{"id":537,"date":"2006-02-06T00:10:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:06","slug":"singstar_rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/02\/06\/singstar_rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Singstar Rocks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=62742\">http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/&#8230;rticle_id=62742<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Warning: This post contains gratuitous Australian cultural references.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The next version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singstargame.com\/\">Singstar<\/a> will be &#8220;Singstar Rocks!&#8221;. Judging from the partial song list, it looks like it will contain fairly recent alt-pop-rock rather than 70-80&#8217;s glam or 80-90&#8217;s rock-and-roll.<\/p>\n<p>Previous versions of Singstar have been localised for different regions. Here, the Australian version of Singstar Pop! includes songs from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shannonnoll.com.au\/\">Shazza<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missyhiggins.com\/\">Missy<\/a>. I wonder if the local version of Singstar Rocks! will have a bit of Aussie Rock crammed in.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it&#8217;s probably unlikely to contain old-school <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmybarnes.com\/\">Barnsey<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnfarnham.com.au\/\">Farnsey<\/a>. So you may be dissapointed if you&#8217;re looking for a working class man. Likewise, you might not want to sing even though &#8220;you&#8217;re the voice&#8221;. (<em>Moan. Bad, bad humour. My apologies.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The list already includes one Aussie number in &#8220;Are You Gonna Be My Girl?&#8221; by Jet. I didn&#8217;t know that this made it big anywhere outside of Australia&#8230; did it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/&#8230;rticle_id=62742 Warning: This post contains gratuitous Australian cultural references. The next version of Singstar will be &#8220;Singstar Rocks!&#8221;. Judging from the partial song list, it looks like it will contain fairly recent alt-pop-rock rather than 70-80&#8217;s glam or 80-90&#8217;s rock-and-roll. Previous versions of Singstar have been localised for different regions. Here, the Australian version of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/02\/06\/singstar_rocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Singstar Rocks!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-8F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3905,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/3905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}