WINNIPEG – Eyewitnesses are reporting that 32 year old customer service representative Evan Legault is having difficulty keeping it together after taking the stage at a local karaoke bar to sing a song for which he clearly does not know any verses or the bridge.
“What if I just do what the backup singers are doing for this next part?” suggested a clearly nervous Legault into the microphone in front of an unimpressed crowd. The song in question is David Bowie’s Young Americans, which is indeed significantly easier to nail when only singing the title of the song and the words “aaaaaaaaaaaallll night”.
Like any karaoke bar, Winnipeg’s Music Factory displays all the lyrics of every song on screens that are simple to read, which, sources say, may have provided Legault with a false sense of confidence in his ability to stumble through the parts of the song he couldn’t recall as he was leafing through the songbook.
“Oh, the President Nixon bit!” Legault exclaimed instead of actually singing what is in fact one of the easier parts of the song.
“Does he know this song goes on for five minutes?” asked Anna Morton, one of Legault’s uncomfortable co-workers, who admitted that she only went out tonight because she thought Legault was “kinda cute,” though she hastily added, “well, I mean I used to think that.”
By the fourth verse, Legault had resorted to miming playing a saxophone while still holding the microphone up to his mouth in order to try and make the sound of the saxophone already playing in the backing track. He was not successful at either task.
