Karaoke- Assignment 2

Today, I watched people karaoke-ing for about an hour. I didn't consciously choose this as a response to our assignment, but after standing on the grass watching a guy with a faux-hawk singing Barenaked Ladies, I knew that I should observe this more closely. You know that saying "you can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to"? Well, you can find out a lot more by paying attention to what they choose to sing in front of a small group of people. It seems like there are always the same people in any social situation. There are the small groups of friends, 3 girls or 3 guys, never mixed, who choose pop songs from the '90s like any Backstreet Boys hit or TLC's "No Scrub." Or there are the two goofy guys, both wearing brown shirts and one with a faux-hawk, who sing Johnny Cash's "Desperado" or "One Week". There are the black girls who confidently jam to Jenifer Lopez's "Waiting for Tonight" with accompanying choreography. But with any social activity, there are always those who don't participate. The first group of people who don't participate are those who are too shy, and the second group are the people who are "too cool," or at least they think they are. Either way, the shy girl in khaki shorts and the athletic "dude" in a black muscle-tee stand in close proximity as other people choose boy band love songs. The shy girl watches as a feeling of insecurity sinks into her stomach, and the "dude" watches as false sense of superiority rises to his ego. Any social occasion you observe, there will always be the people who moderate, the people who participate, the people who don't care about what others think, the people who stand at the side out of self-consciousness, and the people who think they're too cool for it.