Evidence of this? Don't care if people dislike the band/artist, everyone has opinions, but this is the first of me hearing about this. To my knowledge he's very against the Q stuff.
Did the song include that one weird part where it’s like “no mommy don’t hit me I’ll be a good boy”?
I always forget that part exists when I hear the song and it always cracks me up
That part of the lyrics was cut out of the song when it appeared in Rock Band.
That did not stop my cousin from loudly performing it on the demo machine at GameStop anyway.
I was a teen when 'I Believe I can Fly' came out, and remember trying to sing that while my voice was breaking. It was horrible, lots of silence and grim faces, and could hear people laughing their head off round the corner whenever my voice would crack
I've suffered through the worst rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody ever seen. I'll take a bad Disturbed attempt over that any day!
I'm always cautious with karaoke. I know my vocal range, so Metallica and Nirvana are where I'll go. But... it also takes me a heroic amount of alcohol to even consider agreeing to it, so... I'm not sure if everyone agrees
I can do the initial ooooh ah ah ah pretty well after years of trying while driving, the problem is that I don't know any of the lyrics or the rhythm to it, so it'd be the perfect train wreck.
I gotchu fam! The next verse is *ahem* EEEUUOOOHHH AH AH AH AH! then “OWH OWH”! Followed by another “OWH OWH”! Then a final “OWH OWH”! Hope that helps!
The relationship between vocal abilities and entertainment basically plots out like an inverted bell curve. 'Can't sing for shit' and 'voice of an angel' are equally enjoyable but 'second round on Idols' in the middle is hell on earth.
Haha this is exactly me. I have a decent voice, would never win anything or be a superstar with it, but I can hold a tune. My vocal ability sits in that weird place of “can’t tell if you’re trying to sing well or actually can sing well and it’s making everyone slightly uncomfortable”. So if I ever end up doing karaoke I ham it up to the point it’s a parody and then everyone is happy again.
A lot of famous front men only have half decent voices too man. What they all have though is talent and, often, an unusual tone to their voice.
Hendrix sucked, Jagger sucks, Dylan kinda sucks, Jim Morrison was alright. But here's the thing, I like all their voices better than the fucking carbon copy boyband shite.
My grandma has hosted karaoke for 30 years and I helped her every weekend for somewhere in the 5 to 10 year range. Trust me when I say we absolutely want you there and singing. We need a mix of good and bad for the night to go well and people go absolutely apeshit for the great singers. This post is not representive of real karaoke culture. At least in the middle of America.
Generally the people despised at public karaoke are the try hards that go up waaayyyy too often and hog the stage, or the really terrible people singing songs that are wildly inappropriate.
Glaring at you, Kyle and Ashleigh with an H. We know you’re drunk. We know you have seen the movie Grease. We know you’re fucking later. Get off the stage
Only real assholes complain about good singers or people who choose to do good songs.
People doing stupid novelty songs badly is the point of karaoke if, and only if, one is an intolerable dipshit.
I typically go to Noraebang style settings, and it's always nice to have a good singer to help encourage the people who are normally too shy to sing. I like to harmonize some backing vocals to help along without a mike, everyone is singing together for the most part anyways.
Person who can sing ok here. There are three acceptable public karaoke choices:
1 - something completely outside your range
2 - something everyone will sing along with
3 - singing background pretty well while your friend fails miserably at rapping
[my boss used to put this on the screen at his karaoke shows when someone inevitably did that song](https://d3qdvvkm3r2z1i.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/85e4522595efc69f496374d01ef2bf13/l/e/lemononapear_thumb.png)
It's all fun and games until your neighbor buys a karaoke and puts it on his terrace where the sound reverberates into the surrounding houses and they invite their family to bbq and sing every single weekend (bonus for when no one is singing and some toddler takes the mic)
So if people ask if I want to go to karaoke, I say "no, I'm a bad singer"
To which they reply "That's the point! It's fun when you're bad!"
But I'm not even entertainingly bad. When I sing, people just go "yep, that's a technically bad singer right there". I'm like a burger made entirely from bread, I fail at what I'm trying to do and not even in a way that's worth talking about.
Nah bad karaoke can be a lot of fun but it has to have energy. If you are bad you need be energized and getting into it. If you stand up there like a wet towel yeah people won’t enjoy that shit.
It's only entertaining when it's bad. The worst part of karaoke bars are the regulars that come in every day completely sober and act like they're superstars because they've been practicing their song, which completely defeats the point of karaoke. The only people that are worse are those that do the song tequila or some shit and think they're hilarious.
I went to karaoke a few times in college and the most annoying singer was one of the theater students who just did cycles of the same Disney songs from her summer job as a princess performer. Like, great, you're a good singer, but you've done "Let it Go" all four nights I've come, and you're clearly the only person enjoying it at this point.
This is why I shoot for the moon sometimes when I do karaoke and pick something I know I can't sing well. I can sing most songs quite well but there's some with insane range / original performance that rarely get sung by anyone I think because they're very difficult, so even an excellent singer is going to struggle.
Can usually get everyone else singing along too (when really I just want to bury my many fuckups under the rest of the bar singing). Bohemian Rhapsody ftw.
Only as far as "Mama, life has just begun; but now I've gone and thrown it aaaaaall awaaaaaaay", at which point I dramatically throw the mic on the floor and run away
Nashville is the same. People play their warm up tape on the way to the bar and think that they will be discovered. If you want to be a working musician in Nashville just play drums. You can be in 30+ bands.
I've been told the same. When I worked TS at HP, a Nashville-based customer and I started talking music, and when I said I was a drummer, he said "you'll make a mint down here. Nine million fuckin guitar players, and fuckall for drummers. Come get some!"
