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MySpace Updates Karaoke Channel With Your Embarrassing Video

by Lee Bains on October 15, 2008 at 05:46 PM



Instead of wading out into dingy bars for a shot at temporary stardom, karaoke enthusiasts can now just log onto their MySpace accounts from the comfort of their own homes, AFP reports. Although it has been available for six months already, MySpace's karaoke application now offers better recording quality and user friendliness, according to the social networking site's executives.

The application's page is, indeed, easily navigable and its videos run without a hitch, for the most part. From the looks of it, MySpace Karaoke's enjoying significant, and far-reaching, popularity, with devotees having posted renditions of everything from Cab Calloway's 'Minnie the Moocher' (complete with trombone) to Britney Spears' 'Oops I Did it Again' (complete with heavy eye make-up).

If you have a microphone, Web-ready video camera, MySpace account and a relative lack of inhibitions, you're ready to participate in karaoke competitions like the two endorsed by Seal and Jesse McCartney. Those two musicians themselves will judge the videos of entrants performing their songs, and select the winners.

If only we could name more than a couple of three songs by Seal or Jesse McCartney; we're banking on a rather high 'Kiss from a Rose' contingent. [From: AFP/Yahoo!]

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