{"id":2351,"date":"2004-03-24T15:40:35","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T07:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/24\/its-like-karaoke-gone-all-wrong\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T15:46:26","slug":"its-like-karaoke-gone-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/24\/its-like-karaoke-gone-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s like Karaoke gone all wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago while on my lunch break, I read a story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamhung.net\/\" title=\"William Hung\">William Hung<\/a>, the kid who has gained fame and notoriety for his (ahem) inimitable rendition of <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewArtist?artistId=217142\" title=\"Ricky Martin\">Ricky Martin<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=879581&amp;selectedItemId=879573\" title=\"She Bangs\">She Bangs<\/a>&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/idolonfox.com\/\" title=\"American Idol\">American Idol<\/a>. Since I don&#8217;t bother with television, that was the first I&#8217;d heard about this little mini-phenomenon, but I thought it was a cute little story.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my surprise tonight when I discovered that the iTunes Music Store now has <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=5892661&amp;selectedItemId=5892650\" title=\"She Bangs\">William&#8217;s rendition of &#8220;She Bangs&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; along with three other <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=5892661\" title=\"Sneak-Peak Pre-Release Tracks!\">gleefully cringe-inducing songs<\/a>! I&#8217;m not bothering to download any of them &#8212; the thirty-second previews were <em>more<\/em> than enough for me &#8212; but it was more than enough to give me a good laugh.<\/p>\n<p>And really&#8230;suddenly my <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/15minutes\/index.html\" title=\"15Minutes archives\">fifteen minutes of fame<\/a> doesn&#8217;t seem <em>that<\/em> bizarre in comparison.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Understood (Hot Tracks)&#8221; by Must from the album <em>Roadkill! 2.15<\/em> (1995, 6:07).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine my surprise tonight when I discovered that the iTunes Music Store now has William Hung&#8217;s rendition of &#8216;She Bangs&#8217;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2035],"tags":[6,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}