Tag: SINGING

Much like 'American Idol' in the U.S., Britain's 'The X Factor' is a phenomenon. While the winners might not endure (at least, we hope not), they're certainly selling plenty of records in the present. So what's the secret to stopping this vocal juggernaut and to bringing some credibility back to the charts? A guerrilla social networking campaign, of course. According to BBC News, Joe Morter, a ...

Grab a pair of earplugs, folks. In what's sure to be a painful and embarrassing marketing ploy, Yahoo! is asking people to record and submit their version of the site's famous yodel as part of a worldwide contest. If your yodel is viewed 1,000 times, it even goes "gold." In Times Square, celebrity yodelers Jewel and LeAnn Rimes, along with other inexplicable celebs like Randy Jackson, Pete Wentz, ...

In a mix that goes together like sushi and sake, social networking giant MySpace is finally bringing its interactive karaoke feature to Japan. Way back in the halcyon days of April 2008, MySpace rolled out MySpace Karaoke, which let users upload audio (and later, in October, video) of themselves singing to a large catalog of tunes. We hailed it as a new dawn for self-obsessed lunatics, now ...