Karaoke Videos

6/9/202635 min

Behind every cheesy karaoke track was a surprisingly ambitious filmmaking experiment.

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First 90 seconds

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Vivian Le· Host0:57
This is 99% Invisible. I'm Vivian Le, in this week for Roman Mars. [gentle music] I was raised in a Vietnamese household, which means I was practically born with a karaoke mic in my hand. Birthdays, family reunions, funerals, Sunday mornings after the Raiders lost, all good reasons to whip out the karaoke machine. And one of the things that I remember most vividly during these formative mid-'90s moments was watching the videos that played during the karaoke tracks my parents were singing along to. They