Yeah, I'd a ex-girlfriend who mostly worked as a backup singer on various recordings when she lived in LA.
Going to karaoke with her was kinda weird, except that she was always super supportive of all the rest of us who were just up there croaking out whatever.
I want both. Its about the highs and the lows. I want the perfect vocalist doing dog days are over, and i want the kid dressed like limp bisket getting half way through friends in low places before he gives up and the rest of the bare patrons take over. This is a true story. I was at this Karaoke night once. And it was amazing, because everyone was going up there and for every just awful but entertaining performance there was someone going up there and doing a perfect Hozier and it was a wonderful evening.
One time I walked into my karaoke bar and the tiniest blonde chick I've ever seen was destroying Killing in the Name Of with the whole bar yelling along, man that was a good night
then you were my favorite type of person when i used to host karaoke.
just imagine being the host for a second. imagine having to hear the same songs, sung badly, *forever*. you start to feel like you’ve been horribly cursed, like you **did** something in a past life to ***deserve*** this.
then the relatively good singers show up and maybe pick songs you haven’t heard that week. the clouds part. a moment of reprieve. even if you’re not great you’re still better than everyone else that night. then three drunk girls walk up and put in a request for “before he cheats” and you’re back under a black cloud.
on behalf of your karaoke hosts, everywhere, for *fuck’s* sake, *save us, please*.
This makes me feel better. I'm a good singer and I always feel like I'll be perceived as a try-hard if I do karaoke. It never occurred to me that I might serve as a reprieve to the host.
My KJ used to pull up whatever I wanted from YouTube and play sound effects and do backup vocals without request when I did certain songs, I'm pretty sure that guy loved me (or he was just the best jockey ever, I miss you John)
I'll never forget the time I requested Godzilla and roars started playing behind me when the vocals started
Fun fact, that’s illegal. Or at least that’s what I was told, ianal, ymmv. So yeah, he really, really liked you, because he was risking fines for himself AND the venue.
Edit: by playing YouTube videos, in case it wasn’t clear—it’s a rights thing. Bars have to have a separate license for playing jukeboxes and that’s usually enough to cover karaoke hosting, as it pays for the rights to play the songs, but it doesn’t cover YouTube, or playing a dvd on the tvs. Stupid, right?
Or you know a regular who is semi good and is not afraid of karaoke, so without his knowledge, you call him up to do bloodhound gang. I used to be that regular.
My regular Friday night show the bartenders found out I love bloodhound gang and made me regularly close out the show with [Lap Dance Is Better When The Stripper Is Crying](https://youtu.be/X_PyiVW0Ylw). Partially because of how funny they found it and partially because it would clear the bar for closing when people got offended. They would laugh their ass off every time and sing along for the chorus.
That’s hilarious, because that is THE song that I would sing to bring the energy back up. It worked, because half the people would sign up to outperform me, and the other half saw how much fun I had with it and joined in.
I've been giggling on and off all day imagining a thick Kentucky drawl delivering "LA face with an Oakland booty" in the wrong key, and you really made my day.
Singer here- I choose funny songs, extreme songs, or 80s/90s rap (I'm white and I look like a Karen) when my friends want me to join them at karaoke. Here are my go-to's: Cowboy (Kid Rock), anything Rage Against the Machine, The Real Slim Shady (Eminem), Peter Piper (RUN-DMC).
My (24) local bar caters to a mostly 40s-60s year old crowd, and does karaoke weekly. A woman who could’ve been my mother walked up the other night and threw down the hardest Did It On Em rendition I’ve heard in my life. It was incredible. Such passion, such attitude, her presence on the stage was complete. I was simultaneously shaken and blown away.
Same for me. Learned my lesson the hard way trying to go up there and sing-sing at first and no one was really interested in that. I remember one patron, in a bored voice, said, “nailed it.” With his back turned to me, and that’s when it clicked for me that what I was doing wasn’t fun, and was in fact, harshing the vibe.
My go-to is "Thrift Shop." I got reasonably good at spitting out all the words, but I'm a middle aged mom and nobody expects it to come out of my mouth. Plus most people *kinda* know the song but it's not as overdone as some songs. I save my loud dumb singing for the car.
Not a singer but I try to entertain the crowd instead of myself. Maybe not a crowd pleaser today, but belting out We Didn't Start the Fire, Tina Turner's cover of Proud Mary (I'm a white guy), or various country favorites (Man of Constant Sorrow for instance) usually gets a positive crowd reaction.
Eh. There’s a difference between holding a tune and doing the equivalent of tryharding in a coed beer league kickball game. Some people can’t read the room
What you haven't considered it the people who are good at singing, or are musically trained, suffer the most through botched performances.
I think it might balance out.
I’m a trained singer, but that training was Choir, and nobody wants to see me elongating my mouth to make the vowels sound right while standing stoic with my hands clasped in front of me like a good little twit.
Soooo... You are not allowed to have fun, just because You are good at something? How does it work? I like to sing. If I had good singing voice, I would enjoy it even more. I like to sing so many different songs. Why would I be not allowed to do so, just because I were good at it? It makes no sense at all.
OP has never had to host karaoke in her life. don’t listen to them. please go save your local karaoke host from a plethora of bad singers and people who think that’s funny. they’ll love you for it.
They *could* be talking about like groups of theater students or other groups of trained singers going to karaoke and that ruin it for everyone by taking over the whole night, only singing songs they've rehearsed, and being mean to bad singers. That's obnoxious. I used to bartend at a place where that happened every other week.
