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Drake Sings Karaoke With A Lucky Fan to ‘What’s My Name?’

andPOP Staff — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:50:23 +0000

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Drake made a fan’s lucky day when he joined her on stage to sing karaoke to one of his songs. The fan uploaded the video to YouTube of her singing “What’s My Name?” with Drake. It all went down at the Saddle Ranch.

“Excuse my voice but I was kinda nervous. Lol,” YouTube user Dee wrote below the video.

How do you think she did? And whose that assh*le yelling in the background?

Michael Jackson Video Game Coming

Sara Harowitz — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:06:47 +0000

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It seems that the Moon Walk is the new black as more and more Michael Jackson merchandise is in the works.

According to TMZ, the King of Pop is set to star in a new video game that will essentially be a “dance karaoke.” Unlike many other ventures surrounding the deceased Jackson, apparently the pop singer’s estate is totally on board for this plan. Basically, gamers will see Jackson dancing on screen and then will be challenged to imitate his movements.

The game, currently untitled, will be available on multiple gaming platforms including Wii and Xbox 360. The Xbox version will include Microsoft’s new Kinect motion capture technology which will allow players to participate in the game without holding a controller.

Also in the Xbox version, the player will be judged based on full body moves; the game will process the player’s movements and display them on screen, dancing alongside Jackson.

If that wasn’t spectacular enough for aspiring Princes of Pop everywhere, the game also includes a karaoke feature which will allow players to sing along to Jackson songs and even funk up their voices with an autotune feature.

The game is being developed by Ubisoft (the same company behind Assassin’s Creed and Ghost Recon) and they have apparently secured permission from Jackson’s estate, so this is sure to go ahead. The game is scheduled to be released sometime before Christmas.

Steven Tyler Does Odd Home Depot Performance

Angelina Irinici — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:35:31 +0000

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Was Aerosmith’s front man Steven Tyler lost during his last performance? Most celebrities do not do performances at the local Home Depot, but Steven Tyler is apparently not like most celebrities. According to People magazine, Tyler visited a Home Depot in Rancho Mirage, Calif., last Saturday, where he jumped on the p.a. system and sang hits like “Dude Looks like a lady” and “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.”

The sixty-one-year-old announced in December that he had entered rehab for an addiction to prescription painkillers and pain management.

Home Depot shoppers weren’t the only lucky customers to get a free concert from the infamous singer; he also joined in on some karaoke at the Tiltet Kilt, a Palm Desert pub. Two singers were booed during their rendition of Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing,” so Tyler grabbed the mic and gave the song a better, more professional ending.

The odd performances have led people to believe the star has completed his treatment, but Tyler is still in rehab.

“Steven Tyler has completed the first 30 days of intensive sobriety treatment and is now in a 90-day residential day treatment program,” Eric Sherman, the president of Tenth Street Entertainment, Tyler’s management company, tells People.

A source says Tyler “has privileges to leave the grounds” and the reason for his Home Depot trip was simple: “he was shopping.”

People magazine wrote:

Sherman says the singer is “a performer 24/7 – whether he’s on stage, at the Home Depot or singing karaoke,” and adds, “We are all really proud of Steven’s continuing successful therapy and look forward to the day he returns to the stage and recording studio with Aerosmith to make new music for the fans.”

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has hopes to rejoin with Tyler in the future, “I’m ready to write with him, to play on stage with him anytime he’s physically ready and wants to do it.”

Disney Sing It: Pop Hits coming soon

April Apoong — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:44:38 +0000

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Disney Interactive Studios has announced recently that there will be a Disney Sing It: Pop Hits, available to the masses. With the game being a multi-platform karaoke style title letting everyone the chance to give it a try. There will be a lot of familiar songs and expect singing tips along side vocal lessons from Tiffany Thornton herself.

On the Wii, Playstation 3 and Playstation 2 consoles, players will have the opportunity to match their talents with the performers which includes master recordings and popular music videos from global fan favorites.

With a bevy of modes that range from duets to competitive singing ensures enjoyment for one person or a group of your friends. New features include “Sing It Encore,” and “Run the Risk,” which allows players to play back performances and contestants try to correctly predict scores against their opponents.
The song list includes:

Miley Cyrus
“7 Things”
“Fly on the Wall”
“The Climb”
“Hoedown Throwdown”

Demi Lovato
“Get Back”
“La La Land”

Jonas Brothers
“Don’t Forget”
“Hold On”
“SOS”
“When You Look Me In The Eyes”
“Love Bug”
“Burnin’ Up”

Colbie Caillat
“Realize”
“Bubbly”

Vanessa Hudgens
“Sneakernight”

Jesse McCartney
“It’s Over”
“How Do You Sleep?”

