# Sorry, we don't do ballads

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 20, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-we-dont-do-ballads/843729 "2019-11-20T21:32:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-we-dont-do-ballads/843729/41 "2019-11-24T03:49:54Z")

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Funny thing about a lot of Halen’s early FM radio hits, they’re hard to do as karaoke. Except Pretty Woman.

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**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-we-dont-do-ballads/843729/42 "2019-11-24T03:52:52Z")

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> [@AncientHumanoid](#):
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> Funny thing about a lot of Halen’s early FM radio hits, they’re hard to do as karaoke. Except Pretty Woman.

Very. That’s Dave’s range and lyrics and Ed’s non-traditional rhythm playing. And hard to cover. That’s all four of them.

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**Post date:** [November 24, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-we-dont-do-ballads/843729/43 "2019-11-24T13:29:40Z")

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I listened to a few seconds of each song on three Village People albums and there weren’t any ballads. In fact, all of songs were basically the same.

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