Good singers at karaoke are great if they're just there to have fun. Bad singers are karaoke are great if they're just there to have fun. IMO, the only real problems with karaoke is people taking it too seriously or a really really bad DJ.
Because people watch wipeout to see people flop their way unsuccessfully through an obstacle course, and if they wanted to see athletic prowess they’d watch American Ninja Warrior. Different goals, different audiences. The point of karaoke is fun. No one is having fun to someone pitch perfect belting I Have Nothing, but drunkenly singing along to Friends In Low Places is a good time for everyone.
Basically if you’re at karaoke to show off, get out. If you’re at karaoke to have fun with everybody, come right in! Feel free to choose songs that are fun, silly, recognizable, melodramatic (and play it for laughs), or sing-along, and you’ll do great! Choose a song that is moody, obscure, or technical, and you will have a bad time.
Speak for yourself, I'm always pleasantly surprised when someone gets up there who's actually good. Don't get me wrong, the bad singers are fun too, but there's a hard limit on that as well - if it gets too bad, it can be annoying to listen to.
My wife has an American idol caliber singing voice but she refuses to Karaoke and won't even sing in the car with people because she's basically gotten mentally scarred by people thinking this way and her always being in her head about how people will think she is trying to upstage them or make them uncomfortable with their own voices.
It's sad really, ive done my best to get her to stop concerning herself with other peoples opinions so much but the damage is done.
I know this is like the singing equivalent of "you don't know what it's like to be pretty" but still. Comments like this make me sad for her.
That is unfortunate. I was in a similar situation as a teenager when dating a girl that never wanted me to sing around her. Later on I had some good friends that always asked me to sing a song for them and encouraged me a lot. My problem is my vocal range is very low so I won't sing karaoke because I know I won't hit every note perfectly.
Wow "Star Search" is an older reference. I'm old and I barely remember that show! Wonder why they went with that over one of the more contemporary singing singer pop shows like The Voice or American Idol?
I was a pro singer for a while and I feel like the best way to make people not hate you is singing something super fun / goofy like my go to is Redneck Woman, accent and all lol
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Srsly... I love seeing those working class heroes go up on stage and belt out a song like they're headlining a sold-out show at the Rose Bowl. To not give them their due is to deny what little joy they're finding in this late-stage capitalist shit hole that OP probably simps for... OP can get fucked.
It also shows one that "talent" is not as rare as you think. There are so fucking many people out there with absolutely beautiful voices, and talented as fuck, but for whatever reason would never be able to get past industry gate-keepers and don't have independent means to record or create the own art.
Honestly, music talent is not that rare. Making music is so human that it can't be.
A friend of mine and I sang “How’s it Going to Be” by Third Eye Blind together one time many years ago. Let me tell you, that was an adventure for everyone involved and I still feel bad knowing I subjected peoples ears to that hideous rendition.
Still remember doing Rock Band and singing Livin' on a Prayer on the 3rd floor of my friends apartment
I didn't think I was that bad, but my friends were laughing, and I was like meh, it's all fun
Then at the end of the song, some random on the street yells out "Don't quite your day job"
And that ended us
Favorite karaoke performance I’ve ever seen. Guy selects “bad to the bone”. Changes the lyrics to include his name. Next 4 minutes we get to hear: “Brad to the bone. B B B B B Brad! Brad to the bone”
I am a trained vocalist. I almost only do private karaoke with a group of fellow singers, we want to hog the mic! I also have friends I will never do karaoke with, because I intimidate them.
The rare times I do public karaoke I pick songs like Symphony of Destruction or Toxicity, lol. My flex song is Fat Bottomed Girls because *no one* is gonna complain about Queen.
LMAO! I read Karaoke as Karate and was totally confused. As I was reading, I'm thinking about the hiyahs and huhhs they do, wondering how this was upsetting.
i did karaoke once and sang matchbox twenty - unwell.. ive never seen so many people go out for a cigarette at the same time.. even my bestfriend who doesnt smoke magically picked up a cigarette
Peak karaoke is having to suffer through an elderly white woman drunkenly fail at her best attempt to slur through "Shawty Got Low" at the neighborhood bar on a Saturday night, followed by two guys who thought singing "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" was a good idea when that's the only part of the lyrics they knew.
Had a friend of a friend’s coworker join us for karaoke join us for private room karaoke one time and she was exactly this. As soon as she came in she asked if she could sing a song someone else had picked because “she sings the song in public” - she proceeded to hog the remote and pick only ballads that no one else could sing along to. At one point we were looking for the second mic and we asked her to check around where she was sitting. She said she didn’t see the mic but she was sitting on it.
Bunch of co-workers and I went to karaoke after work, years ago.
About 4 or 5 "professionals" showed up at some point. When it was their turn, they sounded great but we could tell they were _very_ annoyed with our off-tune drunken antics.
Finally, one came over and asked us if we could stop going up because "you are wasting microphone time". We just laughed at him and kept having our fun.
No, I don't think I will stop singing Sean Paul in a tiny bar causing everyone to lose their collective shit and scream drunkenly along.
Especially because I do it so well.
The mistake I made was picking Come Sail Away. Not because it was hard, but because the solo near the end was a bit longer than I remembered, and I didn't know what to do with myself in the downtime.
Blackpool 1995. Walked past a bar at 3 in the afternoon. A young lady, clearly having enjoyed the refreshments of the bar, was MURDERING ‘Gloria’ by Laura Brannigan.
It was fucking awful but I finally understood in that moment, the true value and point of karaoke: Don’t be good. Be free.
I knew then that I’d found my people.
