Get To Know a Judge: Kristina Halvorson
March 02, 2010
Perhaps you know Kristina from her amazing book, Content Strategy for the Web. Perhaps you know her from her amazing web content agency, Brain Traffic. Or, perhaps you’ve had the pleasure of hanging out with her in Norway at what they call an amazing “vodka tasting.” Skål!
If you haven’t had any of those amazing experiences, you’ll get the chance to hang with Kristina when she serves the karaoke community by judging who can truly be the one true Cog’aoke champion. Her commentary is guaranteed to be highly usable and in the perfect emotional tone for the audience, which is to say her insights will rock your socks off.
Here’s just a taste:
1. What rocks Kristina Halvorson? Or, can you cite a recent example of Kristina Halvorson being rocked?
Just last week, I had the compulsory opportunity to attend my 5-year-old’s elementary school talent show. In between the violin solos, the awkward dance routines, and me wanting to stab myself in the face, this kid came onstage to tap dance. His mother played the piano and sort of did this weird tuneless singing in the background, and you felt sorry for the kid almost instantly, because whose mother DOES that!? Plus with the tap shoes… Anyhow, little dude WENT FOR IT. Elbows up, knees bent, arms flailing, big grin, the works. He also slipped and fell like five times, but check it out: he kept. On. Going.
My little tap-dancing pal, he rocked me. No self-consciousness whatsoever. Just a total lack of rhythm and enough enthusiasm to power a mid-sized generator. This kid loved to tap dance, and baby, it showed.
2. Is talent measured qualitatively or quantitatively? Elaborate.
Quantitatively, with the primary metric being how much bourbon I’ve had to drink.
3. Describe the worst mistake a karaoke singer can make.
Chaps.
4. Is there a “Karaoke 2.0,“ or is it just a meaningless buzzword made by the karaoke media?
Meaningless. In fact, not only meaningless, but insulting and somewhat ridiculous. Karaoke cannot evolve. It has already attained the highest, purest state of being there is. You know. Like Oral Roberts.
5. Finish this sentence: karaoke will change the world when…
...Keyboard Man is appointed to the Supreme Court.
