Category Archives: kitsch

“Borat” (Sasha Baron Cohen) performing “In My Country There Is A Problem” at the Country West, Arizona, 200?

September 21, 2007 – 5:04 pm
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Bob Dylan performing “Love Sick” with “Soy Bomb” (Michael Portnoy) on the 1998 Grammy Awards Broadcast, February 25, 1998

September 18, 2007 – 12:05 pm
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Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performing “Rock Your Body” on the 2004 Superbowl Broadcast, February 1, 2004

September 18, 2007 – 12:00 pm
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Paul Potts performing “Nessun Dorma” on UK television show “Britain’s Got Talent,” 2007

September 15, 2007 – 3:30 pm
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My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden’s karaoke performance of “I Will Always Love You” with friends, Brazil (?), 2007

September 15, 2007 – 3:25 pm
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Extended karaoke ending sequence from Shrek Special Edition DVD, 2001

September 15, 2007 – 12:44 pm
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Elvis Presley performing “In The Ghetto,” Las Vegas, NV, February 1970 (?)

September 15, 2007 – 11:58 am
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Wing performing “In The Ghetto,” Wellington, NZ, March, 2007

September 15, 2007 – 11:30 am
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A karaoke performance of “Emotion” by Yu/Yoo Chae Young (?) on a Korean television show, 200?

September 14, 2007 – 11:07 pm
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