There were times when you were singing, sometimes there'd be other contestants who really didn't like you. They would pull the plug on the microphone, pay off the DJ to ruin the song, to make the song skip.
We really came from nothing, as in when we moved to a new place, we didn't have a couch, we didn't have a TV. We just had a cassette player and our clothes. We had to borrow chairs from our neighbors.