Let's KARAOKE!

先週、クラスの担任の先生（ピーター）がパブでイギリスのサッカーチームを応援している姿がBBCニュースで放映された。しかしドイツに負けた次の日、授業を始める前、彼は「今日はサッカーの話はしないでね」と、しょんぼりと告げた。
それはともかく今回はカラオケの話。

今朝、授業の初めにピーターはクラスの皆でカラオケに行くことを提案した。
カラオケ…実は友達と２人で５時間歌うくらい好きなのだが、イギリスでとなると話が違う。
ロンドンのカラオケは２０年前の日本同様、パブのミラーボールの下、店内の一角に設置された専用ステージで歌わなければならない。そして当然、選べる曲は洋楽のみ。

とりあえず何曲かYouTubeからダウンロードしてみた。
"Bad romance(Lady Gaga)", "Breaking the habit(Linkin Park)", "Dance Dance(Fall out boy)"　等ゝ。好きな曲なら覚えやすいかと思ったが、どれもこれもそれなりに練習を要する上にカラオケで歌うには一般的ではない内容の曲だった。
仮にマスターしたとしても歌う前にウォッカの１杯くらいは必要だと思われる。

Last week, BBC news shown my teacher, Peter had been yelling at the England football team in the pub. But this morning, he sadly said not to talk anything about football before he starts class, because England lost to Germany the previous day.
Anyway, the topic of this time is KARAOKE.

Peter suggested challanging KARAOKE at somewhere with all of our classmates in this month, at the biggining of the class in this morning.

Humm... Actually, I love singing at the KARAOKE BOX as much as I could sing with one of my friends for five hours.
But I've known we have to do in the same way: We Japanese used to sing on the stage under a shining mirror ball or colourful lights in the pub twenty years ago. To scare of me, that's very common in London today.

There would be no problem if the song was japanese one, but I must sing in English.
Anyway, I chose some songs and downloaded them from YouTube.
"Bad romance(Lady Gaga)", "Breaking the habit(Linkin Park)", "Dance Dance(Fall out boy)", and so on.
I love not only the genre such as Jazz or classical music but also Rock, Death metal and Euro beat... so all songs I've chosen were popular but may be minorities among KARAOKE songs.

Somehow I always choose a tough way... I'll break my shyness with a glass of Vodka before I sing.