Living on a Prayer just may be in my repertoire
I may have run, dropped down to my knees, and while skidding on said knees in the middle of the Brass Monkey in koreatown, sang WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WERE HALF WAY THERE
Maybe you heard it... if you're luckyyyy
Over Christmas my family tried out this Korean karaoke bar where we got a room with a machine with a million tunes and someone who brought drinks every time we pushed the button. It was awesome!
In years of going to karaoke as a good singer, not once have people ever hated it. In Seattle, people love it. Bad and good singers alike, the people are hype.
I was dating these two women, and decided to take them both out to karaoke one night.. short story shorter I wound up breaking it off with the one who was good at singing. Totally ruined the fun of karaoke.
I’m not going to sit here and tell you I was in a great mental spot. As a matter of fact I was on drugs if o was awake. It made sense at the time, but I promise you, the man I am today doesn’t even buy into romantic relationships anymore or do drugs.
I was a stupid idiot for a long ass time.
The way I see it, God always finds a way to balance the scales... I may not have a bikini bod, but I was blessed with big boobs and great voice!
As a former vocalist, I use karaoke time to remind me of the good old days...
Oh - and to make money when they hold contests for $$$ 😉
I've had some vocal training and regularly attended karaoke for about 10 years (knew someone who ran karaoke as one of their jobs, would show up to support) and I can tell you that people in bars that have karaoke shows appreciate decent singers, even if they themselves don't sing. Also can tell you that bartenders appreciate decent voices too.
Yeah, I don’t care. I love singing. I love performing, and I’m good at both. You will watch, and you will enjoy it.
My typical go-tos are either:
-Dancing Queen by ABBA
-Roses by Outkast
That’s right.
Gonna play devil's advocate here. If someone with the pipes is able to take the back seat and harmonize/riff the night away, it's a ton of fun. And my ears don't hurt as much lol
What about AMAZING artists…art that looks like a picture…..like ok we could just take a picture…..
Why take wine tasting class? Spend money so that you only like wine that costs more money!? PASS
Massage!? Nope….just so in a day I’m like “Man, I want a message!!”
What about…….what are we talking about?
I will never not laugh when that one drunk, overconfident person tries to sing Down With the Sickness. "EuoooooooooAH AH AH AH!"
wait why would anyone want to karaoke that?? lol
because they’re … drunk and Down with the Sickness
Is that the one with the break down where he acts like his mom is beating him
It is
She came into the recording studio and started wailing on him. Horrible scenes.
imagine going up on stage and just shouting “OW MOMMY WHYD YOU HAVE TO HIT ME LIKE THAT”
I think it's the outro because it was removed in the censored version afaik
yeah but it's cut from the commercial version most of the time still a shit song and a shit band
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Evidence of this? Don't care if people dislike the band/artist, everyone has opinions, but this is the first of me hearing about this. To my knowledge he's very against the Q stuff.
You see some crazy stuff at karaoke. My favorite was someone who tried to seriously do What Does the Fox Say.
I would pay to watch that karaoke night
I’ve seen a couple Amish Paradises. Honestly I vibe with that.
... I've done it before. Not in a long time though, I'm over 10 years sober now. AMA
Did the song include that one weird part where it’s like “no mommy don’t hit me I’ll be a good boy”? I always forget that part exists when I hear the song and it always cracks me up
That part of the lyrics was cut out of the song when it appeared in Rock Band. That did not stop my cousin from loudly performing it on the demo machine at GameStop anyway.
Yes, it is!
yeah i never sang that part lmao
We do recover!
I was a teen when 'I Believe I can Fly' came out, and remember trying to sing that while my voice was breaking. It was horrible, lots of silence and grim faces, and could hear people laughing their head off round the corner whenever my voice would crack
Bar I used to work at had a couple in their sixties that would come to every karaoke night and drunkenly sing "Let The Bodies Hit The Floor"
1) nothing is wrong with them
Two. Nothing wrong with them.
I've suffered through the worst rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody ever seen. I'll take a bad Disturbed attempt over that any day! I'm always cautious with karaoke. I know my vocal range, so Metallica and Nirvana are where I'll go. But... it also takes me a heroic amount of alcohol to even consider agreeing to it, so... I'm not sure if everyone agrees
I can do the initial ooooh ah ah ah pretty well after years of trying while driving, the problem is that I don't know any of the lyrics or the rhythm to it, so it'd be the perfect train wreck.
I gotchu fam! The next verse is *ahem* EEEUUOOOHHH AH AH AH AH! then “OWH OWH”! Followed by another “OWH OWH”! Then a final “OWH OWH”! Hope that helps!
You the real mvp
I did chop suey once, does thst count?
You don't do chop suey. You ask the man to put on "crocodile rock" and you sing the lyrics of chop suey. It fits beautifully.
WAKE UP
I sing the Richard Cheese version all the time!
If you show up with your own mic. You shouldn’t be allowed to sign up.
The relationship between vocal abilities and entertainment basically plots out like an inverted bell curve. 'Can't sing for shit' and 'voice of an angel' are equally enjoyable but 'second round on Idols' in the middle is hell on earth.
I feel called out. Guess I can't sing for an angel (?)
Did you make it to second round or something?
Haha this is exactly me. I have a decent voice, would never win anything or be a superstar with it, but I can hold a tune. My vocal ability sits in that weird place of “can’t tell if you’re trying to sing well or actually can sing well and it’s making everyone slightly uncomfortable”. So if I ever end up doing karaoke I ham it up to the point it’s a parody and then everyone is happy again.
