@mehcuda67 We learned from Futurama they are watching all our TV signals and like romantic comedies and sitcoms from the last century. Back then when people sang badly, it sounded bad. Now the robots change your voice so it sounds OK no matter what. The League doesn’t allow according to the Entertainment Treaty of 235893.
I almost never have an opportunity to do karaoke. Next time I do, though, I plan to ask for “Wagon Wheel” and sing “Let It Be” over it. Try it, it works!
(This’ll obviously work with any two songs whose chord progressions line up, or, even better, are different but still work with each other’s melodies. But it’s even more impressive if you can find two whose structures are similar enough that you can just take one and paste it directly over the other. Bonus points for extreme stylistic differences.)
@tinamarie1974 that is the draw for many! and i have lots of friends that enjoy doing it and watching others get up there and do their thing. just not for me, i feel intense awkwardness and secondhand embarrassment. it’s literally painful for me.
@jerk_nugget me too, pretty sure your ears would bleed if you were forced to listen to me attempt to sing.
I use to have a group of friends that were extremely talented. I loved going to listen to them, drink copious amounts of beer/tequila, sing along at the table and make fun of the drunks.
Funny story. One night we were watching a “regular” on stage, we called her ET or evil Tina - not a very nice person named Tina. She was fall down drunk and had a strapless dress on. At one point she lifted her arms in the air and her dress fell to her ankles. She stood there proudly, completely naked, smiling at the crowd. Regardless of her singing ability she did get a standing O from the male portion of the crowd!
@tinamarie1974 i have a couple friends that are particularly into it and quite good, they live on the opposite coast from me but i do sometimes sit and watch the videos they post to instagram. i guess it’s that divide between people who are actually good and like to perform, and people that just do it on a drunken whim, haha! i definitely don’t have any qualms about getting tipsy with my friends at a bar or party and singing along to songs loudly, it’s just the one person under a spotlight bit that gets me XD
thank you for the Evil Tina story, i needed a laugh today!
Whether you sing or not, at least try to pronounce it correctly - kah-rah-oh-kay. For extra points, try to use the Japanese R sound, which (to my ears) is kind of a mix of D, L and R.
@mml666 Yeah, but hard to do that as a social event with your friends… unless you’re really close friends. Here, hold my microphone while I lather up. Wait, that’s not my microphone!
In a basement bar in Tokyo, with the local office staff and a customer, where the company buys bottles of Scotch and apparently “hostess” girls come to sit with you (but seriously they just sit and talk, none of that other stuff.) The only time I was ever willing to do Karaoke. I did a duet with my new friend, a Japanese engineer buddy, singing “Country Road, take me home.”
In a bar, in front of strangers. You guys forgot the “while drunk” part.
/giphy drunk singer
By me, never!
Is best performed: not by me.–see above-I guess she beat me to it!
Not at all.
karaoke is best performed …
after the Zombie Apocalypse, when all normal people are dead.
Karaoke is why Earth was not invited into the Leaugue of Advanced Planets.
@mehcuda67 That and selfie sticks…
@mehcuda67 We learned from Futurama they are watching all our TV signals and like romantic comedies and sitcoms from the last century. Back then when people sang badly, it sounded bad. Now the robots change your voice so it sounds OK no matter what. The League doesn’t allow according to the Entertainment Treaty of 235893.
I can do karaoke sober if everyone else is drunk.
@RiotDemon You also get to be the designated driver (which is a good thing, Thanks!)
When in doubt, Bohemian Rhapsody. Everyone joins in. No one hears you. Almost any Queen song will do, really.
@simplersimon my fave to do is Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”
@moonhat @simplersimon I just heard the chorus in my head lol
Where is the “not at all” option?
@arielleslie not there, where it belongs. KARAOKE 4EVA!
Never
@ThatsHeadly gotta get schwifty in here
Only when you sing along with the band at a live show.
/giphy live rock and roll
Has to be Slim Whitman’s “Indian Love Call” and see whose heads explode.
Wow, I thought there would be at least one “Mars Attacks” fan visiting Meh.
Never
We have our own karaoke machine and break it out at family parties. It’s awesome.
And in an effort to reinforce the stereotypes, I married into an Asian family.
In a soundproof room, somewhere at least a thousand miles from my location.
At area 51 along with everything else that society isn’t ready for.
@sicc574 Society is definitely not ready for aliens doing karaoke.
I almost never have an opportunity to do karaoke. Next time I do, though, I plan to ask for “Wagon Wheel” and sing “Let It Be” over it. Try it, it works!
/youtube Wagon Wheel karaoke
(This’ll obviously work with any two songs whose chord progressions line up, or, even better, are different but still work with each other’s melodies. But it’s even more impressive if you can find two whose structures are similar enough that you can just take one and paste it directly over the other. Bonus points for extreme stylistic differences.)
(I used to recommend “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Werewolves of London,” but then Kid Rock went and ruined it for everyone.)
i’m not even sure how much it would cost to pay me to do karaoke or watch others do karaoke.
@jerk_nugget IDK, it is fun to watch drunk people get up and belt out a few tines. Very entertaining
@tinamarie1974 that is the draw for many! and i have lots of friends that enjoy doing it and watching others get up there and do their thing. just not for me, i feel intense awkwardness and secondhand embarrassment. it’s literally painful for me.
@jerk_nugget me too, pretty sure your ears would bleed if you were forced to listen to me attempt to sing.
I use to have a group of friends that were extremely talented. I loved going to listen to them, drink copious amounts of beer/tequila, sing along at the table and make fun of the drunks.
Funny story. One night we were watching a “regular” on stage, we called her ET or evil Tina - not a very nice person named Tina. She was fall down drunk and had a strapless dress on. At one point she lifted her arms in the air and her dress fell to her ankles. She stood there proudly, completely naked, smiling at the crowd. Regardless of her singing ability she did get a standing O from the male portion of the crowd!
@tinamarie1974 i have a couple friends that are particularly into it and quite good, they live on the opposite coast from me but i do sometimes sit and watch the videos they post to instagram. i guess it’s that divide between people who are actually good and like to perform, and people that just do it on a drunken whim, haha! i definitely don’t have any qualms about getting tipsy with my friends at a bar or party and singing along to songs loudly, it’s just the one person under a spotlight bit that gets me XD
thank you for the Evil Tina story, i needed a laugh today!
Whether you sing or not, at least try to pronounce it correctly - kah-rah-oh-kay. For extra points, try to use the Japanese R sound, which (to my ears) is kind of a mix of D, L and R.
In the shower
@mml666 Yeah, but hard to do that as a social event with your friends… unless you’re really close friends. Here, hold my microphone while I lather up. Wait, that’s not my microphone!
@pmarin Talk about “making love” to the microphone…
in a place i never, ever, even accidentally, plan on visiting again.
@tomdina I was going to say “in my absence”. Some of the sentiments above like “never” or “not at all” seem un-necessarily tyrannical IMO.
@tomdina Or possibly there is still a warrant out for you in that Jurisdiction?
Cold
Prior to Y2K.
@rtjhnstn Yeah, it was. In my post below about Tokyo bar, yes, now that I think about it, ‘twas back in the ol’ century, '98 or '99.
Never. I have no interest in hearing someone else’s bad singing.
In a basement bar in Tokyo, with the local office staff and a customer, where the company buys bottles of Scotch and apparently “hostess” girls come to sit with you (but seriously they just sit and talk, none of that other stuff.) The only time I was ever willing to do Karaoke. I did a duet with my new friend, a Japanese engineer buddy, singing “Country Road, take me home.”
Anywhere I’m not.