**"BACK IN MY DAY, WE CALLED THIS FRAUD, NOT 'ENTERTAINMENT'!"** 🎤🔥
Local man, 67-year-old retired factory foreman Dave Kowalski, is absolutely *livid* after discovering that the "live" karaoke night at the Rusty Nail Tavern has been using a hidden Bluetooth speaker to play pre-recorded vocals while patrons lip-sync.
"This isn't art, it's a con," Kowalski fumed in the comments of the "Smithville Happenings & Garbage Pickup" Facebook group. "I've been going there for 20 years. You know what I call a man standing on a stage pretending to sing while a machine does the work? **An employee of the month at Milli Vanilli Industries.** "
Kowalski claims he knew something was "fishy" when Brenda from Accounting, who "couldn't carry a tune in a bucket," suddenly belted out a flawless rendition of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You."
"It's an insult to every tone-deaf person who ever got booed off a stage," he added. "We need to bring back shame. And common sense. If your mouth says 'oooooh' and the speaker says 'AAAAAAAH,' maybe, just maybe, you're not a star. You're a liar."
The post has since gone viral, with 4,000 angry emojis and a petition circulating to require all karaoke machines in the tri-county area to display a neon sign reading: **"WARNING: MAY CONTAIN TRACE AMOUNTS OF ACTUAL TALENT."**