Reply To: JCCC4: Post Mortem (Feedback Thread)
Thoughts on what I am going to dub the “karaoke problem:”
1. Watching David Rees/Paul F. Tompkins host a “curated” karaoke night is pretty dang cool. Plus, hearing Randy sing R&B or Ned scream Taylor Swift is a shared part of Sea Monkey Culture.
2. The problem with 1. comes with the idea that there are dozens of other extremely awesome karaoke singers who could be part of the show, except we don’t know them yet because they haven’t gotten a chance to sing.
3. And then there is the distinction between “singing karaoke for fun” and “curating karaoke as an event,” which are two different experiences which, honestly, I both like — even though one of them seems a bit more exclusive than the other.
4. That’s also why I was adamant about not doing a Hello, The Future! shadow cruise show this year — it felt to me like it was someone else’s turn. What I am dubbing the “karaoke problem” is really a larger-scale “cruise resource distribution problem,” even though it is most obviously apparent during the Studio B karaoke events.
5. I do not know how to solve the problem. I do know that there are a lot of people who are much better at resource distribution games than I am. 🙂