Karaoke meets spelling bee
- Television, Entertainment (general), The Singing Bee -
By Candice Montenegro, Contributor
INQUIRER.net
WHO could forget the infamous Alyssa Alano rendition of “Kiss Me?” (Or should I say, “Keys Me”) The lines “strike up the band and make the fireflies dance / silver moon’s sparkling” became something like “strike entebend end make d parflays dance / sleeve and mouse is barkley.” You’ll think, where the heck did those words come from, and you realize that she murmured something that sounded like the original lyrics.
And we all laugh until our stomachs hurt, but truth is, we’re all guilty of doing that at least once. How many times have you made up song lyrics when you didn’t know the actual ones?
Now there’s a new game show that tests how well you know the words of a song. “The Singing Bee,” originally an NBC game show, is now in the Philippines and is aired on ABS-CBN.
