Word: songfulness
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Brooklyn-based writer and karaoke obsessive Brian Raftery has written a book about his passion for belting out songs in public. Don't Stop Believing: How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life follows the hobby from its Japanese origins across the ocean to America and into Raftery's heart. With over ten years of karaoke experience, from the cheaply produced laser discs to live action performances backed by the Georgia-based indie rock group Of Montreal, Raftery has sung it all. TIME talks to him about his obsession, his fondness for an obscure Ghostbuster's II song...
...many songs do you think you've sung? A conservative estimate is maybe 1,000 songs. It may be closer to 1,500. It sounds like a lot, but certain nights it would just be me and a couple friends and we'd sing 20 songs each, so that would add up over time. But yeah, it's got to be at least 1,500. And certainly 100 of those would be "Sister Christian" by Night Ranger, which is the song we sort of did to death...
...60th birthday of Prince Charles and the board game by creating a portrait of the Prince entirely composed of Scrabble tiles.) In countries like Senegal, Scrabble is an official sport. In fact, when Senegal hosted the French Scrabble World championship this summer, its government commissioned a special Scrabble song to mark the occasion. (See the 50 best inventions...
...when I returned home recently and began playing music with four-on-the-floor beats, hi-hats, vampy singers, and a fair amount of cowbelling, she was surprised to say the least. The disco I was playing is not the capital-D Disco of wedding receptions and campaign theme songs. It’s a dance music made in the early 70s by all-embracing, forward-thinking people, and it’s been overshadowed by the more garish, less nuanced music of the latter part of that decade. Genre, race, class, and sexual orientation had no bearing on what...
...eternal damnation—the Voldemort of the rock world. The group has never made an album better than their 1987 debut “Appetite for Destruction”—one of the best hard rock records ever—and has never written a song better than “Welcome to the Jungle,” that album’s unforgettable first track. Two decades and four albums later, the band has hit its nadir. “Chinese Democracy,” their first album of original songs in 17 years, is thoroughly...