Round one karaoke song list how to#
What I lack in technical ability I will make up with pure camp, miming the “silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload” line, seizing the song’s many opportunities for audience participation (those handclaps, the call-and-response chorus), emoting as though I’m singing The Most Important Song In The World on parts like “there are no reasons, what reasons do you need to be show-oh-OH-WHOA-OWN” and of course, milking that dramatic pause after “school’s out early and soon we’ll be learning and the lesson today is HOW TO DIE.” Then, like The Boomtown Rats themselves, I will fade away quietly, but those who were there to witness it will ask each other for the rest of their lives, “Remember that time Bonnie did karaoke?” But I know in my heart that one day the stars will align and with the perfect amount of booze flowing through my veins-enough to help me pull off an overwrought New Wave song about a school shooting from 1979, but not quite enough to give me alcohol poisoning-I will step up to a mic somewhere with the confidence of a Canadian tuxedo-clad Bob Geldof at Live Aid and do “I Don’t Like Mondays” by The Boomtown Rats. Once you take that away, something short-circuits in my brain, and the pitiful warbles that come out of my mouth are pretty embarrassing for everyone involved, so karaoke is not something I’ve ever done, save for a few private performances in front of friends and family I know will still love me even if I sound like a dying animal. I will happily sing along to pretty much anything-in the car, in the shower, at my desk…it doesn’t matter, as long as that lead vocal is there to guide me to the right key. You know that scene in The King’s Speech where we learn that all King Colin Firth needs to do to overcome his debilitating stutter is pop on a pair of headphones and let the music drown out the sound of his own voice? That’s basically me and singing.
The Boomtown Rats, “I Don’t Like Mondays” Own your Fredness, and those three and a half minutes will fly by. Fred Schneider’s range is about three notes. The stage is less frightening when you’re not on your own, and in this case the girl will carry the load. That’s why I recommend that guys who don’t think they can sing grab a girl who can for a duet-specifically “Love Shack” by The B-52’s. Not everyone has that traditional karaoke voice. We all weighed in for this week’s Playlist Project prompt… What’s your go-to karaoke song?
All that matters is that it’s your moment to shine. You’ve mastered all the corresponding dance moves-whether they were created by the artist or by yourself isn’t important. You’ve memorized the lyrics and have every enunciation and pause down pat.
We’re talking about the song you know like the back of your hand. But everyone has their secret weapon song, the one that they pull out when the timing is just right. The shy and reluctant ones who require mass amounts of liquid courage, the overly enthusiastic ones who should probably bring it down a notch or two, the mind-blowingly talented ones who you had no idea could sing like that. Welcome to The Playlist Project, where we’ll be posing musical questions to Paste staff, interns and writers and then compiling their responses into a handy playlist before opening it up for discussion in our comments section.
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