The karaoke is an exercise that starts out with crossing your right foot over your left foot and moving quickly from side to side.
That's carioca - or should be. Named after its similarity to a Brazilian dance. Karaoke is atrocious pub singing to a backing track. I suppose this is another instance of people (probably Yanks) mishearing something and spreading it until it becomes the norm.
It came to my attention after Neville referred to a Grealish dive as karaoke movement (as referenced in the above tweet). I looked it up and learned that it was a foot crossover drill used in several sports. Interestingly the one video that I found was by an Australian who was demonstrating the move to two tennis players.
I don't doubt you're correct, but as I say it's a corruption of carioca. Karaoke is a Japanese word meaning "empty orchestra". It makes no sense at all as an exercise movement whereas a dance movement that is almost identical does. Then again, "stonewall" makes absolutely no sense in the way it's being bandied about these days, so I might as well give up.
I know you weren't questioning my reply, you were explaining your take on it. Having not heard of carioca, I thought I'd do a Bumps. The word (derived from kari'oka) was used originally to refer to anything related to the City of Rio de Janeiro including inhabitants of the city - cariocas who are credited with inventing a sport - footvolley and the bossa nova. As you say, possibly a corruption but given carioca is a corruption of sorts itself, maybe it was felt 'safer' to call it after a crazy singing trend than risk upsetting an indigenous people.
Language mistakes happen until they become the norm and then eventually the accepted correct meaning. If you google the word "literally" you will literally see this: Notice the "Informal" definition at the bottom. (It bothers me that the definition for literally contains the word "literally") Literally, is literally in the process of changing meaning to mean the complete opposite of what it actually means. 20 years ago you wouldn't see that misuse acknowledged in a dictionary... It blows my mind though that any dictionary is now "allowing" this use of the word as accepted, even if informal. Give it another 20 years and that will probably be the standard definition. Not the first time this has happened. 'Decimate' no longer usually means reduce by one tenth, 'Awesome' is no longer a synonym for 'Awful'. There is no shortage of words that are in the process of changing their accepted meaning through misuse.
And speaking of which. Can't make fun of misuse of the world literally without mentioning Harry Redknapp: “He literally chopped him in half in that challenge” “The ball literally gave him a haircut.” “Alonso and Sissoko have been picked to literally sit in front of the back four.” “He’s literally just eaten the fourth official.” #zanjinho "He’s literally turned him inside out." “[Michael Owen] literally turns into a greyhound” “Scholes has such a great footballing brain. He’ll see a picture in his head and literally paint it in front of you.” “Center forwards have the ability to make time stand still. And when Chopra got the ball, it literally did just that.” “He had to cut back inside onto his left, because he literally hasn’t got a right foot” “He’s literally sold the defender a dummy” 'These balls now - they literally explode off your feet.' “The crowd behind the goal are literally going insane.”
I'm aware of that, but it takes time for a corrupted meaning to become "correct" to the majority. I doubt anyone outside of sports media thinks of exercise when they hear the word karaoke.
Gary Neville commentary comes back to haunt him as Liverpool fans call out Man City claim Gary Neville has seen his commentary resurface on a Man City penalty given last season after seemingly contradicting his recent comments over Liverpool's Diogo Jota. Gary Neville commentary comes back to haunt him as Liverpool fans call out Man City claim - Liverpool.com
It must be getting to the point where Sky find this a bit embarrassing too? He did not shut up on Monday, he thinks he can talk us into playing crap
