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Kurt’s Blog: Gimme the Mic…and Let Me Lip Sync This

Wednesday night…Prairie Meadows…Lip Sync Battle…you win $2000.

Absolutely!

Are you kidding me? I could win $2000 for what I used (okay, not used…still do) to do in my mirror for free? I was everyone….Eddie Vedder…LL Cool J…NWA…Coldplay…my mom bought me a bass when I was in high school because I wanted to “start a band”…never started a band, but did have a cool bass guitar to lip sync with. There’s a video of me lip syncing to Rancid’s “Roots Radical”…but it has not seen the light of day…and nor should it.

I digress….yes, you could win $2000 for lip syncing. You could lip sync a Britney Spears song, and that would be totally surreal. My wife will yell at me for that joke…so let’s go with “You could lip sync a Milli Vanilli song, and world’s would collide.”

I could never win a karaoke contest…I have the showmanship…but not the voice. Take away the whole singing part, and ta-dah…winner winner chicken dinner.

What? Star 102.5 is partnering up with Prairie Meadows on this? I’m ineligible to win? Colleen and I are hosting this each Wednesday night? Okay…that’ll do 🙂

Come one out Wednesday night…this Wednesday is the first round. Bring your costume….your props..whatever you need.

If I were to perform…and there’s still a good chance I’ll break it out on Wednesday night…these would be my choices….

Oh, before I do that…here are my tips…

  1. Pick a song people know
  2. Pick a song that’s fun for you to do
  3. Pick a song that has a silly/nostalgic factor
  4. Don’t pick Adele’s Hello….unless you have a crazy dance to accompany this.
  5. Your goal is to entertain…entertain.
  6. Don’t do a rap song that’s too fast, you’ll stumble.
  7. Stretch before you do any dance moves.

Here are my songs that I would pick..

Mama Said Knock You Out – LL Cool J

Steel Bars – Michael Bolton (Note: I’m not embarrassed at all that I know all the words to this song

Pour Some Sugar on Me – Def Leppard

If I were in a group lip-sync, no better song than…

Beastie Boys – Fight For Your RIght

 

And what song will I do tomorrow night…

Yep…I’m breaking out the Poison for sure. I’ve got the wig…the glasses…let’s do this

See ya tomorrow night at the Meadows!

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