mini stage. When singing a song, a video played behind the lyrics, but most of the videos were really random videos of Japanese people and not related to the actual song at all. It was like random people music video stock footage. I'm wondering how they figured out what video to pair with each song, if when the made the lyrics and stuff, it got picked and bundled in, or if what played depended on certain keywords in the songs. It was very random anyway. Every once in a while we found a song that had an actual music video with it. Exciting!

 Michael and Kayla singing while Jake looks dead.

 Ryan fabulously modeling the fancy electronics we used to find music and program it in.

 Our beauty karaoke room. The diamonds on the wall are to keep score I think? I never quite figured it out.

 Saki and Ryan excel at singing in Japanese.

 I, however, sang Journey on the little stage with Kayla. Everyone loves Journey.  If you say you don't, you're just lying to yourself.

Michael has spiderman socks!

 Kayla modeling the giant beer cans this place had.

Yay, Banana Voice! In the rain... crazy typhoons.

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