r/karaoke

A song that would nearly bring you to tears with how it resonates with you and that person, a song that really shows they SEE and UNDERSTAND you.

Currently mine is Beautiful Crazy by Luke Combs

Doesn't have to be accurate. Just need something we can compete on while at it for extra shenanigans.

I’m a fan of karaoke, and I’ve only been to a few places but my friend really likes 1 bar that has a DJ who seems to take his “mixes” seriously (has a mix board) and is suppose to be putting on karaoke but he seems almost bothered by us. His equipment is not good for karaoke, mics are wildly different and speaker distortion almost makes me want to plug me years. Seems meant for bass and his music (he also plays music videos on the screen for the karaoke lyrics).

I’m trying to convince my friend he’s not really a KJ and we should go to bars that have people who care about karaoke and not their own mixed music but like to sing themselves maybe. I wanted a general discussion and see how I can convince my friend to stop going to this bar !!

Any chance the KJ will humor me and allow me to “sing” the “cha cha slide”? What if it’s for my birthday?

It really bugs me when someone decides that they’re going to grab the other microphone during someone’s karaoke song just because they really like the song that the person is singing. Enjoy it from the audience. They signed up to sing the song, not you. Stay in your lane.

Some of the popular songs in the Netherlands
Natasja beddingfield - unwritten
Acda en de Munnik - Het regent zonnestralen.

What was that perfect song at the perfect time moment you have that will live in your memory forever?

I'm a big weezer fan, but I was wondering if a couple songs would be cool to sing at a gay bar. Gay bars really are the most forgiving crowds I've seen for karaoke. So I would like to do hash pipe and or pink triangle, but as a I wouldn't want to make a place that's meant to be inviting for everyone uncomfortable. What are your feelings?

Hey all! So, I love karaoke and even though I’m someone with anxiety one of my favorite hobbies is main stage karaoke at my local dive bar.

I’m a good singer but the part I really struggle with is my anxiety/confidence/stage presence, whatever you want to call it. Even during my favorite songs that I know back to front. I’ve tried, and I’ve watched and admired people with great stage presence but I have no clue how to emulate it. I don’t want to swing in the opposite direction because it just wouldn’t be true to me, but I know it’s visible (I have known that it’s visible, but someone also mentioned it to me last night as feedback so now i Know it’s visible). I know it just comes naturally to some people, but surely there’s a way to learn it, my nervous system just won’t comply.

Has anyone else overcome this? Any tips?

Because tonight I a very white girl in a diverse city and venue sang Crazy He Calls Me by Billie Holiday after doing some postmodern jukebox and Doris Day. And afterwards was badgered by a white guy in the bar for a good ten minutes about how I should do Strange Fruit.

I have questions to use tools and apps that will allow to build Karaokes from the songs of my choice, is there a way to get paid tools to do this. Dont want AI based tool, but something i can control and edit or seperate the Audio, Track, Video seperately and embedd the Lyrics to my track and build Karaoke track for my singalongs... suggestions pl

I’ve got a smart tv at home, and im looking for mics that can connect to the tv wirelessly or thru wireless usb plug in for a casual youtube kareoke setup. Any suggestions?

I bought a JBL Encore Essentials 2 with a pair of JBL Partybox mic for Karaoke. My voice sounded “robotic” when I first tried it. I turned the mic’s echo to 2 (0-12 scale), bass +2 (-6 to +6 scale) and treble 0 (-6 to +6). It improved a bit and it seems like the only way to make my voice sound less robotic is if I put my mic at least 12+ inches away. Is it just my poor mic technique? The limitations of my gear?

Ok, so I've been going to karaoke bars for the past maybe 4 years now, this one specific spot for 3 of them. At this spot there is a Karen that's a daytime regular there, and I mean she's a Karen to the T, haircut, entitlement, alpha energy, good looking, everything.

I'm a nighttime regular cause I'm a chef, so if I run into her its usually because she's been there all day so you can fill in the blanks on her state when I do run into what others would say is a sweet girl when she first gets there. What I deal with when I get there is something different. When I get there and she sings, and she had been a habitual violator of this, she either gets distracted by her friends or basically sings half the song, either way its not a good performance and you're hoping she calls it for the night on the singing at least.

So one-night shes bombing a good song, and I give her a playful Michael Scott boo, not expecting anything but maybe a small slap or something playful, that was not the case. She blows up at me, those within her wrath are looking like, wth is going on? I'm just a puzzled as they are, but I let her rant, figure she was having a bad day and let it go.

