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A fact from My Way killings appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 February 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that several karaoke bars in the Philippines had banned the song "My Way" due to the deaths attributed to it?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/February.

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"Karaoke turned deadly in the "My Way" killings". The AV Club. October 11, 2020.

More likely everyone's just sick of it

Everyone can sing My Way. There's always someone who comes along and can't find any song on the list they can sing, and then they see My Way. Being slow and having almost no music, it's boring to listen to. It kills whatever atmosphere the previous singers have managed to get going.

Regular singers avoid it because they know no one will be entertained by oh that song again.

I think this article looks too hard for a more interesting explanation, and the sources cited are tabloid (the New York Times is a big paper including serious and tabloid articles). It's simply a song that annoys a lot of people that frequent karaoke events, and which gets sung a lot. Gronky (talk) 13:41, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just read the full lyrics on the net. The song is harmless. The sinister speculations on this site are altogether unfounded. 178.38.151.183 (talk) 22:47, 29 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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