Sweating Up SingStar

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So the other day my brother brought the game SingStar home. While making a sandwhich that evening I heard him and his friend downstairs in the basement singing in dual monotone, so I threw open the door and yelled down "YOU SUCK!" to which my brother yelled back "LET’S SEE YOU DO BETTER, BITCH!". And today he challenged me to just that… we ended up down in the basement singing for 2 hours.

The game is pretty amazing, on the screen it displays the pitch you’re expected to hit, and shows where your voice is as you sing (it also shows the lyrics and highlights them when you’re supposed to sing, just like karaoke.) Even then it’s kind of hard to correct (at least on the normal or hard setting), especially while we were singing "Paint it Black" by the Rolling Stones (he got the rock version, obviously), I kept having to drop my voice to deeper and deeper octaves just to satisfy the damn thing. It also didn’t help that, seeing as I was trained in chorus singing during my youth, my brother bumbling the lyrics of songs here and there was screwing me up too. But that wasn’t even the highlight of his, or my, antics.

Mama always told me singing was a workout, but I didn’t expect to work up such a sweat playing this game. My best song was undoubtedly "Self Esteeme" by the Offspring (incidently the one I was most familiar with) but didn’t do so bad with "Somebody Told Me" by The Killers either. My brother and I liked doing the song "Love Shack" by the B 52’s (a song we’ve worringly known the lyrics to since we were little kids) just a little too much, which requires one player to do the male singer’s part and one to do the female singer’s (even in battle/verses mode), and at one point during our numerous performances he kept screwing up the lyrics, "I got in my car it seats as a whale!" It didn’t help to stave off laughter that he was literally imitating Fred Schneider.

Toward the end of our run we both had soar throats and were a bit out of breath, and the laughter continued when my brother decided to sing "I Will Survive" in a heavy metal voice and roll around the floor, and when both of us somehow managed to get "okay"s when hopelessly rambling on "blee blah boo bloo bloo" during "I Heard it From the Grapevine". I was a little miffed that he kept getting good scores for shrieking like a banshee into the mike, and the game was punishing me for the natural trained trill in my voice. I was delighted to see, however, that the game punishes you for breathing at the wrong time, ah reminds me of my old chorus days. We did "Love Shack" and "Somebody Told Me" each one more time before calling it quits for the day. We got "Amatuer" scores on the normal setting on every song, except on "Paint it Black", my brother got a "Wannabe" score which was represented by a rubber duck. We cheered for the duckie.

I wish I had some photos of us singing to show, but my mom was too lazy to take photos, also I have nothing else to write about today, so this is whatchoo git!