The reason why I needed a bag of sleep despite it being the Record Day, was because it was Friday. Thus, I had some fun with my 4 friends Lohn Jennon, Caul McPartney, Heorge Garrison and Stingo Rarr (again, the names are made unrecognizable due to privacy issues) again. This time around, we decided to have a SingStarĀ®-Match against our archenemies, because there was a score to be settled. The rivals in question were Robin, Barry and Maurice (from the Gibb-Family, you've probably heard of them; names not made unrecognizable because they deserve it!). Admittedly, we were feeling a bit uneasy because the 3 brothers were known throughout the neighbourhood for their musical talent. But then again, we had some pretty decent skills ourselves, so we were sure that we could win.
To add to the challenge, we decided to mix things up by letting the game choose a song randomly. John... Lohn, Lohn I mean, was going first. As luck would have it, he got a song by Justin Bieber. Obviously, the song sucked, but since just about everyone has more singing talent than him, Jo... Lohn, god damn it, was easily able to Score over 9000 %. This was a great relief for the following reason: Obviously, it was a 5 vs. 3 Deathmatch. We figured that the fairest way to settle things was to calculate the average of each group's Scores. If us others were to fail, Lohn would be able to carry us.
Robin was coming up next. After what seemed like hours of waiting anxiously for the game to pick a song, a title popped up on the Screen: "The Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive." Even as his archenemy, I couldn't help but feel sorry for Robin, seeing how he didn't know the lyrics at all. To top it off, it's a rather fast-paced song too, so he had troubles keeping up with the Lyrics on the Screen. The result was desasterous: He only scored 17%. We were very comfortable at this point, because we had a big lead over the Gibbs brothers.
What followed then was the worst luck in history though; Once it was Heorge's turn, the game decided to go with the song "We are the Champions" by Queen. As everyone knows, Freddy Mercury is the one person that noone can ever come close to when it comes to singing. I can't even talk about the Score Heorge got because I would be too ashamed by my friend's "achievement". Let me just say this much: Up to yesterday, I didn't know that a Score below Zero is actually possible in this game.
Barry went next. This was rather uneventful, but, strangely enough, the game picked a song for him that neither me nor my 4 friends knew. If my memory serves me right, it had something to do with submarines. Submarines, submarines... blue? Red? Ah, yellow! Yellow submarines it was! Weird song. Quite catchy though. Either way, Barry seemed to know the song perfectly well, and scored a 100%. The one problem with this was that the brothers were now dangerously close to us in terms of average Scores (which should give you a good idea on how bad Heorge actually performed).
However, the turning point was coming up, and Paul... Caul - whatever, I don't care anymore - was about to be the man!
Once again, all 8 of us were anxiously awaiting SingStarĀ®'s choice. When the name of the song popped up on the Screen, we couldn't help but cheer loudly, while our enemies were groaning in despair; "Let it be". A song he himself got succesful with.
Needless to say, he scored a 1337, which was an instant win. And that's the story of how we beat our archenemies!
Sadly, my 4 friends got so wasted afterwards that I could get neither of the to participate in the Record Day.
