Something weird to share with you:

I was reading one of our national daily's on-line newspaper. I stumbled along this weird, funny news item. This is the actual item that I copy/pasted.

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'My Way' sparks rumble in town's bar; 1 hurt


"My Way" - the song that had queerly incited violence and killings every time it is sang in videoke bars-sparked a ramble in a bar at barangay Sulok, Dalaguete town Wednesday night where a man who tried to sing the song was stabbed and wounded.

Twenty-three-year-old Sherwin Gatutua, a resident of barangay Tapol of the town, just came from a visit to the cemetery when he had a few drinks with some friends at a videoke bar in barangay Sulok.

When it was Gatutua's turn to sing, he chose to render Frank Sinatra's "My Way" but this infuriated 32-year-old Bara Quilaton, who was drinking alone at another table.

Before Gatutua could start singing, Quilaton stood up, grabbed the microphone from the former and causing a heated altercation between the two.

This prompted Gatutua's companion to confront Quilaton who in turn went to the bar's kitchen, and returned with a pointed iron bar, which he used in stabbing Gatutua's right body and shoulder.

Quilaton quickly fled while the victim was brought to the Don Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City.

The song "My Way" had already claimed notoriety of instigating violence and killings whenever sung in karaoke bars.

Three weeks ago, violence rocked a bar in Malabon City when two men went berserk because the bar attendant refused to play the song. They threw bottles of beers and dared to a fight the other customers, who in turn got angry and beat the two up to dreamland.

Last May, a man was stabbed dead inside a KTV bar in Quezon City, again because of singing "My Way."

"My Way" is a ditty, which the late singer Frank Sinatra had popularized as one of the most famous hits worldwide. Its original title was "Comme d'habitude", a song written in 1968 by Claude Francois, a French-Egyptian club performer, about his break-up with his wife France Gall.

Francois collaborated with Jacques Revaux and Gilles Thibault in composing the song, which they later teamed up with composer and singer Paul Anka for the English version.

While the song expressed the pain of a Francois' break-up with his wife, it also raised his sagging popularity in the entertainment circuit.

But the song's history had no hint whatsoever to explain why it seemed to carry a seeming curse of violence among those who dare sing it now. Sinatra might be wondering also.

Angela

Yeah, he might well be wondering if he wasn't dead...

Shaun

Maybe it's not the song...
I regularly want to hit people at Karaoke bars :-) :-) :-)

It might be the excessive amount of alcohol (and maybe other substances) in the blood stream that triggers this response to dreadful singing........ :-) :-)

Grumpy's reply is the answer to the mystery, no doubt.

Perhaps there are subliminal messages that Frankie put in there. After all, I'm curiously want to bet whenever I hear him and Deano sing "Here comes Nathan Detroit".... Sadly, most people probably don't know what I'm talking about! Oh well, all of my family and friends say I'm a 70 year old trapped in a 17 year old body.... Thanks for your time, and interesting item.

Guys and Dolls...... LOL :-)

Maybe the answer is to ban 'My Way' - I'd be happy if I never heard it again!, but then I don't reckon Sinatra as a singer either.

Hi...
just a thought...
maybe the punters sounded like Sid Vicious when they attempted to sing it.

There are quite a few songs that drive me mad even if they are by the original artists.

The Tweety Song and Middle of the Road drive me nuts.

Ah well...
Cheers
Peter

Hmm...I'm not sure if it's the beer or alcohol that makes these people fight when they hear "My Way."

Another incident last night....a brawl started near our market. The cause of the brawl? Someone sang "My Way" and the singer got pummelled to the ground.

And to think that the singer and the punchers were not drunk!

Angela

Hi Angela!

Maybe it's the "Mars Attacks" effect! The Martians have seen the movie and are using the same technique to eliminate human population! Help they are coming!
Well... err... I must confess I did the explanation a little bit "My Way"! :-)

Jean-Luc

Perhaps they should change their tune....

"Strangers in the Night", brings on much nicer thoughts than "My Way!!".....
Or perhaps after the violence, a rousing chorus of "That's Life" inviting the assailants to join in, would bring about a new outlook on life, then onto "New York-New York" and forming a chorus line, with hi-kicks swaying back and forth....... in tune to the music......arms locked like the Radio City Rockettes ..... :-)

When I was 32
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for an emergency trip to the ER
Someone stabbed me with a pointy iron bar
In a karaoke bar
When I was 32…

Shaun
/with apologies to Frank
//Love Guys and Dolls
///I've got a horse right here

Somehow, I think I am lucky to have no knowledge of
"The Tweety Song" and "Middle of the Road"... Unless that is Dead skunk in the middle of the road...... :-)

:-) @ keenan