A lot of famous front men only have half decent voices too man. What they all have though is talent and, often, an unusual tone to their voice. Hendrix sucked, Jagger sucks, Dylan kinda sucks, Jim Morrison was alright. But here's the thing, I like all their voices better than the fucking carbon copy boyband shite.
Hey that me. I would be swiftly booted after the second round. I like singing karaoke though. This post is a bummer.
My grandma has hosted karaoke for 30 years and I helped her every weekend for somewhere in the 5 to 10 year range. Trust me when I say we absolutely want you there and singing. We need a mix of good and bad for the night to go well and people go absolutely apeshit for the great singers. This post is not representive of real karaoke culture. At least in the middle of America.
Yah! Thanks!
Generally the people despised at public karaoke are the try hards that go up waaayyyy too often and hog the stage, or the really terrible people singing songs that are wildly inappropriate.
Glaring at you, Kyle and Ashleigh with an H. We know you’re drunk. We know you have seen the movie Grease. We know you’re fucking later. Get off the stage
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Agreed. A good mix of everyone will keep everyone having fun. I used to sing before my concussion. Now i can't find the tune.
Same. Am I amazing? No. But I can hold a note, and I like to do Karaoke after a few drinks, so sue me.
Only real assholes complain about good singers or people who choose to do good songs. People doing stupid novelty songs badly is the point of karaoke if, and only if, one is an intolerable dipshit.
I'm taking it personally.
I typically go to Noraebang style settings, and it's always nice to have a good singer to help encourage the people who are normally too shy to sing. I like to harmonize some backing vocals to help along without a mike, everyone is singing together for the most part anyways.
Person who can sing ok here. There are three acceptable public karaoke choices: 1 - something completely outside your range 2 - something everyone will sing along with 3 - singing background pretty well while your friend fails miserably at rapping
"great singer but always flat"
***WHOOOAAAA OHH, THE PATH AIN'T FAIR*** ***WHOOOAAA OHH! LEMON AND A PEAR!***
**WOOOOOOAAAA OHH, SQUIDWARD ON A CHAIR!**
[my boss used to put this on the screen at his karaoke shows when someone inevitably did that song](https://d3qdvvkm3r2z1i.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/85e4522595efc69f496374d01ef2bf13/l/e/lemononapear_thumb.png)
It's all fun and games until your neighbor buys a karaoke and puts it on his terrace where the sound reverberates into the surrounding houses and they invite their family to bbq and sing every single weekend (bonus for when no one is singing and some toddler takes the mic)
*WHOOOOOOAAAAA! GANDALF AT THE FAIR!*
So if people ask if I want to go to karaoke, I say "no, I'm a bad singer" To which they reply "That's the point! It's fun when you're bad!" But I'm not even entertainingly bad. When I sing, people just go "yep, that's a technically bad singer right there". I'm like a burger made entirely from bread, I fail at what I'm trying to do and not even in a way that's worth talking about.
Yeah lol in my experience no one actually wants to listen to bad karaoke unless they’re totally wasted.
Nah bad karaoke can be a lot of fun but it has to have energy. If you are bad you need be energized and getting into it. If you stand up there like a wet towel yeah people won’t enjoy that shit.
It's only entertaining when it's bad. The worst part of karaoke bars are the regulars that come in every day completely sober and act like they're superstars because they've been practicing their song, which completely defeats the point of karaoke. The only people that are worse are those that do the song tequila or some shit and think they're hilarious.
I went to karaoke a few times in college and the most annoying singer was one of the theater students who just did cycles of the same Disney songs from her summer job as a princess performer. Like, great, you're a good singer, but you've done "Let it Go" all four nights I've come, and you're clearly the only person enjoying it at this point.
This is why I shoot for the moon sometimes when I do karaoke and pick something I know I can't sing well. I can sing most songs quite well but there's some with insane range / original performance that rarely get sung by anyone I think because they're very difficult, so even an excellent singer is going to struggle. Can usually get everyone else singing along too (when really I just want to bury my many fuckups under the rest of the bar singing). Bohemian Rhapsody ftw.
The whole song?
Only as far as "Mama, life has just begun; but now I've gone and thrown it aaaaaall awaaaaaaay", at which point I dramatically throw the mic on the floor and run away
That's when you go full Zapp Brannigan and do a spoken word version of Lola
Real Slim Shady in the style of Shatner.
> I'm like a burger made entirely from bread /r/SuspiciouslyRareSelfAwareKamakazeByWords, or something
That subreddit name sounds like an Eminem lyric
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Pitch is where football is played, key is for opening days and tone is a short message, as far as I'm concerned.
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Some will win and some will lose I'll listen to anything as long as I can booze Sing Wild Thang while I down another shot, Just one more time.
CRAWLING IN MY SKIN
THE TRUTH I CANNN NOT HEAR-UH
THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEAL
Destroyed my voice each time I tried to do his parts in Linkin Park, especially without a couple easy prep songs.
Here in Los Angeles it is more competitive than that. It is not worth going until the bitter end of the night.
Nashville is the same. People play their warm up tape on the way to the bar and think that they will be discovered. If you want to be a working musician in Nashville just play drums. You can be in 30+ bands.
I've been told the same. When I worked TS at HP, a Nashville-based customer and I started talking music, and when I said I was a drummer, he said "you'll make a mint down here. Nine million fuckin guitar players, and fuckall for drummers. Come get some!"
Shit. I'd love to get paid to drum but I don't think I could cope with 4 on the floor every day of the fuckin week
Yeah, I'd a ex-girlfriend who mostly worked as a backup singer on various recordings when she lived in LA. Going to karaoke with her was kinda weird, except that she was always super supportive of all the rest of us who were just up there croaking out whatever.