Taylor Swift
“I’m Only Me When I’m With You”
“Change”

One Republic
“Apologize”

Duffy
“Warwick Avenue”
“Mercy”

Coldplay
“Violet Hill”

Steve Rushton
“Emergency”

Love & Theft
“Don’t Wake Me”

Mitchel Musso and Tiffany Thornton / “Hatching Pete” (Disney Channel Original Movie)
“Let It Go”

Mitchel Musso
“The In Crowd”

Hannah Montana
“Let’s Get Crazy”
“Let’s Do This”

Jem
“It’s Amazing”

When the time comes to pick this up on the Wii or PS3 you will have the choice of buying the game in a bundle which includes a Logitech mic or just the game itself.
For PS2 owners the game is only available as a standalone.

I’m starting to have the urge to raise my voice and give this a try when it comes out. I’m sensing a karaoke party in the near future.

SingStar: Queen May or May Not Rock You

Brett Caron — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:02:23 +0000

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I can’t sing. Not well, anyway. But I feel that puts me in the norm rather than outside of it. With that in mind, I sat down last week with a couple of friends who can sing, to enjoy a little SingStar: Queen.

As a huge Queen fan, I felt I had the advantage going in to this impromptu karaoke competition, at least when it came to knowing the lyrics and general dynamic of the songs. What I didn’t count on (and should have) is that my two fellow competitors were karaoke superstars. For convenience’s sake, let’s call them Brodie and his girlfriend, Chris.

Now, we set out to get a taste of everything this game had to offer. Having already sung a song on my own before they arrived, I had an idea of the format of the game. The lyrics appear onscreen along with a display that shows the notes you have to hit, and how long to hold them. If you hit the note and hold it for the duration, the bar representing that note fills green. If you don’t hit it, or only hit part of it, the bar doesn’t fill and an area outside of the bar fills red (above the bar for a sharp note, below for a flat note), indicating that you suck. Let’s just say that I was mostly seeing red that night.

After going through a few solo songs, passing the mic between Brodie, Chris and myself; we decided to do a few duets. Those went pretty well, and I found that the display for the duets was just as intuitive as the solo version. After a few battles between two of us at a time (wherein both players sing the song simultaneously, higher score wins) we decided to take on the Pass the Mic feature, which divides players into teams and puts them through various types of challenges. From Solos, to Battles, to Medleys (arguably the hardest kind of challenge, since you have to pick up the song for a couple of bars and then switch it up) we were laughing our way through the night with this game, from song to song.

To get the high score, you need to grow a Mercu-stache.

But in every case, we ran into the same problem. We encountered huge delay on the mic track. We checked out the options screen, under mic settings, to no avail. We played through the pain, and later I found out that the calibration settings for making sure your mic track, the display and the Queen track are all in sync were under the Display settings. Not misleading at all.

That is the major problem with Singstar: Queen, and now that it’s out of the way, let’s look at some of the more positive aspects of this game that is, at the end of the day, pretty enjoyable. The songs are definitely more difficult than previous incarnations of the SingStar brand, due in no small part to Freddie Mercury’s unstoppable vocals, along with the rest of the band frequently providing backup in chorus. But the fun and flavour of Queen is all over this game. As you sing, the background video is overlaid with Queen music videos and concert footage, which really adds to the energy of the game – but if you are confident not only in your singing but also your stage presence, as it were, you can opt to record yourself on video through PlayStation Eye to get your own personal MTV style.

I suppose the fun is what matters most, but what put a downer on the evening was the awkwardness of getting the

Hot girls not included with game. They don't even show up later. I waited.

sound profile for the game to jive correctly. The playbacks were horrible, but laughably so – which means it was still fun. All in all, I feel that this game is for karaoke addicts only, and even then it’s definitely on a party-game basis.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, I got my ass handed to me by my fellow gamers… BRODIE!!

Graphics – 5 / 5 (For the Queen video playing while you sing)

Audio – 4 / 5 (Awesome song selection, but it’s definitely hard to sing over Mercury)

Controls – 2 / 5 (Controlling menus with the mic is easy, but the menus don’t lend themselves well to calibrating the mic)

Gameplay – 3 /5 (Party games, replay value is weak at best)

Cheers!