Marcel Winatschek

The SingStar Testimony

There are few better ways to spend a Saturday night than getting absolutely loose with friends around a pink PlayStation and a pair of microphones. I was running on multivitamin juice—full sobriety, full commitment—and it didn’t matter, because somewhere between Umbrella and Juli’s Wir beide (my all-time SingStar pick, untouchable) the inhibition evaporated anyway. Full Pop Idol mode: Disney classics, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, the kind of singing that is illegal in multiple jurisdictions. The only thing that might have been better would have been the actress Nora Tschirner. But SingStar had her beat that night, which is saying something.