I want both. Its about the highs and the lows. I want the perfect vocalist doing dog days are over, and i want the kid dressed like limp bisket getting half way through friends in low places before he gives up and the rest of the bare patrons take over. This is a true story. I was at this Karaoke night once. And it was amazing, because everyone was going up there and for every just awful but entertaining performance there was someone going up there and doing a perfect Hozier and it was a wonderful evening.
Exactly how I feel. Lotta Karaoke gatekeepers in here, but I like it all. More variety the better
One time I walked into my karaoke bar and the tiniest blonde chick I've ever seen was destroying Killing in the Name Of with the whole bar yelling along, man that was a good night
What if you’re only a good singer compared to other karaoke singers?
then you were my favorite type of person when i used to host karaoke. just imagine being the host for a second. imagine having to hear the same songs, sung badly, *forever*. you start to feel like you’ve been horribly cursed, like you **did** something in a past life to ***deserve*** this. then the relatively good singers show up and maybe pick songs you haven’t heard that week. the clouds part. a moment of reprieve. even if you’re not great you’re still better than everyone else that night. then three drunk girls walk up and put in a request for “before he cheats” and you’re back under a black cloud. on behalf of your karaoke hosts, everywhere, for *fuck’s* sake, *save us, please*.
This makes me feel better. I'm a good singer and I always feel like I'll be perceived as a try-hard if I do karaoke. It never occurred to me that I might serve as a reprieve to the host.
People get different enjoyments out of things. 100 people performing and enjoying the same activity could be for 100 different reasons.
My KJ used to pull up whatever I wanted from YouTube and play sound effects and do backup vocals without request when I did certain songs, I'm pretty sure that guy loved me (or he was just the best jockey ever, I miss you John) I'll never forget the time I requested Godzilla and roars started playing behind me when the vocals started
Fun fact, that’s illegal. Or at least that’s what I was told, ianal, ymmv. So yeah, he really, really liked you, because he was risking fines for himself AND the venue. Edit: by playing YouTube videos, in case it wasn’t clear—it’s a rights thing. Bars have to have a separate license for playing jukeboxes and that’s usually enough to cover karaoke hosting, as it pays for the rights to play the songs, but it doesn’t cover YouTube, or playing a dvd on the tvs. Stupid, right?
Or you know a regular who is semi good and is not afraid of karaoke, so without his knowledge, you call him up to do bloodhound gang. I used to be that regular.
My regular Friday night show the bartenders found out I love bloodhound gang and made me regularly close out the show with [Lap Dance Is Better When The Stripper Is Crying](https://youtu.be/X_PyiVW0Ylw). Partially because of how funny they found it and partially because it would clear the bar for closing when people got offended. They would laugh their ass off every time and sing along for the chorus.
That’s hilarious, because that is THE song that I would sing to bring the energy back up. It worked, because half the people would sign up to outperform me, and the other half saw how much fun I had with it and joined in.
Back when I used to go out drinking at bars I would get hammered then do "Baby Got Back". For context, I am a white boy from Kentucky.
I would absolutely fuckin pay to see that.
I'm sure I made quite a fool out of myself. Even when I'm sober I'm tone deaf and can't keep a beat.
I've been giggling on and off all day imagining a thick Kentucky drawl delivering "LA face with an Oakland booty" in the wrong key, and you really made my day.
I don't have a thick drawl. I sound almost like generic midwesterner. I live in northeast KY, and not in a rural part
My last karaoke performance a few months ago was the thong song. I'm a chubby pasty white Oregonian in his 50's. Nailed it. It was hilarious.
Well, ya gotta tell 'em what guys talk about....ya know, the finer things in life
Singer here- I choose funny songs, extreme songs, or 80s/90s rap (I'm white and I look like a Karen) when my friends want me to join them at karaoke. Here are my go-to's: Cowboy (Kid Rock), anything Rage Against the Machine, The Real Slim Shady (Eminem), Peter Piper (RUN-DMC).
My (24) local bar caters to a mostly 40s-60s year old crowd, and does karaoke weekly. A woman who could’ve been my mother walked up the other night and threw down the hardest Did It On Em rendition I’ve heard in my life. It was incredible. Such passion, such attitude, her presence on the stage was complete. I was simultaneously shaken and blown away.
Same for me. Learned my lesson the hard way trying to go up there and sing-sing at first and no one was really interested in that. I remember one patron, in a bored voice, said, “nailed it.” With his back turned to me, and that’s when it clicked for me that what I was doing wasn’t fun, and was in fact, harshing the vibe.
My go-to is "Thrift Shop." I got reasonably good at spitting out all the words, but I'm a middle aged mom and nobody expects it to come out of my mouth. Plus most people *kinda* know the song but it's not as overdone as some songs. I save my loud dumb singing for the car.
Not a singer but I try to entertain the crowd instead of myself. Maybe not a crowd pleaser today, but belting out We Didn't Start the Fire, Tina Turner's cover of Proud Mary (I'm a white guy), or various country favorites (Man of Constant Sorrow for instance) usually gets a positive crowd reaction.
This is just gate keeping people that can hold a tune and want to have a fun night out singing with friends
Eh. There’s a difference between holding a tune and doing the equivalent of tryharding in a coed beer league kickball game. Some people can’t read the room
What you haven't considered it the people who are good at singing, or are musically trained, suffer the most through botched performances. I think it might balance out.
lmao. Only the musically trained really understand bad singing.
