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It was a karaoke bar in Syracuse, New York. Only karaoke, not private room, so the full,

everyone there sees what everybody's singing. This is Music Critic Mora Johnston.

It's set up like a rock club. You walk in and there's the long bar on one side,

and then you go into the anti-room and there's a stage with two karaoke DJs. And you know,

some songs did better than others. There were lots of new metal songs that night. People did corn

and seven dust. It was a very wide-ranging night. Yeah.

But when Lucky came on, that was the song that just broke the room down.

That song. Yeah. That song.

It was just a young woman who was really excited and very impassioned about what she was singing.

When this young woman is singing the song, how does she start and at what moment does she realize

that she's won the room? I mean, at the opening line.

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