Say What? Karaoke (also known as SWK, and later SWK 2.0) is a game show that aired on the American cable television network MTV. The show evolved from the former MTV show: Say What?.
The basics of the show are formatted as a real karaoke machine. Various college contestants compete by singing a popular song (often a pop song) with the music video played at the same time, as well as lyrics playing at the bottom of the screen. At times, there are t...
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Say What? Karaoke (also known as SWK, and later SWK 2.0) is a game show that aired on the American cable television network MTV. The show evolved from the former MTV show: Say What?.
The basics of the show are formatted as a real karaoke machine. Various college contestants compete by singing a popular song (often a pop song) with the music video played at the same time, as well as lyrics playing at the bottom of the screen. At times, there are two contestants that compete together. Afterwards they are rated by the judges on a 1-10 with plastic number signs, the rating number is also the number of points thay have earned. Similar to other competitions, the finalists end up in first, second, and third position which depends on the number of points they have earned.
The show began as a special that was extrapolated from the current MTV show Say What?. The original specials were tongue-in-cheek; the hosts even admitted that they thought karaoke was a lame premise for a show. However, the...
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