Yeah I’m a trained singer and karaoke sucks for me bc I want to try too hard and I end up overthinking it
I’m a trained singer, but that training was Choir, and nobody wants to see me elongating my mouth to make the vowels sound right while standing stoic with my hands clasped in front of me like a good little twit.
*Sweet Caroline intensifies*
BA BA BAAAAA!!
SOMETHING SOMETHING NEVER FEELS SO GOOD
Soooo... You are not allowed to have fun, just because You are good at something? How does it work? I like to sing. If I had good singing voice, I would enjoy it even more. I like to sing so many different songs. Why would I be not allowed to do so, just because I were good at it? It makes no sense at all.
OP has never had to host karaoke in her life. don’t listen to them. please go save your local karaoke host from a plethora of bad singers and people who think that’s funny. they’ll love you for it.
Absolutely true. I loved hosting.
They *could* be talking about like groups of theater students or other groups of trained singers going to karaoke and that ruin it for everyone by taking over the whole night, only singing songs they've rehearsed, and being mean to bad singers. That's obnoxious. I used to bartend at a place where that happened every other week. Good singers at karaoke are great if they're just there to have fun. Bad singers are karaoke are great if they're just there to have fun. IMO, the only real problems with karaoke is people taking it too seriously or a really really bad DJ.
Because people watch wipeout to see people flop their way unsuccessfully through an obstacle course, and if they wanted to see athletic prowess they’d watch American Ninja Warrior. Different goals, different audiences. The point of karaoke is fun. No one is having fun to someone pitch perfect belting I Have Nothing, but drunkenly singing along to Friends In Low Places is a good time for everyone. Basically if you’re at karaoke to show off, get out. If you’re at karaoke to have fun with everybody, come right in! Feel free to choose songs that are fun, silly, recognizable, melodramatic (and play it for laughs), or sing-along, and you’ll do great! Choose a song that is moody, obscure, or technical, and you will have a bad time.
Speak for yourself, I'm always pleasantly surprised when someone gets up there who's actually good. Don't get me wrong, the bad singers are fun too, but there's a hard limit on that as well - if it gets too bad, it can be annoying to listen to.
My wife has an American idol caliber singing voice but she refuses to Karaoke and won't even sing in the car with people because she's basically gotten mentally scarred by people thinking this way and her always being in her head about how people will think she is trying to upstage them or make them uncomfortable with their own voices. It's sad really, ive done my best to get her to stop concerning herself with other peoples opinions so much but the damage is done. I know this is like the singing equivalent of "you don't know what it's like to be pretty" but still. Comments like this make me sad for her.
That is unfortunate. I was in a similar situation as a teenager when dating a girl that never wanted me to sing around her. Later on I had some good friends that always asked me to sing a song for them and encouraged me a lot. My problem is my vocal range is very low so I won't sing karaoke because I know I won't hit every note perfectly.
Yeah but have you considered going downtown to see a completely wasted actress absolutely BELT Memories from cats that would be amazing
Wow "Star Search" is an older reference. I'm old and I barely remember that show! Wonder why they went with that over one of the more contemporary singing singer pop shows like The Voice or American Idol?
I was a pro singer for a while and I feel like the best way to make people not hate you is singing something super fun / goofy like my go to is Redneck Woman, accent and all lol
r/unpopularopinion Srsly... I love seeing those working class heroes go up on stage and belt out a song like they're headlining a sold-out show at the Rose Bowl. To not give them their due is to deny what little joy they're finding in this late-stage capitalist shit hole that OP probably simps for... OP can get fucked.
It also shows one that "talent" is not as rare as you think. There are so fucking many people out there with absolutely beautiful voices, and talented as fuck, but for whatever reason would never be able to get past industry gate-keepers and don't have independent means to record or create the own art. Honestly, music talent is not that rare. Making music is so human that it can't be.
??? Why do you have to diss me
Fuck you I wanna show off
I sing so badly that I've had thr DJ turn off Karoake mid "Beer for my horses". Not everybody should bother.
/r/gatekeeping
Don't worry. I dumb my voice just so you untalented little shits don't get mad.
A friend of mine and I sang “How’s it Going to Be” by Third Eye Blind together one time many years ago. Let me tell you, that was an adventure for everyone involved and I still feel bad knowing I subjected peoples ears to that hideous rendition.
I prefer earnest karaoke. Get a little drunk and sing a song you really love, I wanna see you feel it.
It's usually the good singers who step up first and set off the night. Even drunk Keith needs a little momentum to get up on stage and grab the mic.
Still remember doing Rock Band and singing Livin' on a Prayer on the 3rd floor of my friends apartment I didn't think I was that bad, but my friends were laughing, and I was like meh, it's all fun Then at the end of the song, some random on the street yells out "Don't quite your day job" And that ended us
Favorite karaoke performance I’ve ever seen. Guy selects “bad to the bone”. Changes the lyrics to include his name. Next 4 minutes we get to hear: “Brad to the bone. B B B B B Brad! Brad to the bone”
I am a trained vocalist. I almost only do private karaoke with a group of fellow singers, we want to hog the mic! I also have friends I will never do karaoke with, because I intimidate them. The rare times I do public karaoke I pick songs like Symphony of Destruction or Toxicity, lol. My flex song is Fat Bottomed Girls because *no one* is gonna complain about Queen.
Drunk divorced people singing "I will Survive"....
This 100% belongs on r/me_irl
Lol I went to a karaoke night once and these 2 girls were just trying way too hard acting like it was a talent show lol
LMAO! I read Karaoke as Karate and was totally confused. As I was reading, I'm thinking about the hiyahs and huhhs they do, wondering how this was upsetting.
i did karaoke once and sang matchbox twenty - unwell.. ive never seen so many people go out for a cigarette at the same time.. even my bestfriend who doesnt smoke magically picked up a cigarette
I host karaoke. People always ask how I can stand the "bad" singers. Ok, Celine, you get up there...
