Duet Failed!

This is what I was up to tonight instead of studying for the GRE. My prep book said not to study the night before, so I didn't. I went to a party. This was a teacher party, and the music teacher was there, and he brought along a karaoke set-up. We spent much of the night making fools of ourselves. After you choose a song and sing it, you get a score, apparently based on how well you sang the notes on pitch at the right time. When you sing a duet, you each get a score.

It was a lot harder than I thought it would be! You have to really pay attention to the words running across the screen, coming in at the right time, and a little arrow tells you whether you are sharp or flat.

We were rolling on the floor after a particularly difficult performance of "Respect" by Aretha Franklin. There were two vocal lines, one the melody (Aretha) and the other, the back-up vocals (sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me). The screen kept telling us we were not doing well. Suddenly the whole thing stopped and the screen flashed "Duet Failed," which sent everyone into howls of laughter.

Later in the evening I tried "Respect" one more time, and the system did not crash, so I guess I redeemed myself. It was all a great distraction from thinking about the GRE, which is, by the way, tomorrow.

Wish me luck. I will be glad to have it over with. If I don't do well, I guess I can start going to karaoke bars instead of graduate school.