A week or two passes and I run into her again, I show up on a Saturday and head straight for the KJ and she makes a B-line for me, like a GF whose found out her BF cheated on her. She continues the same rant from weeks before not missing a beat and Im just puzzled. At this point though the bar and many of her friends are starting to come to her side and asking what did I say to her. I'm thinking I'm gonna get my ass kicked, but I tell em I just sarcastically boo'd her a couple weeks prior. You should have seen the confusion on their faces. Anyway I avoid certain death but she's not done with me. And this is where the rivalry starts.

For the next couple of years every time I run into her maybe once or twice a month she's talking smack and or yelling in my direction. If I talk to other women at the bar, she immediately follows right behind me and talks all kinds of smack about me like some smear campaign. I just react with behavior, I don't react to her, I don't engage her, I mind my business. And this is how it goes for 2-3 years.

I still have no clue why she hates me so much, over a simple booing? I find out later one friend of hers approaches me after I endure a thorough staring from the Karen and accuses me of associating with an ex BF of hers who apparently treated her terribly. This is the first time I've ever heard of this, they don't tell me who he is and I only talk to maybe a couple people at this bar, none of which I know were associated with her. I don't know her besides exchanging Hi's once in a while before the rivalry started, let alone her dating history. Then on a July 4th after singing a song, Karen comes over, gives me a hug, complimenting my song choice and said she still hasn't forgiven me for what I said to her. I say " What are you talking about?", she then says I stood 3 feet from where we were on the night of the initial incident and said she deserved to be abused by her ex Bf. Again this is news to me, I don't know anything about this woman and why in the world would I wish anything so horrible to a person.

I'm sitting there baffled as those few seconds of peace was basically the eye of the storm and I was right back into the hurricane with that question. At this point I'm George Costanza and I'm enamored with the fact this woman hates me so much and I don't understand why. I talk with another regular whose the only one who talks to both me and her and he tells me he asks her about the state or our situation to which she refers to the rival " the relationship is rocky but tolerable". What relationship??? I tell him I don't talk to this woman.

I finally talk to another one of her friends and ask why she hates me so much, he tells me sometimes she just makes up stories to get mad at people, she'd done it to him in the past but I still see them hanging out. At this point I guess I'm dealing with a nut job but I'm also wondering is there more to this, is this a thin line between love and hate scenario.

I finally confront her about the situation, I approach her at the KJ booth where she's talking with the KJ and I notice her immediately kinda standoff-ish and kinda subservient and before I could say anything she says " I'm sorry". Wait what? "I'm sorry", and she repeats it a couple more times. It was like she realized what she been doing the last couple of years was wrong. Clearly I was in the right and never said anything to her, because, to those reading this, if anyone ever truly said what I had been accused of you'd never deal with that person ever again.

Anyway after the talk I told her, I'm glad we're cool again but I kind miss the rivalry we had. I kinda got off on the idea of her hatred towards me.

My question to anyone, I'm I wrong for thinking there was something there, were there feelings or is she crazy?

Happy singing. Dont forget to tip your KJ's

I’ve been wanting to sing “Jesus of Suburbia” by Greenday (a roughly 9 minute song) at karaoke for a long time, but I’m aware of general rules around song length at karaoke events.

However, at the same time the crowds at the karaoke events I go to are almost always people who either love and would love this song and Greenday (it’s widely considered their best song).

I’ve been listening to and singing along with their American Idiot album for easily 17 years, so I know I can make it fun, and the song is not at all repetitive, having multiple “movements”.

The few times I have felt brave enough to submit it, I have also submitted a shorter song as well, in case the host does want to bother with it.

I don’t know exactly what I’m hoping to get out of posting this, maybe just get some outside perspective on how you would feel if someone were to sing this song at a karaoke event.

Sorry for the long rant! Thanks for your advice in advance!

(PS I will be the first to admit I’m an attention whore, but I at least don’t want my attention-seeking to ruin other people’s enjoyment)

TL;DR would it be annoying if I went up and sang a 9 minute song like Jesus of Suburbia?

Location: California

we have this idea of doing a karaoke booth, $1 per song, at our church festival... parish council loves the idea... i started digging into licensing, etc, but it seems sooo overwhelming... we have a mechanical license for projecting hymn lyrics on the wall via OneLicense, but the karaoke requirements seem to be a different animal altogether... can we use YouTube or do we need to go a different route? Thanks in advance!

A few friends and I went to a newishly established karaoke night at a bar last week. Friday night and the bar only had a quarter capacity, it was not busy. However the people that were there, most were looking to sing. We noticed after our songs, but still on the same rotation, our waitress, bartender and even one of the BoH workers got a chance to sing. It didnt bug us at first but after the 12+ person rotation (includes the host), we noticed it wasnt a one off, the staff were in regular rotation for the night.

We didnt complain or gave feedback but it did bother us that the staff was included. I could understand if the bar was dead, the staff being included would make sense but putting the rotation to 12 or more people felt inappropriate.

I'm wondering how all of you feel about this