karaoke

Escape (the pina colada song)- Rupert Holmes
Girl just wanna have fun- C. Lauper

I never thought I would be the type to try karaoke but my friends introduced me to this karaoke place that is similar to the kind that are in Japan. They had private rooms for groups of people and nice couches and disco balls in the ceiling. I didn’t know everyone there but it was a lot more private than some bar. After a while people got really into it and we made some great memories.

This would not be on my list if it weren’t for the fact that I am a horrible singer… I know I cannot sing. I will very likely be booed off the stage but what is life without a little humiliation, right?

OH KARAOKE IS MY FAVORITE. Could be because I sing :) But, I like to act like I cant because that is always more fun.

I have a severe fear of performing by myself, let alone I shudder at the thought of even singing in front of people. My sister in law and some of our mutual friends have Rock Band and the opportunity’s come up for me to sing and each time I’ve declined.

This Thing is one more step I need to overcome in building my self confidence. Hopefully I’ll be able to soon =)

I did it in public for the first time at some tiki-themed place in Portland, Oregon. I sang “Shoop” by Salt n Pepa. It was amazing.

Ive never done this, and definately want to try it! I think it could possibly be one of the funnest AND funniest things ever.

I think its just that I’m seriously deathly afraid of it…. just about at much as I am of heights!

Well i’ve sang about 13 karaoke song seperiences. So I’m crossing this off as accomplished but I still want to keep karaoking. that’s awesome good stuff. I even did one LIVE karaoke with a love band and VERY fun crowd. That was most nervous of all because there’s basically no difference from that and singing in a rock band! (there’s no electronic karaoke follower, no prerecording) it’s all real. So that’s awesom and DEFINITELY it’s a test of your confidence and fear-challenger, which is great! I like dancing a lot, too. Both of those test your limits, but dancing I think is something more natural for me, but singing is definitely worth doing. I definitely hope to keep this up in the long run to just jump into karaoke, and it’s challenging and VERY good stuff.

I love music; I love rock; I’ve never learned how to play any instrument except a few keyboard songs, minimal harmonica, and “vocals”, so this is the closest thing I can think of with rock. Here’s the run down.

Bush.Comedown—Awesome song
Bush.Glycerine—Awesome song
vvvAerosmith.LoveinanElevator—Completed
vvvDef Leppard.Poursomesugaronme—Completed
BenFolds5.Landed—Might be hard to find in karaoke books
REM.Endoftheworld—a lot of lyrics, will have to practice this one
Eagles.Hotelcalifornia
Animals.Houseofrisingson
RollingStones.Beastofburden—Awesome song
RollingStones.Jumpingjackflash
Otisredding.Sittingonthedockofthebay
Searchers.Shakeitupbabynow
Nickelback.Howyouremindme
Eagles.Desperado
Soundgarden.Blackholesun

Implementation. Obviously, if I got some practice in before, I’d feel more confident singing these, but really, this would only take 1-3 nights (4 songs/night) or a crazy line-up of 13 songs, but that would be like an actual hour-long performance, so doing this one night sounds HIGHLY unlikely; 3 nights is even ambitious.