There’s a sort of science to picking the perfect karaoke song. It has to be a well-known track, something catchy that people can sing along to easily. A little melodrama and theatricality doesn’t hurt either, especially if you’ve been tossing back cocktails all night (and, really, who does karaoke sober?).
My go-to favorite is No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak.” Everyone knows it, plus I can totally ham it up. It’s pretty perfect.
What’s your song of choice?
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No Doubts I’m Just a Girl and Jon Bon Jovi Living on a Prayer are good too.
I have a penchant for “Me and Bobby McGee.” When I drink I tend to turn into a country music star.
Oh maaaan, I love karaoke. When I was in Japan on exchange, my friends would make me sing “Land Down Under” by Men at Work every single time we’d go out. It has a long flute part that’s super awkward to wait through. Silly fun though.
My favourite song is a Japanese one, which is super easy to sing along to (every line ends the same way, so it pretty much halves the lyrics you need to know!), it’s super fun and loud and I get to show off when I’m with my Japanese friends, haha. It’s “Eenen” by Ulfuls.
 (Lyrics here: http://www.jpopasia.com/lyrics/6791/ulfuls/eenen.html if anyone’s interested)
Other than those, Disney songs are always good (favourite is “I’ll Make a Man Out of You” and I had a polished double-act with a friend doing “Hakuna Matata”) and Lady Gaga songs always get everyone else singing so any vocal failings are hidden!
IÂ really love karaoke. >>
I have very little karaoke experience but my first (and only) one was with Spice Girls’ Wannabe. Because ZIGGAZIGA is great to blurt out by seven nervous giggle seventeen year olds.
My go to is Shania Twain’s “Man I Feel Like a Woman”. Speaking of hamming it up !
I hate karaoke because I can’t sing for shit. The last time Neil talked me into it we did Cotton Eye Joe and people were so irritated that it was actually pretty fun.
I am a frog. I do not do karaoke. It’s for the public good. That said watching a dear friend of mine sing “I’m on a Boat” at a karaoke bar was pretty fun.
Ohhh, such a good choice.
My go-to is usually “I Feel the Earth Move” because it’s got a good laid-back karaoke vibe. Â Last time I did Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie” though, and that was fun because I really got to belt it out. Â Though when I requested the song, the DJ was like, “Oh, yeah. Â Amy Winehouse. Â She was that weird chick, right? Â Whatever, fine.” Â But then, there was a disturbing amount of Nickleback being sung, so I guess his was the prevailing attitude at that particular bar.
Sounds like the douchiest karaoke bar ever.
My go to song in Billy Joel “Only the Good Die Young.” It’s super fun to cheese out on, and usually the crowd knows it and sings along too.
FML. B. Sc., M. Sc., years of experience, and apparently I am qualified for nothing.
Oh, and my go-to karaoke is Spice Girls Stop. It has a dance that everyone will do along with you.
Please, do not do Defying Gravity unless you are Lea Michele, Idina Menzel, Chris Colfer, or similarly trained and talented. Spare the rest of us and our poor ears.
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Psh, whatever, in my head I’m totally Idina Menzel. :)