There is nothing in the Karaoke article that should give musicians cause for undue alarm. The karaoke phenomenon is arguably nothing more than group Nintendo playing and if that's what makes the club owner money so be it. To me - of greater cause for concern is the movement away from melody and harmony in pop music - and the way that intensive studio production removes much of that music from the ability of the entertainer to reproduce it the way musicians are accustomed to learning and playing it for audiences such as music of the 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s and much of the 80s did. Country may be an exception. Much of Karaoke is centered in the past and its patrons often resemble old sing along get togethers - but often with a very weird disconnect. If pop music continues its divergent tracks with heavy bass and drum garbage on one end and over produced studio stuff on the other - what music will entertainers have to choose from?

So much for rambling on a wednesday morning

MH