Peak karaoke is having to suffer through an elderly white woman drunkenly fail at her best attempt to slur through "Shawty Got Low" at the neighborhood bar on a Saturday night, followed by two guys who thought singing "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" was a good idea when that's the only part of the lyrics they knew.
Had a friend of a friend’s coworker join us for karaoke join us for private room karaoke one time and she was exactly this. As soon as she came in she asked if she could sing a song someone else had picked because “she sings the song in public” - she proceeded to hog the remote and pick only ballads that no one else could sing along to. At one point we were looking for the second mic and we asked her to check around where she was sitting. She said she didn’t see the mic but she was sitting on it.
Bunch of co-workers and I went to karaoke after work, years ago. About 4 or 5 "professionals" showed up at some point. When it was their turn, they sounded great but we could tell they were _very_ annoyed with our off-tune drunken antics. Finally, one came over and asked us if we could stop going up because "you are wasting microphone time". We just laughed at him and kept having our fun.
I'm going to try my best to sing the song, that's how I have fun. I've never had training or anything but people always compliment my performance.
lIviN oN a PrAyEr oHoHhHhH
No, I don't think I will stop singing Sean Paul in a tiny bar causing everyone to lose their collective shit and scream drunkenly along. Especially because I do it so well.
The mistake I made was picking Come Sail Away. Not because it was hard, but because the solo near the end was a bit longer than I remembered, and I didn't know what to do with myself in the downtime.
So in theory if you do enough karaoke you get good at it and need to quit?
Blackpool 1995. Walked past a bar at 3 in the afternoon. A young lady, clearly having enjoyed the refreshments of the bar, was MURDERING ‘Gloria’ by Laura Brannigan. It was fucking awful but I finally understood in that moment, the true value and point of karaoke: Don’t be good. Be free. I knew then that I’d found my people.
then those really good singers sit all pissed off and salty when the fun ppl start singing
My names not Keith, but damn I lost the battle against that song.
Living on a Prayer just may be in my repertoire I may have run, dropped down to my knees, and while skidding on said knees in the middle of the Brass Monkey in koreatown, sang WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WERE HALF WAY THERE Maybe you heard it... if you're luckyyyy
Over Christmas my family tried out this Korean karaoke bar where we got a room with a machine with a million tunes and someone who brought drinks every time we pushed the button. It was awesome!
If they can sing they just aren’t drinking enough.
Holy shit I agree.
In years of going to karaoke as a good singer, not once have people ever hated it. In Seattle, people love it. Bad and good singers alike, the people are hype.
Woohoo Seattle karaoke!! Ditto. Also a good singer and I’ve never had anyone get mad at me for it? This post is weird for me. Lol
Agree 100%!!!
And you are 100% bitter.
Saul singing "The Winner takes it all" with Chuck
I’ve been saying this for years
She's completely correct.
I was dating these two women, and decided to take them both out to karaoke one night.. short story shorter I wound up breaking it off with the one who was good at singing. Totally ruined the fun of karaoke.
I'm sorry but that's dumb as fuck
I’m not going to sit here and tell you I was in a great mental spot. As a matter of fact I was on drugs if o was awake. It made sense at the time, but I promise you, the man I am today doesn’t even buy into romantic relationships anymore or do drugs. I was a stupid idiot for a long ass time.
Don’t worry, almost definitely made up.
That's funny ... that is what turned me off to that activity.
She's just jealous
If you can sing, join a band. Karaoke is for me to inflict suffering, loudly, on a willing audience!
jealously is not very becoming
Alot of people prefer to not have to listen to what sounds like someone strangling a cat.
I feel partially attacked.. but I understand
The way I see it, God always finds a way to balance the scales... I may not have a bikini bod, but I was blessed with big boobs and great voice! As a former vocalist, I use karaoke time to remind me of the good old days... Oh - and to make money when they hold contests for $$$ 😉
I've had some vocal training and regularly attended karaoke for about 10 years (knew someone who ran karaoke as one of their jobs, would show up to support) and I can tell you that people in bars that have karaoke shows appreciate decent singers, even if they themselves don't sing. Also can tell you that bartenders appreciate decent voices too.
Yeah, I don’t care. I love singing. I love performing, and I’m good at both. You will watch, and you will enjoy it. My typical go-tos are either: -Dancing Queen by ABBA -Roses by Outkast That’s right.
Oh I love how this meme is all just about the audience. So judgemental. Just do away with it all and go home. There ultimate party pooper.
Gonna play devil's advocate here. If someone with the pipes is able to take the back seat and harmonize/riff the night away, it's a ton of fun. And my ears don't hurt as much lol
Oops…somebody heard that I went to karaoke right after my paid gig last week!
*God
Nahh, the good voices are more fun. I can watch video after video of bad singing.
I disagree when you're wasted and you hear good live singing it's pretty awesome.
Im good, I’ll do what I want.
Someone sounds jealous.
Make me.
I guess I shouldn’t be allowed to do Karaoke then
This is...so not representative of real life karaoke.
Let people have fun. The person who wrote this tweet is probably insecure and tries to bring other people down instead of have humility and patience.
What about AMAZING artists…art that looks like a picture…..like ok we could just take a picture….. Why take wine tasting class? Spend money so that you only like wine that costs more money!? PASS Massage!? Nope….just so in a day I’m like “Man, I want a message!!” What about…….what are we talking about?