I love karaoke and have spent years painstakingly crafting and empirically testing a list of perfect tracks. These are those tracks.
EASY (low-effort crowd pleasers):
Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus
Cool by Gwen Stefani
Hand in my Pocket by Alanis Morissette
Torn by Natalie Imbruglia
INTERMEDIATE (either stylistically harder or easy but requires moxie):
Laid by James
I Touch Myself by the Divinyls
Cherry Bomb by the Runaways
Common People by Pulp HARD (requires moxie and technical skill):
Hook by Blues Traveller
Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind(If you pull off Semi-Charmed Life in a public karaoke setting, you are potentially about to fuck the most bitches that anyone has ever fucked. Personal note: I can run this track start to finish without so much as GLANCING at the lyrics..)
BONUS: I'm So Tired by Fugazi. In my opinion, this is the funniest karaoke track ever. Play it really straight.
i performed this in sunglasses at my 80's new wave birthday party & now my friends have requested repeat performances of it at other parties so I guess it is my go-to!! I also enjoy doing Bring Me To Life by Evanescence because it's hilarious to try to sing both parts. I have to stay away from Rock Lobster because my friend and I yelled it so loud that the cops showed up at my door :/
I’m biased bc I’m a huge Hall & Oates fan, but I think it’s one of the greatest karaoke songs on the planet. It‘s under 3 minutes, so you won’t be up there uncomfortably long, there’s no awkward instrumental break, and it‘s one of those songs you don’t have to sing particularly well to still have fun!
For the past couple of years, I have collected a haul of photos of celebrities eating pizza in pizzarias. I was going to make a zine with all my favs (Kevin Spacey at Joes, The Kardashians at Prince Street, Paul Giamonte at Champion Pizza, etc.), but it has since turned into an obsession of mine. Some people catch Pokemon, I collect photos of your fav stars with my fav pizza guys.