Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Daily Random Flickr Blogging, #7446
Few people realize that karaoke originated during the Cultural Revolution as a way to add zazz to otherwise routine denunciations of the bourgeoisie. "Yan the grocer reads counter-revolutionary novels/Chen the baker says that Chairman Mao's steel quotas are unrealistic/Hu the restauranteur expresses a fondness for decadent Western music/A few years in an engine factory should re-educate them good/Mmmm mmmmm/Oh yeah baby baby"
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