{"id":13767,"date":"2024-03-18T17:37:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/where-honour-and-ridiculousness-collide-in-praise-of-karaokes-inventor-on-his-death-at-100\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T17:37:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T16:37:22","slug":"where-honour-and-ridiculousness-collide-in-praise-of-karaokes-inventor-on-his-death-at-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/where-honour-and-ridiculousness-collide-in-praise-of-karaokes-inventor-on-his-death-at-100\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Where honour and ridiculousness collide\u2019: in praise of karaoke\u2019s inventor, on his death at 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shigeichi Negishi\u2019s invention invites us to cast off humility and take a shot at singing stardom. His legacy will be credited \u2013 and blamed \u2013 for us living out our popstar fantasies<\/p>\n<p>Received wisdom holds that haughty music critics, grinding our axes on fans\u2019 beloved pop stars, are nothing more than failed musicians. This has always struck me as slander \u2013 not of critics, who certainly can be bitter and mean, but of supposedly failed musicians. How, after all, does one fail at music? To suggest success rides on certain technicalities, like talent or a career, gravely underestimates music\u2019s draw, and nowhere is the lie more spectacularly exposed than in karaoke.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an arena of musical greatness in which incompetence is the house style. Delusions of grandeur, haywire pitch, weird stage presence? Join the party. On that valorising little stage, \u201cfailed musician\u201d becomes the most entertaining role in the business.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/commentisfree\/2024\/mar\/18\/karaoke-inventor-shigeichi-negishi-death-100-legacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/38a988c0fb17cbdfa10fe4b8ede0301a8f148fbd\/357_1079_4359_2614\/master\/4359.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0f2523ade8882c5c8b6e8fa0805019a2\" title=\"\u2018Where honour and ridiculousness collide\u2019: in praise of karaoke\u2019s inventor, on his death at 100\" \/>Shigeichi Negishi\u2019s invention invites us to cast off humility and take a shot at singing stardom. His legacy will be credited \u2013 and blamed \u2013 for us living out our popstar fantasies<br \/>\nReceived wisdom holds that haughty music critics, grinding our axes on fans\u2019 beloved pop stars, are nothing more than failed musicians. This has always struck me as slander \u2013 not of critics, who certainly can be bitter and mean, but of supposedly failed musicians. How, after all, does one fail at music? To suggest success rides on certain technicalities, like talent or a career, gravely underestimates music\u2019s draw, and nowhere is the lie more spectacularly exposed than in karaoke.<br \/>\nHere is an arena of musical greatness in which incompetence is the house style. Delusions of grandeur, haywire pitch, weird stage presence? Join the party. On that valorising little stage, \u201cfailed musician\u201d becomes the most entertaining role in the business. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shigeichi Negishi\u2019s invention invites us to cast off humility and take a shot at singing stardom. His legacy will be credited \u2013 and blamed \u2013 for us living out our popstar fantasies Received wisdom holds that haughty music critics, grinding our axes on fans\u2019 beloved pop stars, are nothing more than failed musicians. This has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/where-honour-and-ridiculousness-collide-in-praise-of-karaokes-inventor-on-his-death-at-100\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Where honour and ridiculousness collide\u2019: in praise of karaoke\u2019s inventor, on his death at 100<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}