I've had all kinds of serious blog posts on my mind lately. Turning 40, the next great depression, job layoffs, the fact that Greg doesnt even read my blog.... but the heck with that. I want to talk about Singstar.
I played music instruments for years. Piano, french horn, 3 kinds of guitar. But I did not enjoy any of it as much as I enjoyed singing. Granted Im a fair to miserable singer but instruments always felt like work and singing just felt like fun.
I tried my hand at Rockband last year and decided against it. Simon with music just was not playing music. It irritated me. I started to feel like I was in a scene of Idiocracy.
So I started to think about karaoke games. At least the vocals in a video game are actual vocals so I started looking for singing games on the PS3.
Singstar. I hear it is the best karaoke game for folks that want to, you know, sing.
So I start doing my research on what will work on the PS3 and what wont. Most important I start looking at the songs.
Christ, what kind of crap songs do people like to sing? Are these the songs people want or the only songs that can be licensed for a tiny game MTV doesnt own?
The discs were a huge disappointment but I held out hope. Maybe the new online SingStore would be better!? Gah!!! What are all these crappy songs?
I am probably going to buy it just to try it but it depresses me a bit that I have so many CD's from the past 30 years and so few of those songs are available in these games. This idea seems impossible to screw up but Im sure music industry lawyers are doing their best.
