Post #491434 by woofmutt on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 9:03 AM

The performance of Family Affair is exactly what I always imagined karaoke would be like: "Ha-ha! Look I can't sing and here I am singing! On a stage! In front of people! And I'm a white guy singing a famous soul song! And I'm drunk!"

But I like the performance of Word Up better than the original. (I have to admit I have never heard the original all the way through, just snippets of it here and there.)

However, in order to own a song you need to know the song and Mr. Liloti's constant squinting at the teleprompter demonstrates that he is either only passingly familiar with the lyrics or is too drunk to correctly recall them.

As a result his performance has a stiffness to it which one would expect from almost anyone else other than Mr. Liloti, a man who has clearly attempted to make his actual life as cartoon-like as possible.

If Mr. Liloti were to take the time to fully know the material he chooses to perform and were to incorporate more of his natural physical fluidity into his stage presence he would no doubt give performances that people would talk about for years and which would see the stages he graces covered in panties.